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When successfully accomplished without the deadline set by President Obama to dismantle Guantanamo, a commission led by the Justice Department has formalized its recommendations on what to do with the 196 detainees who remain in jail makeshift court by the Bush Administration. For fifty of them, provided for indefinite detention without trial while continuing the so-called war on terror launched after 11-S.

This is the first time Washington has clarified the exact number of Guantanamo prisoners considered too dangerous to be released at the same time without the possibility of being judged. Limbo procedure justified by the need not to jeopardize the work of intelligence or because the available evidence have been obtained through coercion.

Along with the controversial option of indefinite detention-complicated by the refusal of the federal Congress to recreate a U.S. Guantanamo within-the committee headed by the Justice Department has also recommended that a total of 110 prisoners be released immediately or in the future. Delays attributed to the chaotic situation in Yemen, a country of origin of a good part of this whole prison population. The rest, 35, be prosecuted on charges of terrorism or war crimesEither in civilian courts or by special military courts

With decades of struggle for human rights under his belt and a newcomer to Madrid to speak at a conference organized by the General Council of Lawyers, Shirin Ebadi spoke to ABC this upheaval in Iran.

“Your country is engaged in riots against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How is the situation?
“The protests are growing and have gotten as small cities. In addition to that every day there is more activism and more strikes in the factories, people no longer afraid. They know that if they go out could end up in jail, yet they still do. And the government loses popular support by the day. Even among the fundamentalists there are differences …

- What solution is there?
“The only is that another election be held with UN observers. That election must be completely free and involve release of political prisoners.
“You and your family are suffering repression firsthand. Do you feel more persecuted than ever?
“I have no political office, not belong to any party and I do not name the Prime Minister. But being a human rights activist can not remain indifferent. And I give to other organizations reporting on the human rights situation in my country, that the wrath of the Government of Iran. Months before the election ended the human rights NGO founded and assaulted my law practice.

“The regime has acted against his sister and her husband.
“What we are doing is harassment for them which in turn will convince me that I stop what I’m doing. My husband has been detained in jail and my sister as a hostage, when neither are activists. My husband is an engineer and my sister dentist.
“No favors economic sanctions or military intervention in Iran. Maybe because he thinks the solution must come from within?
“That kind of measures can only worsen the situation and giving ammunition to the Government to radical. Any change must come from within Iranian society. All that we ask the international community not to support the government in the crackdown, and the important thing is that the world knows what is happening in Iran.

“Barack Obama shares with you the status of Nobel Peace Prize. Can there be accredited deserve in less than a year as president?
“No doubt the performance of President Obama is much better than Bush. A president can not be able to change all that must change in a year, but has made some important first steps. Do not forget that the first day in office ordered the closure of Guantanamo. Or who has declared that military intervention in Iraq was a mistake. Just for that I am worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

- Islam and democracy?
“Islam can be interpreted consistently with human rights, and reject those who use religion as an excuse for violating them.
- What do you think the Alliance of Civilizations promoted by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero?
“It’s a good project for psychology tells us that when we do not know the other what we fear and hate him. The solution lies in dialogue, but the important thing is that this exchange is given in all areas: among journalists, athletes, clergymen and writers.

- Do you see the commitment of adequate some in the West to banish the veil?
“I do not wear veils. In Islamic countries like Iran require women to wear the scarf, and women do not want. And in countries like France and Germany forced the woman to take it off, and she does not want. Do not understand why not let women do what they please. Rejection decisions taken with bigotry or prejudice.

The “23 de Enero”, emblematic date the fall of Marcos Perez Jimenez, the last dictatorship in Venezuela defeated 52 years ago, was celebrated today by some against President Hugo Chávez and others for in Caracas. Each side vied to show higher turnout among their ranks, but television cameras showed the mass rallies paths, both Chavez and the opposition, the final decision rests with the protesters.

The best way to measure participation in each gear is engaged, no matter the ideological color to which it belongs, and see the differences on each side. In Caracas is not as difficult to reach a conclusion for the reader. The opposition in attendance outnumbered the ruling-three to one, if you compare the two performances on the street.
If opponents said it took between 350,000 to 500,000 protesters as the panoramic views of the ruling say they outscored the opposition with a vengeance. However, the official television cameras showed footage always closed and never along the avenues of its travel.

