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WORLD NEWSTuesday 22 September 2015
Regional Briefs Cuba:
Colombia offers For one family, pope’s message on ideology hits home
reward in Dutch CHRISTINE ARMARIO each other. 14 hours to Holguin, arriving ried and having four chil-
tourist’s murder Associated Press As Pope Francis called on at 6:30 a.m. dren through letters, stories
HOLGUIN, Cuba (AP) — In Cubans to overcome their Fernandez and Olga Maria and photographs. Fernan-
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) this quiet city in eastern differences at a Mass in Saladrigas screamed when dez has kept all of them.
— Colombian authorities “It pains me,” Fernandez,
are offering a $10,000 re- Berta Luisa Fernandez, left, and her son, Daniel Jose Pupo Fernandez, reunite with cousin Olga 54, said. “But since they
ward for information about Maria Saladrigas, and her husband, Carlos Saladrigas, in Holguin, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. send us so much love, that
a Dutch tourist’s murder After Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, Saladrigas’ family decided they disagreed with the country’s fills me. I know they are
on a yacht off the coast new socialist system and fled to Miami. Fernandez’s father backed the revolution and decided there and that they are
of Cartagena. The navy they would stay. The cousins reunited for the third time in 50 years. well.”
found Durdana de Bruijn’s Fernandez’s house is filled
body over the weekend Cuba, families know how Holguin on Monday, the they saw one another, kiss- with items sent by relatives
aboard the Dutch-flagged ideology can divide. cousins reunited for the ing and hugging before living abroad: A flat-screen
Lazy Duck following an After Fidel Castro’s 1959 third time in 50 years, a liv- Fernandez made her cous- TV from her brother in the
emergency cellphone call revolution, Olga Maria Sal- ing example of the recon- in a typical Cuban break- Dominican Republic, a flo-
from her husband. He said adrigas’ family decided ciliation that the pope has fast of coffee and toasted ral chaise from Saladrigas.
six men had tried to rob they disagreed with the made a central theme of bread and butter. Fernandez would like to
them and she was hit with country’s new socialist sys- his trip to Cuba. “We love each other very visit the U.S., but said she
the butt of a gun. Authori- tem and fled to Miami. Her Saladrigas and her hus- much,” Fernandez said as has no plans to leave per-
ties have cast doubt on cousin Berta Luisa Fernan- band, Carlos, a Cuba- they embraced. manently. She takes care
that account and are hold- dez’s father backed the American businessman Fernandez watched nearly of her 86-year-old mother,
ing de Bruijn’s husband for revolution and decided who has been one of the all her relatives leave in the Saladrigas’ aunt, who is
questioning. Navy Capt. they would stay. The two key backers of U.S.-Cuban years after the revolution. now blind.
Jorge Herrera said Mon- women grew up with only detente, flew to Havana for She learned of her cousin As Olga Maria and Carlos
day he can’t remember a a handful of memories of the pope’s visit, then drove growing up, getting mar- drove to the pope’s Hol-
recent report of piracy in guin Mass, she cried as she
the area, near the popular looked out at the city of
Rosario Islands. Valuables about 300,000 people.
such as computers and “That’s where I used to ride
jewelry were found on the my bike,” she said, pointing
boat. The Dutch Embassy to a plaza near her cousin’s
in Colombia declined to home.
comment.q In his homily, Francis pressed
some of the themes he has
Jamaica leader developed during this visit,
touts record of 9 telling of how Jesus picked
good IMF tests a despised tax collector,
Matthew, as a follower
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) without casting judgment.
— Jamaica’s prime minis- That experience of mercy
ter has told supporters that changed Matthew forever.
her administration passed Francis told Cubans that
every test of the Interna- they, too, should allow
tional Monetary Fund dur- themselves “to slowly over-
ing the island’s latest loan come our preconceptions
agreement. At the annual and our reluctance to think
conference of the People’s that others, much less our-
National Party, Prime Min- selves, can change.” q
ister Portia Simpson Miller
touted the record of nine Ex-treasurer of Brazil sentenced on corruption
passed tests while calling
the terms of the IMF deal RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Also sentenced was Peto- Vaccari’s arrest in April Petrobras executives. In re-
“challenging yet neces- former treasurer of Brazil’s bras’ former head of cor- brought the Petrobras turn, the companies were
sary.” She acknowledges governing Workers’ Party porate services, Renato scandal closer to President awarded inflated con-
employment rates are “not was sentenced Monday to Duque, who got over 20 Dilma Rousseff, who served tracts for building refineries,
yet where we want them over 15 years in prison for his years on corruption charg- as chairwoman of Petro- drilling platforms and ships,
to be,” but says Jamaica’s role in a kickback scheme es. Moro said that Duque bras’ board for several among other services.
economy is moving in the at state-run oil company was responsible for funnel- years as the sprawling kick- Described by authorities
“right direction.” The op- Petrobras. ing the cash to Vaccari back scheme is alleged to as the biggest corruption
position disputes that. Ja- Joao Vaccari was found and that he had also taken have played out. She her- scheme ever uncovered
maica has been trying to guilty of taking at least $1 at least $9 million in bribes in self has not been accused in Brazil, the scandal has
turn around its economy million in bribes, including exchange for helping con- of any crimes and has re- shaken the nation’s politi-
with a four-year, $930 mil- money handed over in the struction and engineering peatedly maintained her cal and business establish-
lion package with the form of campaign dona- firms win inflated contracts innocence. ment. Over 50 sitting con-
IMF. In recent decades, tions made by oil field ser- with Petrobras. Prosecutors say at least $2 gressmen and other top
Jamaica had one of the vices company Toyo Setal Both men can appeal their billion in bribes were paid political officials are under
world’s slowest growing between 2008 and 2012, sentences, but will remain for over a decade, mostly investigation, including the
economies.q according to the ruling by in prison as their likely ap- by construction and engi- leaders of both houses of
federal judge Sergio Moro. peals play out. neering firms to high-level Congress. q
