Debt Reduction

As President, I will do my best to advance the ideals of a free economy, challenging the ideological pendulum different within Latin America, Martinelli said in reference to left-wing governments which are predominant in the region. Martinelli, 57, was sworn in and received the presidential sash from the hands of the Congress president, Jose Luis Varela, vice president and brother of the new foreign minister Juan Carlos Varela. This rich businessman

right thus became the fifth president of Panama after the U.S. invasion of 1989 and replaced in the social power to Martin Torrijos, who ended his term with a high degree of public approval.

In these five years, we have to demonstrate how our economic model and government can be an example to all those seeking prosperity and progress, Martinelli said first speech as president.

vice Varela and I are two businessmen who have entered into politics to change the way of doing things. We will take our experiences in the private sector and make them work where they have never been seen in government he said.

promised further the state bureaucracy and eliminating corruption. The habit of politicians who put their personal interests the village was completed. The game of having a government and a fat skinny people have come to an end. Theera of politicians who come clean and come out millionaires is over, he said.

In my government can be put up. But you can not put your hand, said Martinelli, endorsing a phrase that had spoken before other Latin American rulers. Read the rest of this entry »

In a telephone press conference about the reunion, the number of the Nuclear Safety Council in the White House, DenisMcDonough said that Iran will be a central issue in cadaetapa. In Specifically, he referred to the recent statement by Foreign losministros the G-8 which expressed lapreocupacion by the developments in Iran, following eleccionesdel last June 12, which is officially proclaimed winner alpresidente Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, despite protests by the opposition, and about the nuclear program of that country. In this regard, McDonough said that Obama is very contentodel role Russia played in this declaration. The U.S. President will depart for the proximodomingo Moscow, where he arrived on Monday to deal with the Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, on the pact to reduce armamentonuclear which two presidents agreed to try to close prior to defin years. The two leaders, who closed the meeting with a press conference will also address, according to the White House, a wide range of issues, including missile defense in Europe, the program nuclearnorcoreano or the situation in Afghanistan. In Moscow, U.S. President previstopronunciar also has a speech at an economic research center on relations between the U.S. Delàs and Russia and meet with variaspersonalidades the world of economics, politics andthe media. Also will the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

8 days, the president will travel to Italy, where they remain in Rome a series of meetings with autoridadesde there before traveling to L #39, Aquila, the city ravaged by unterremoto last April and which will host the G-8 summit. Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON (Reuters) – The reserves are so hard to get into El Bulli the best restaurant in the world that even its chef, Ferran Adrià, one can not get to friends within a short time.

Open only six months a year, El Bulli, located in the town of Rosas Girona, on the coast of Barcelona, is booked months or years in advance, although the menu costs about 30-40 dishes 300 euros ($ 415) per person.

Adria said that even a Nobel prize call to reserve a table, could only make a dent in the establishment of 50 seats if there are cancellations. And these are few. If you had a reservation and could not come, what would you do? Said Adria of 46 years at Reuters in an interview. Call a friend and you say #39, I have a reservation at El Bulli #39;. So if this is what happens, we have no cancellations, he added.

Voted the best restaurant in the world four times, according to surveys of publication Restaurant Magazine, El Bulli serves small plates, each of which is presented with delicacy and is the result of months of culinary experimentation. Some call it molecular gastronomy.

Adrià and his team of 70 people use ingredients such as liquid nitrogen, centrifuges and precision scales to create hot jellies, baked fruit and innovations such as melon caviar. The plates are designed to entertain as much as for food, and some are deliberately provocative. A wafer angelic appearance called Milk power made with the flower of Sichuan pepper, send a similar shock to the tongue to lick the two poles of a battery. Never in your life you have experienced this feeling in your mouth said Adria. A new book reveals that the experience shows that many diners find a provocation too. In Food for Thought , Food for Thought , the journalist Bill Buford said his wife has almost left the restaurant after the unexpected sensation of the Sichuan pepper in the mouth. almost burned tongue , he said at a discussion table of critics who had been invited to eat at El Bulli. Read the rest of this entry »

Viareggio, Italy (Reuters) – At least 14 people died during the night when a freight train carrying liquid petroleum gas derailed and exploded when it passed near a village in northern Italy, officials said on Tuesday. Nearly one thousand people were evacuated after the explosion, which occurred around midnight on Monday, pulled out of their beds to people who lived near the railway station in the town of Viareggio, situated about 350 kilometers Rome, on the coast of Tuscany. More than 30 people suffered serious or very serious injuries, and many are in critical condition. Among the dead were three children. We were going to sleep when my daughter smell gas and hear the explosions. We went to see from the terrace and saw the windows broken out, everything was bursting , Roberta Marcelli said. It was an apocalypse. oliamos All gas and burning things and saw the flames, said one survivor of the Italian television.

DESAPARECIDOS

The body of a woman was found during the last hours of Tuesday, bringing the death toll reached 14. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a press conference that four people were still missing under the rubble of a building destroyed by the explosion, adding that the figure of dead could rise. Read the rest of this entry »

Chauvin, charged with having sex with one of the treshermanos Ostaiza, weaving a network accused of drug trafficking in the country, left the prison this afternoon, Garcia Moreno, Quito, cheered by supporters of the Brigade Simon Bolivar, the leftist group to which it belongs. The defendant walked several streets of the city to the headquarters of his movement in the center of Quito, accompanied by suscorreligionarios. Last Friday, the first Civil Chamber of the Superior Court dela province of Guayas (Guayaquil is the capital) accepted the recursode habeas corpus filed by the defense and ordered Chauvin susalida of jail.

