Month: April 2012

Tegucigalpa, 24 mar ( EFE).-the Permanent Commission of contingencies ( I Copeco) forecast today rainfall for the last days of Holy week in Honduras, although the first four of the period will be much Sun. Sunday 1 to Wednesday, April 4, the days will be sunny, but the rest of Holy week are recorded rainfall of mild-to-moderate, indicated the Copeco said in a statement. Rainfall will be felt in most of the Central American country, where the winter is expected to begin between 15 and 20 May next. Currently, Hondurans are living the warmest season of the year, with temperatures that could reach up to 42 degrees Celsius, mainly in the South, according to reports of the Office of Civil Aviation forecasts. During the season dry some regions, including the covers to Tegucigalpa, the capital of the country, are affected by drastic rationing of water and forest fires, which so far this year have consumed more than 2,000 acres of forest. During Holy week, it is expected that more than two million Hondurans, a quarter of the country’s population, mobilized to different tourist sites in greater numbers to the beaches and other resorts of Caribbean, as well as to the South, in the Pacific, as envisaged by the Honduran Institute of tourism. The Government announced last week that civil servants will have rest throughout Holy week, as a measure...

. Soils and plants adjacent to roads and routes are also affected by the emissions of cars. Chemist José Antonio Carrero of the University of the Basque country ( Spain) found in an investigation as longest route running worse is the State of the land adjacent. ″Depende of how long the route has been using. In the older routes metals accumulate more and the concentration gradient can be seen in the depths that reach the contaminantes″, details the expert. To arrive at such conclusions Carrero took samples of the land adjacent to very busy routes and recorded how long had enabled these roads. Some carried 60 years in operation, while others wore only a year. The specialist extracted metals in samples and determined the type and the amount they were beside each road. Although the lead is one of the most feared metals, Carrero said that there are other metals even more dangerous for the environment for various reasons, and filter down to the deeper layers of the Earth. For example, in his study he analyzed the presence of oxide of zinc, barium, copper, and antimony, among others. Carrero stressed that the barium and zinc should be monitored very of fence. ″Son issued as a result of wear on the tires and brakes, and accumulates in the form of rust in the upper floor. However, they react with the...

Caracas, 24 mar (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chávez, today traveled to Cuba to start radiotherapy treatment a month after surgery in Havana of a cancerous tumor, recurrence of cancer for which he underwent in June of last year. Chavez returns to the Cuban capital just a week after returning to his country from Havana, where he spent 21 days recovering from an operation which had its removed a tumor of two centimetres which turned out to be cancerous and which only reported that he is in the pelvic area. In addition, the Venezuelan President traveled to the Cuban capital on the eve of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island. “now I’m going to Havana to continue working but above all and first of all for the full recovery of my health; I ask God, the God of the armies and armed (…) and the will to fight and live that we all, and I have, everything goes well,” said Chavez at Maiquetia airportthat serves to Caracas “Come back in a few days,” he added, noting that radiotherapy is charged several days and then will take a break, “so I’m going to be going and coming”, he said. The representative, that this afternoon a mandatory radio and television chain reported that this treatment will take between four and five weeks, said that “it is possible” that some...

Washington, 24 mar ( EFE).-the American former Dick Cheney received a heart transplant and he is recovering from surgery in a hospital in the State of Virginia, according to a statement released by his Office today. “Although the former and his family do not know the identity of the donor, will be always grateful for this gift”, explains the release. Cheney also expressed its appreciation to medical professionals Inova Fairfax and the hospital of the George Washington University for his “continuing care”. Who was Vice President under George w. Bush (2001-2009) mandate has suffered several attacks to the heart in the past and lived with a heart pump from surgery which was submitted in July 2010. Was on the waiting list to receive a heart transplant during more than 20 months. Last year saw the light the latest book by Cheney, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir” (“in my times: personal and political memories”), which has its relationship with Bush and other members of the Government, at the time that defends controversial measures, such as the simulated asphyxia to interrogate terrorism suspects. , Keeps the defiant tone that characterizes it and does not show remorse on many of the most controversial decisions that were taken during the Government of President Bush, who says he was an “extraordinary leader”. The book also reveals that Cheney Yes advised Bush...

(corrects figures in paragraphs 13 and 16) Caracas, 24 mar (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chávez, today traveled to Cuba to start radiotherapy treatment a month after surgery in Havana of a cancerous tumor, recurrence of cancer for which he underwent in June of last year. Chavez returns to the Cuban capital just a week after returning to his country from Havana, where he spent 21 days recovering from an operation which had its removed a tumor of two centimetres which turned out to be cancerous and which only reported that he is in the pelvic area. In addition, the Venezuelan President traveled to the Cuban capital on the eve of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island. “now I’m going to Havana to continue working but above all and first of all for the full recovery of my health; I ask God, the God of the armies and armed (…) and the will to fight and live that we all, and I have, everything goes well,” said Chavez at Maiquetia airportthat serves to Caracas “Come back in a few days,” he added, noting that radiotherapy is charged several days and then will take a break, “so I’m going to be going and coming”, he said. The representative, that this afternoon a mandatory radio and television chain reported that this treatment will take between four and five weeks,...