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WORLD NEWSFriday 15 January 2016
Stranded Cuban migrants make plans to cross Mexico
C. SHERMAN early Thursday at a hotel in received the paperwork the U.S., said most of their issued transit visas granting
MARIA VERZA the southern city of Tapa- needed to transit Mexico. countrymen had spent the them 20 days to leave the
Associated Press chula, said he and his cous- “It was all really fast. night in shelters in Tapachu- country.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nearly in Alexei Oliva were head- la and planned to continue Sergei Acosta, a 35-year-
200 Cuban migrants who ed to the airport there to They (Mexican immigra- north by bus. Oliva said he old farmer, was the first of
recently arrived in southern buy plane tickets, hopefully tion officials) were well pre- left Cuba on Oct. 27, flying the Cubans to set foot on
Mexico after being strand- for Friday, to the border city pared with a team there first to Ecuador where he Mexican soil.
ed several months in Costa of Matamoros across from waiting for us. It’s a bless- worked for a time to save He said he was elated de-
Rica began making plans Brownsville, Texas. ing,” Rivero said. “It was money to continue. spite a long night of travel
on Thursday to travel to Rivero, a 27-year-old trying a beautiful thing to know On Wednesday, the 180 by plane from Costa Rica
the border with the United to reach Orlando, Florida, there are so many people Cubans descended one to El Salvador, and from
States. said Wednesday’s travel supporting us.” by one from chartered bus- there by bus through Gua-
Migrant Manuel Rivero Oli- had gone smoothly and His cousin, Alexei Oliva, 28, es and were processed by temala to Ciudad Hidalgo
va, reached by telephone that in about an hour they who planned to travel to Mexican authorities, who in Mexico.q
Michigan once they reach
Uncertainty in Guatemala as new president takes office
SONIA PEREZ D. Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernandez, left, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, second left, contingent on their efforts
Associated Press Guatemala’s President-elect Jimmy Morales, second right, and El Salvador’s President Salvador to reduce migration to the
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Sanchez Ceren pose for photos during a meeting in Guatemala City, Thursday, Jan 14, 2016. U.S. and the factors driving
TV comic and political Biden and the Central American leaders are on a one day trip to attend the presidential inaugu- it. Morales has yet to say
neophyte Jimmy Morales ration of Jimmy Morales. who will make up his Cabi-
was being inaugurated as net, and he already suf-
Guatemala’s next leader (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) fered one political setback
on Thursday amid uncer- when prosecutors formally
tainty over how he plans portation and allows them the country is suffering from that forced President Otto asked for the equivalent
to run the Central Ameri- to work and travel. an armed conflict or natu- Perez Molina and his vice of impeachment proceed-
can nation beset by en- El Salvador and Honduras ral disaster that makes it dif- president from office. ings against an allied law-
trenched poverty, ram- already have the status ficult to receive its citizens. Last year, the U.S. Congress maker suspected of hu-
pant corruption and vio- known as TPS. It is usually Guatemala has been be- approved $750 million in man rights violations dating
lent criminal gangs. granted in cases in which set by corruption scandals aid to the three countries to Guatemala’s civil war.
United States Vice Presi- “He is a president who
dent Joe Biden met with takes office without a par-
Morales and the leaders ty, without well-qualified
of El Salvador and Hondu- people he trusts and with
ras before the swearing in a state apparatus that’s
Thursday. Biden congratu- really in financial and in-
lated Morales for his com- stitutional ruin,” said Ed-
mitment to fight corruption. gar Gutierrez, an analyst
He noted that thousands at San Carlos University in
of Guatemalans had gone Guatemala.
into the streets to demand Morales won office in a
change and elected Mo- runoff Oct. 25 after huge
rales to do the job. anti-corruption demonstra-
Morales petitioned Biden tions. Perez Molina and his
Thursday to add Guate- vice president are behind
mala to the list of countries bars and facing prosecu-
granted temporary pro- tion, and the outsider’s tri-
tected status, which pro- umph was seen as a pun-
vides its eligible citizens in ishment vote from an elec-
the U.S. a degree of tem- torate that wanted a fresh
porary protection from de- break. q
Officials: 3 US volunteers killed in Honduras bus crash
FREDDY CUEVAS istry morgue in Honduras, and development missions, institution that is affiliated crash took place on a high-
Associated Press said the dead were three posted a notice on its web- with the university and is lo- way east of the Honduran
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras American women aged site saying the accident cated just steps away from capital, Tegucigalpa. Of-
(AP) — Two New York col- 20, 21 and 45. Their identi- involved a bus transport- its campus in upper Man- ficials reported that the
lege students and a U.S. ties were not immediately ing “Columbia University hattan. “Our heartfelt sym- bus was traveling from the
health-care worker died released. Twelve more students and other volun- pathy goes out to all those town of San Juancito when
Wednesday in this Cen- Americans were injured. teers,” and that those killed affected by this tragedy,” it veered off a road and fell
tral American nation when Reinaldo Canales, admin- were two students and a said the Global Brigades at least 260 feet (80 meters)
their bus crashed while tak- istrator for the Valle de An- health care professional. statement, attributed to co- into a ravine. Firefighters’
ing them to the airport to fly geles Adventist Hospital, Columbia later issued a founder Steven Atamian. spokesman Capt. Gustavo
home after a volunteer mis- said they were in stable statement saying the ve- Phone messages left at the Barahona said the crash
sion helping poor Hondu- condition.U.S.-based Glob- hicle was also carrying organization’s headquar- was believed to be the re-
rans. Isa Alvarado, spokes- al Brigades, which orga- students from Barnard Col- ters in Seattle were not im- sult of mechanical failure.
woman for the Public Min- nizes international health lege, a women’s liberal arts mediately returned. The q