The Venezuelan capital was divided into two extremes with very marked. On one side, west of the city was a territory of the officer, whose departure from the Flag and New Granada came to the central Plaza OLeary of Silence, about 3 to 5 miles.
The opposition, however, ordered his journey from Las Mercedes and Plaza Venezuela to lead on Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Chacao, Altamira, Parque del Este, La California, Los Ruices and end up in the vial (round) of Petare. That adds a distance of 17 kilometers.

Opponents took several slogans, including the main “Chavez Ponchao tas” in the language game of baseball means “you’re defeated.” The second, conceived by filmmaker Thaelman Urguelles says the blame of the child “showing the president in diapers and getting rid of the responsibility of the energy crisis.
The opposition was large and well nourished. The eleven games that bring together the officers of the unit also called the march of the student movement and the civil sector. They had every reason to protest: currency devaluation, bank intervention, expropriation of supermarkets and shops, rationing of electricity and water, and insecurity.

Instead Chavez participants are public servants who were forced to attend the official launch with the “blackmail of not paying the salary if they were not going to fly”. Hundreds of officers took buses to the demonstration activists Chavez.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel in his uniform from red cap said “the engine of 23 January was the PCV and the oligarchy took over democracy. We can not allow the same thing happen again. ”
Minister of Public Works and Housing, Diosdado Cabello, said “We are on the street saying Chavez, our commander that this is the power of the people. In the parliamentary elections of September 26 and win “.

An hour and a half before finishing the walk, as at 12 noon sectors The California and Los Ruices Avenue Francisco de Miranda, 300 meters from the roundabout Petare, already crowded with opposition demonstrators.
The metropolitan mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, “the opposition unity is above all. United we will move forward. We see a positive change in spite of government benefits.

The former governor of Miranda, Enrique Mendoza, predicted that the next 26 d September, the date of parliamentary elections “we will succeed.”

At Plaza Altamira opposition demonstrator said, “nothing in this country works. Let’s throw out the votes Chavez. This government has failed at everything. ”

Enrique Mora said he was going to mark the death of Spanish Maritza Ron, who was gunned down in the Plaza Altamira for demonstrating against Chavez last 5 years.

Before closing the walk in the rotunda of Petare, Carlos Ocariz, mayor of Sucre, the former stronghold until Chavez in 2008 snatched the opposition said the opposition demonstration was spontaneous. “There were no buses or blackmail to come as Chavismo.

Following the first year of Barack Obama in power, the U.S. black population has gained pride and self esteem as well as in the preceding 25 years. That is clear at least from a survey of the prestigious Pew Research Center, under which African Americans no longer see themselves or are viewed by others as the most discriminated ethnic group in North America.

That “honor” is now Hispanics.
Some 23 percent of 2884 adults (including 812 blacks) surveyed by the Pew Research Center, between 28 October and 30 November 2009, believe that Hispanics are the most discriminated group in America. A 18 percent that are still considered black. A curious fact is that 45 percent of all Americans surveyed, and 55 percent of blacks believe that no race or ethnicity is as discriminated as homosexuals.

Positive developments in the vision of black people and their situation are mostly among the black population itself, with which the present economic crisis has been primed. Even in these circumstances are becoming more blacks who think they can fend for themselves in the U.S. and tend to look blurred the barriers with other races.

Not that everything is no longer black and white to turn pink. Forty years after the great wave of struggle against racial segregation and civil rights, 8 in 10 blacks are generally less satisfied with their lives than whites and believe that further changes are needed to achieve full or least reasonably equal. But 39 percent believe that their life is better than five years ago, only 20 percent believed that in 2007 - and 53 percent believe their lives will be even better in the future, compared with 10 percent who believe that will be worse. In 2007 only 44 percent expected future improvements for blacks, while 21 percent expected that any further deterioration.

Some 54 percent of blacks, compared with 32 percent of whites believe race relations have improved with Obama. These figures are very positive but not as satisfactory as those were the day after the election when they said that 74 percent of blacks and 48 percent of whites.

Values similar
But perhaps the most telling indicator is that more and more blacks tend to see a convergence of their values and way of life with those of whites. That’s the opinion of today 6 of every 10 blacks. This represents an increase of almost 20 points since 2007.

With the fall of racial barriers come doubts about identity. What is being targeted and what is being black in today’s society, so mixed that the president himself is a mestizo? About 55 percent of blacks surveyed believe Obama black, whereas 34 percent is of mixed race. Among whites the proportion is reversed: 53 percent considered of mixed race and 24 percent black.