However, Chauvin had to remain in prison until today, because the warrant had not come to the unit in place to handle elhorario release.

On 10 June, the defense sought Chauvin recursode habeas corpus arguing that his client was in the irregularly shaped lacarcel. This demand, which tends to compensate or make reparation and lainocencia the dignity of a human being idealistic, as IgnacioChauvin is unjustly in prison, said then Raul Llerena, suabogado. Read the rest of this entry »

Sri Lankan police arrested a well-known local astrologer Chandrasiri Bandara predicted imminent resignation of President Mahinda Rajapakse. According to the head of state has already deprived the post this fall. September 9, the President will take place the current Prime Minister Ratnasiri Vikremanayake, and its government headed by opposition figure, said Bandara last week, speaking at a rally the opposition.

about the future fate of Rajapakse in the prophecy did not mention, said with reference at The Times InoPressa.ru . On Wednesday evening arrested unguardedly astrologer to determine the source predictions , said the publication, with reference to the press service of the Sri Lankan police.

Astrologers use in the island nation great influence, the Rajapaksa himself once admitted that he often consults with the astrologer friend, when delivering a speech, or to travel. Read the rest of this entry »

The Council, as the principal organ of SICA coordinaciondel rejected the perversion of the legal framework, seeks to justify lascuales rupture of constitutional order ydemocratico of the Republic of Honduras.

The Council met in the building of the Foreign Ministry in Managua, Nicaragua to be temporary president of SICA, after conocidolos events in Honduras.

President Zelaya, who was arrested Sunday by militaresy taken against their will to Costa Rica, where his alleged kidnapping, will attend the emergency meeting of SICA in estacapital, informed the government of Nicaragua spokesman, RosarioMurillo. The regional body also condemned the arrests illegal against members of the Cabinet and other government authorities in Honduras and demanded their immediate start enlibertad and respect for physical integrity. The body and alluded to how they were treated enTegucigalpa ambassadors of Nicaragua, Mario Duarte, Cuba, Hernandez Juancarlos and Venezuela, Armando Laguna, moreover, lacanciller Honduran Patricia Rhodes. The Council, in his special unknown cualquierpersona or group of persons of illegitimate and espuriapretenda installed in Honduras, a product of this attempt at constitutional rupturadel, which promote certain sectors esepais. Read the rest of this entry »

The announcement was made few hours after asu brother reproached for having obtained government contracts and after haberordenado to all state institutions that have agreed withthe which nullify the agreements. Last night, in a message to the nation, Correa reproached his hermanopor obtaining public contracts, which has uncovered a arduapolemica and has been taken as a hobbyhorse in laoposicion against the Government. The scandal, skipped two weeks ago, when the newspaper business that Expresorevelo public Fabricio Correa exceeded 80millones dollar operations that the agent did not know. It has not yet been able to determine a single losmencionados illegality in contracts and, if after the investigations hemossolicitado the control bodies were to estableceralguna, rest assured that all will be punished with rigorde law, the president said yesterday.

recalled that his Government proposed the amendment in public decontratacion law, passed in July 2008 to be prohibaa public institutions that contract with brothers delPresidente, which in the past it was allowed.

The president acknowledged that the amendment stated that only contracts with seprohibia natural persons, ie comosujetos, but did not as legal persons, representanteso business partners. Read the rest of this entry »

The agreement came after the secretary general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said the two sides acknowledged that it was time to make joint efforts against Afghan insurgents, the drug trade, Somali piracy, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. When asked by a joint press conference whether NATO and Russia had reached agreement to rebuild the partnership, an alliance official who asked not to be identified told Reuters, Yes. Many ministers, meeting on the Greek island of Corfu, is to be an informal review of the European Union ties with Iran for its repression of post-election demonstrators of the opposition, and a meeting of the largest group of security and human rights in Europe to address the tensions between the West and Russia fueled by the conflict in Georgia. Read the rest of this entry »

The director of resources and emissions RNE, Miguel Angel Coleto, that are planned over the next six months lasprimeras evidence in one of the four transmitters that ubicadosen the town of Cariari, Costa Rica in the Caribbean, specifically the issuing American North. Coleto said that the broadcast digital Delson improves quality and prevents the emission factors, such as orographic losclimaticos or the harm. The center of Cariari, a station that broadcasts laprogramacion foreign NLOs developed in Madrid, is in hermanagemela Noblejas (Toledo), where there is a plant that offers the same service in English, French and Spanish for the rest of the world. Coleto explained that since Noblejas already begun to successfully the first evidence in digital and broadcast unaprogramacion of four hours per day in Central Europe. NLOs takes 19 years in Costa Rica and retransmits elcontinente for almost everything American, from Chile to the United States. The correspondent NLOs in Costa Rica, France Seville, Efeque told at the time of construction of the center (1991) acosta Rica was chosen because it was the only country in the area that was not enguerra and also has a location in the center delcontinente and the town of Cariari, because it is a flat area, sinmontanas, which favors the spread of the issue. Read the rest of this entry »