Municipal Registers Updated for
Elections in Cuba
Cuban Minister of Justice
Roberto Diaz Sotolongo evaluated
as satisfactory the process of
updating municipal electoral
registers Monday, in statements
to the local press.
Diaz Sotolongo stated that for
the municipal elections starting
on April 17, members of
electoral commissions will go to
their respective areas to visit
their voters and directly
contact them, starting February
15.
Diaz Sotolongo, president of the
National Electoral Commission,
said these visits will correct
any error or omission in the
voters" primary registers, and
give information on the
citizens" rights.
The process has been on for
several weeks. Thousands of
members of the municipal
commissions are working in the
initial updating of the voters´
lists.
No Cuban citizen with the right
to vote must be out of the
lists, which will be showed in
public places, starting on
February 15, and groups of
specialists work on the agility
for necessary data, to choose
the members of the municipal
government organizations. Cuba
will automate its electoral
processes for the first time
since the installation of the
government system by the
People"s Power took place in
1976. This will ensure a
permanent register of voters in
the country, in a near future,
said Diaz Sotolongo.
"Also, it will permit to update
the lists, quickly, which will
be a step forward in our way to
perfect registers for citizens
with the right to vote," Diaz
pointed out.
He highlighted the effort of all
the involved people in the
process, who are not paid for
their work, and explained that
in Cuba, no citizen needs to
make any step to be inscribed in
the voters" lists since
electoral registration is an
official act in the nation.
When automatization in Cuban
elections starts, Cuban
inhabitants will know it is not
about susceptible machines with
programs to make a fraud, just
like it happens in other
countries of the world, Diaz
concluded.
Dominican Republic Drug
Trafficking Ring Dismantled
The Drug Control National Board
(DCNB) arrested 11 members of
the International drug
trafficking ring in which the
airport security agents were
participating, reported Monday
the Dominican anti-narcotic
unit.
The entity announced that 33.4
kilos of cocaine were seized and
the detention of
11drug-traffickers including a
minor who received rapid
protection, but she will be
questioned.
The DCNB spokesman, Bueno Torrez
confirmed that other three
members of the Airport Security
Specialized Body (ASSB) involved
in smuggling are fugitive.
Torrez noted that 30 packages of
drugs were also found in the
luggage of a sudden French woman
when she was boarding the plane
to Europe.
Researches on drug trafficking
route pointed out, according to
thesis, that most of the
Dominican drug go to Haiti.
The burning issue was discussed
this morning by doctor Marino
Vinicio Castillo in his Monday´s
comment at the TV program "Hoy
Mismo" in which he denounced the
officials and agents complicity
with drug trafficking.
According to Haiti traffic map,
from 30 to 40 Colombian families
control packing and dispatch to
the European countries and
United States, DCNB specialists
commented.
Other members of the state
bodies are involved in drug
trafficking like Ernesto Rivera
Alcantara and David Pascual
Sanchez, both members of ASSB
and who were expelled from the
system, referred the note
broadcast this morning.
Other two people arrested are
members of the Airport Service
Servair S.A. Company.
However the DCNB announced it is
investigating members of this
organ in San Francisco de
Macoris involved in another drug
trafficking action in which a
woman was killed.
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President of Colombia recovers
from ear problems
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
has recovered from his ear
problems, but over the coming
eight weeks he will have to use
an auditive protection device
each time he boards a plane,
officials said on Monday.
Last Thursday, Uribe suffered
from "labyrinthitis," an
inflammation of the internal ear
which causes vertigo, nausea and
vomit, and was forced to
postpone his trips to Venezuela
and Europe.
Uribe will stay in the coastal
city of Cartagena, north
Colombia, while doctors prepare
his auditive protection device.
The Colombian leader planned to
hold a private meeting in
Caracas with Chavez to put an
end to the diplomatic crisis
triggered by the disputed
capture of the so-called foreign
minister of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),
Rodrigo Granda.
After the visit to Venezuela,
Uribe was going to Madrid to
meet with Zapatero and to Paris
for a meeting with his French
counterpart, Jacques Chirac.
Venezuelan jail riot kills four
Four people were killed and 14
injured in a jail riot Sunday in
central Venezuela, a local daily
reported Monday. Most of the
victims suffered gunshot and
grenade shrapnel wounds.
The riot broke out between two
bands of inmates inside the Los
Teques prison, located in the
central state of Miranda, while
they were receiving visits of
relatives, the El Universal
daily reported.
It took four hours for the
National Guard to control the
riot, the paper said.
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