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, accused the Supreme Court to give “a blow to democracy ‘to the ring last Thursday, the contribution limit that is allowed to contribute to the companies during an election campaign, to protect, according to opinion, the right of corporations to freedom of expression.

This decision comes just two days after Obama threw down the gauntlet to U.S. banks, announcing, with great fanfare, a reform to limit by law the size of large financial institutions and restrict their activities at risk.
“I see record profits for some firms then say they can not lend more money to small businesses, lower fees credit card or return the ransom money they received from the taxpayer, “said the president, has warned that while”If they want to fight, will’.

For Bush, the Supreme Court ruling “opens the floodgates for the entry of an unlimited amount of money from special interests in our democracy,” he said. Thus, Obama said, he “gives lobbyists more reasons to spend millions of dollars in advertising, so that elected representatives vote in favor or to punish those who do not.

“This ruling is a blow to democracy itself,” the president said in his weekly address.

U.S. election campaigns in 2008, with the presidential head, spent about 6. 000 million dollars. Of these, more than 1. 000 million came from lobbyists and other private organizations.

The Supreme Court decision “will make it harder to pass the legislation guided by common sense because even foreign entities will be allowed to interfere in elections,” he said.

In reply, Obama announced the preparation of measures in collaboration with Congress to get a response “and bipartisan forced” to the sentence. “We started working on it, and will be a priority to repair the damage,” he said.

Development Minister, Jose Blanco said Saturday that Galicia will have the first Committee of Air Routes of Spain, which will aim to “harmonize” the operation of the three airports of the community and improve their “efficiency”, making “compete with their immediate environment “instead of” each other. ”

The constitution of this committee is formalized in an agreement signed by the holder of Promoting Regional Minister of the Environment, Territory and Infrastructures, Agustin Hernandez, the mayors of Santiago, Vigo and A Coruña, the president of the Confederation of Employers of Galicia ( CEG), Antonio Fontenla, and representatives of chambers of commerce of those cities.

“We can not stand at a time unless we act, others we can take advantage,” declared the minister Lugo after heading the paper, convinced that “the amount of effort” between the government and civil society this new body will “establish and consolidate” new air “according the needs and potential” of Galicia.

This new model of “institutional strengthening cooperation,” according to advanced, is completed by a Royal Decree that the central government approved “before summer” to implement in all the autonomous airport committees. In Galicia, as White moved will be given “priority”, so that could be in place “before the end of the year.”

AIRPORT COMMITTEE

More associated with the operation of airports, these committees will be the forum where debate - communities and the state represented equally - matters “of interest” in the field of management such as directors and strategic plans and coordination of urban policy and territorial affect air bases.

As explained by the Minister of Development, the purpose of these bodies is to try to airports as “economic hubs” to Galicia, as they are elements “energizing” for tourism and trade, among others.

DRIVERS

In line with this, the state leader opted to go “the way of efficiency and rationality.” At this point, he realized that it is necessary to “better use” of resources.

This will create a corporation that manages the airport area, which helps ensure its state character “economic efficiency” and “general interest” linked to “strategic value” of airports for Galicia and Spain.

Roots in the “rationalization” of costs at airports and air navigation, as detailed Blanco, the forthcoming adoption of “structural reform” of the navigation service. “Bringing the cost of control to the European environment and implement a new management system, airport traffic,” he said.

4.5 MILLION FOR LOW COST

For its part, the Regional Minister of Environment, Territory and Infrastructures celebrated “understanding, cooperation and understanding” between the Galician Administration and state and the business sector for the implementation of the new committee.

In addition, Jose Blanco coincided with the need to manage three airports Gallegos “in coordination” with the aim of improving their “accessibility” above “localism sterile. “The millions of pilgrims who arrive in Galicia should be able to return from any of the three terminals of the community,” understood.

At higher, used to highlight the increase in aid by the Xunta up to 4.5 million euros to support low-cost airlines. “Tourism will improve with the new services,” he said, convinced that this economic injection will be particularly important during the Holy Year.

“One can only progress when you think big, you can only move when you look away,” proclaimed the paraphrase Regional Minister Jose Ortega y Gasset, to conclude by noting that the firm with the Ministry of Development is “the beginning of a journey” by “improvement” of Galicia.