Month: April 2012

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez leads the intention of voting for elections of October in Venezuela, but can not neglecting millions of undecided voters who make their current advantage of 13 points is far from being short, according to details of a survey disclosed on Thursday. The same day in which returned from Cuba after radiotherapy treatment to fight cancer he suffers, also was ratified on October 7 as the date that will be measured with Henrique Capriles, the single candidate of the opposition, in what analysts anticipate as closely fought elections. “Is a hard battle (…)” “I’m fine and will continue well” said an animated Chavez on his return to Venezuela on Thursday morning to refer to their health. “I have resisted very well treating, thank God.” “Still recovering me from my post operative,” added. Cancer, appealed once Chávez entrusted have defeated after operations and chemotherapies last year, has forced him to the Socialist leader to maintain an intermittent in its Government presence and cut the pace of his career to extend for six years over the 13 in power. “I have reduced the speed, but the Government has accelerated,” said Chavez who keep traveling in power while it comes and goes to Cuba for treatment. The military retired 57-year dismissed the impact of his illness and says constantly to “barrerá” to its rival, the young Governor...

Paris, 30 mar ( EFE).-the Mexican Susana López Charretón, distinguished with the award L ' L’Oreal-UNESCO for women and science, today stressed his intention to take advantage of this visibility to urge the authorities of his country “more support” to research. “Require a lot more investment”, noted in a telephone interview with Efe López Charretón, awarded for his work on rotavirus, which performed at the Institute of biotechnology of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Lopez Charretón pointed out that “the award is much pride sample” and da “much visibility”, which proposes to use to “draw attention” from the Government on the situation and the needs of researchers in Mexico. Also hoped that advertising is doing its work serves to make”people aware” of the problem of the rotavirus that affects children under the age of two years around the world and causes some 360,000 deaths, largely in poor countries where there is more difficulty to use health services. Is above all identify this disease, whose symptoms are “a very severe picture with vomiting and diarrhea” to whom “what needs to be done is to take the child to the doctor” and above all “none of home treatments”, pointed out. The key is to treat the child in time because otherwise this rotavirus which is housed in the cells of the intestine can cause death. Recalled that there is a...

Havana (Reuters) – the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba this week marked another milestone in the cautious efforts of the Catholic Church to increase its role in the Communist island’s Government. The Cardinal of Havana, Jaime Ortega, called it “a spring of the faith”. Although it is not clear if the three days spent the Pope in Cuba will change something, or how it could do so, analysts agree that any notion of “Cuban”Spring”in terms of political change is still away. Still, the papal visit seems to have cemented the growing influence of the Church in Cuban society and politics, a change potentially positive in the balance of forces in the Socialist country. “The Catholic Church in Cuba has taken a greater role.” “For the first time there is a direct dialogue with the Government, which has to do with national politics,” said Philip Peters, expert in Cuba and Vice President of the Lexington Institute, who was present at the mass on Wednesday in Havana. “The Church is pressing for greater and deeper economic reforms.” “And also for a political opening,” he added. The Church hopes that the journey of the Pope will help mainly to revive faith in Cuba, where the religion was stigmatised for decades after the 1959 Revolution. Nevertheless, the Church, although very diminished, he survived and remains the largest and most influential outside...

sao Paulo, 30 mar (EFE).-the former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva compared the treatment received against the cancer of larynx with “a bomb of Hiroshima”, in an interview published today by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. “I think that it is the most sensitive disease.” It is sweeping. “I came with a tumor of three centimeters and suddenly received a Hiroshima bomb inside me,” said exgobernante in allusion to the sessions of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which doctors have removed cancer. After being diagnosed with cancer last October 29, Lula was subjected to chemotherapy until December and then passed by 33 sessions of radiation therapy, which concluded at the end of February. Oncologists serving it announced Wednesday that noted “the absence of the tumor” with an MRI and a laryngoscopy. In the interview, Lula said that he still has “very sore” throat, prevents him to eat normally, especially hard foods. Former President said that “if he had lost the voice, he would be dead” and defined as “a medroso” which is very frightened to death, despite being religious. Reiterated its intention to return to politics, to work with some candidates of the workers party (PT) in the October municipal elections and to support the head of State, Dilma Rousseff, in his work of Government and its likely claim to re-election in the presidential elections of 2014. However,...

MADRID, 30 ( EUROPA PRESS) Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group ( PPE) and MEP Jaime Mayor Oreja, has stressed Thursday the importance of upholding the right to life of the unborn “from the dominant fashion in Europe” and has asked the organizations ' provida ' will that not be embarrassed out to defend “a value shared by many thousands of Europeans”. So has indicated it during a meeting of European associations of the life of the unborn, which was held in Brussels under the motto ' we resignamos not in defense of the unborn ' and that it has been sponsored by a group of several members from different political groups and thirty organizations from 22 EU countries have been involved in that. Thus, along with the promoters of the initiative, Jaime Mayor Oreja and the Italian MEP, Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, Carlo Casini, involving Polish MEP and also Vice-President of the PPE Group, Jan Olbrycht, Italian Mario Mauro, Miroslav Mikolasik and Anna Zaborska Slovaks; the Czech Zuzana Roithová, Hungarian Laszlo Surjan, Slovene Alojz Peterle; Germans Martin KaslerPeter Liese and Bernd Posselt; Polish MEP of the conservative and reformist European (ECR) Konrad Szymanski group and the liberal group (ALDE), Hannu Takkula. Finnish “It is an unpublished meeting by the dimension of the organizers and the dimension of the summoned and behind it...