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Thursday 19 November 2015

Search continues for 2 in Nicaragua helicopter crash

LUIS GALEANO Police, soldiers, doctors and 1997, and her son-in-law. lose and there is an intense caraguan pilot and Ameri-
Associated Press local residents searched He later was executive di- search involving rescue can Phil Wendell Tope
MANAGUA, Nicaragua along the San Juan river rector of Centro Empresar- authorities, the family and of Tampa Juice Service
(AP) — Nicaraguan au- in southern Nicaragua for ial Pellas, CEO of TicoFruit locals.” Deputy director Inc. “We’ve been work-
thorities continued search- Antonio Lacayo and a and a business consultant. of Nicaragua’s national ing since 4 a.m. searching
ing Wednesday for two U.S. citizen. Lacayo was “We have hope that they police Francisco Diaz on for the other missing, we
people, including a former presidential minister in the are still alive,” said Pedro Wednesday told local tele- can’t confirm or deny their
government minister, who government of President Joaquin Chamorro Barrios, vision network Canal 8 that deaths while we don’t re-
were aboard a helicopter Violeta Barrios de Cham- Lacayo’s brother-in-law. they had already recov- ally know what happened
that crashed into a river. orro between 1990 and “Hope is the last thing you ered the bodies of the Ni- to them,” Diaz said.q

Migrant detentions in Mexico up 73 percent since 2014

Central American migrants wait atop the freight train they had been traveling north on, as it previous 12-month period, in unaccompanied child
and activists said the crack- migrants arriving at its own
starts to rain after the train suffered a minor derailment outside Reforma de Pineda, Chiapas down has been accompa- southern border. Many
nied by rising crimes and were Central American
state, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) abuses against migrants — children fleeing violence in
including by security forc- their home countries.
PETER ORSI ment of an operation to advocates. The study es. “The Southern Border The Washington Office on
Associated Press shore up security on its found that about 168,000 Program has been a huge Latin America, or WOLA,
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mex- southern border, accord- migrants were detained in success for (the govern- a U.S.-based advocacy
ico detained 73 percent ing to a study released Mexico from July 2014 to ment), of course. The num- group which helped pre-
more migrants in the first Wednesday by human June of this year, up from bers, they trumpet them pare the report, said the in-
year since the announce- rights groups and migrants’ some 97,000 during the with great pride,” said To- creased enforcement has
mas Gonzalez, a friar who “worrying implications” for
runs a migrant shelter in human rights.
Tabasco state. But “I think Activists said the crack-
for us it must be the great down has led migrants
failure of Mexican society to abandon established
and the Mexican state in its northward routes such as
responsibility to our Central the train known as “the
American brothers.” Mexi- beast,” and resort instead
can Interior Department to riskier, clandestine av-
officials referred questions enues such as traveling
to the National Institute of by foot or sea. That makes
Immigration, which did not them more vulnerable to
immediately respond to a becoming victims of as-
request for comment. sault, kidnapping, rape,
Mexico launched its South- extortion and other crimes
ern Border Program in the that have been common
summer of 2014, a time for many years along the
when the United States was migrant’s trail toward the
experiencing a large spike United States.q

Congressional vote hands Brazil pres. much-needed victory

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — of the country’s already val, Speaker of the House represented a triumph for politicians as well as the
Brazilian President Dilma handsomely paid judiciary Eduardo Cunha, aimed at Rousseff, who is fending heads of some of the
Rousseff scored a much- by over 50 percent, cost- undermining her adminis- off calls for her impeach- country’s biggest construc-
needed victory on Tues- ing an estimated $9.5 bil- tration and its attempts to ment. Critics have blamed tion firms. Rousseff has not
day when Congress up- lion over the coming four restart a Brazilian economy Rousseff for the nosediving been directly implicated in
held her vetoes on con- years. Supporters of the bill mired in recession. Rous- economy, which is expect- the scandal.
troversial spending bills the staged boisterous protests seff’s victory late Tuesday ed to contract by around House Speaker Cunha is
embattled leader insisted during the late-night joint came by a narrow margin, 3 percent this year, and among those under inves-
the country could ill afford. session of both houses of with the government’s sup- also for the mushrooming tigation. He is also the sole
The bills included a pro- Congress. The bills were porters barely securing the corruption scandal at the lawmaker able to open im-
posed wage hike that widely regarded as political votes they needed to bury state-run oil giant Petro- peachment proceedings
would have raised salaries maneuvers by Rousseff’s ri- the proposal. Still, the vote bras, which has ensnared against Rousseff.q