Posts Tagged ‘Mexico’
Written by admin on 01 May 2012
Rio De Janerio, May 1 (IANS) Fluminense midfielder Deco has said Brazilian football is suffering from an unhealthy obsession with individual talent.
Deco, 34, stressed the fact that Brazil risks falling behind other countries if it fails to change its youth system to focus more on team play, reported Xinhua.
‘However much talent we’ve had here, Brazilian football has always been about touch and passing but unfortunately I think that’s coming to an end,’ Deco told FIFA.com Monday.
‘The prevailing attitude here now seems to be the idea that individual talent alone is the solution to every problem and that having one or two superstars in your team is enough to see you through.
‘I don’t think we’re doing the right things at youth level. I get the impression that people are more concerned with winning titles than they are with developing complete players.’
Deco has been in superb form so far this season, helping Fluminense to Sunday’s Carioca Cup final against Botafogo.
The Brazilian-born former Portugal international is also hoping to add a Copa Libertadores title to his Champions League medals with Porto (2004) and Barcelona (2006).
Fluminense only needs to win their return match against Internacional at home May 10 to advance to the quarter-finals of the competition.
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Written by admin on 01 May 2012
Bogota, May 1 (IANS/EFE) Popular Puerto Rican salsa singer Andy Montanez was injured Monday in an accident in Colombia after giving a concert in the city of Valledupar, one of his representatives reported.
Montanez suffered “some minor injuries” and was admitted to a medical clinic in the town of Fundacion, his representative in Colombia, Alvaro Gomez Cuartas, told Caracol television.
The salsa singer was traveling from Valledupar to Barranquilla along with eight members of his musical group, including his son Harold Montanez, when the vehicle’s front tyre blew and the driver lost control.
The vehicle went off the road and crashed into a tree, Montanez’s representative said.
“They were rather battered with the crash, but they’re not very bad injuries,” Gomez said.
The artist was returning to Barranquilla from a concert he had given in Valledupar while on a brief tour of Colombia.
–IANS/EFE
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Written by admin on 01 May 2012
Mexico City, May 1 (IANS/EFE) About 170 children and six adults fell sick after having food at a party at an elementary school in the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco, authorities said.
The children and adults were treated at different hospitals over the weekend, the Guerrero state Health Secretariat said.
The tainted food was apparently served during the Day of the Child party held Friday at Juan R. Escudero Elementary School in the Los Organos section of Acapulco.
Partygoers ate barbecued meat, spaghetti, green sauce and cake, Guerrero Health Secretary Lazaro Mazon said, citing information provided by parents.
No one is in serious condition, but doctors said patients had diarrhoea, vomiting, high fever, headaches and dehydration.
The food served at the party is being analyzed and results are expected Monday, health officials said.
Media outlets reported that more people had become sick after attending the party, with Acapulco’s El Sol newspaper putting the number at some 400.
Officials, however, have not confirmed the higher numbers.
–IANS/EFE
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Written by admin on 30 April 2012
Bogota, April 30 (IANS/EFE) Colombia plans to invest 1.3 trillion pesos (about $738.13 million) in housing programmes “for the poorest of the poor”, which it is adding to the plan to provide 100,000 homes free to the most vulnerable among the population, President Juan Manuel Santos said.
The president explained his housing strategy in his so-called “Agreement for Prosperity” No. 70, Saturday in Inirida, capital of the jungle province of Guainia, which borders Venezuela and Brazil.
The announcement made last Monday to build the 100,000 free homes within 24 months is in addition to his plan to subsidize the construction programmes for 1 million of the so-called “social homes”, Santos said.
To date, the housing ministry has built 246,000 homes in accord with that plan, which Santos called the “push” for the investment of $738.13 million approved in recent days by the finance ministry because it will guarantee the continuation of that programme in the coming years.
The government is now seeking to give priority to housing as a tool in its strategy to reduce the inequality that causes so much “embarrassment” to the president, and that is the reason for the implementation of the plans and the recent change made by Santos at the head of the housing ministry.
Santos last Monday made public the replacement of Beatriz Uribe with German Vargas Lleras, who was the interior minister up until this time, calling him an “official of high quality”.
These announcements came days after a survey revealed that the Colombian president’s approval rating had fallen to 58 percent and is 15 points below the level he attained three months after assuming power in August 2010.
–IANS/EFE
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Written by admin on 30 April 2012
Veracruz (Mexico), April 30 (IANS/EFE) The body of Regina Martinez, the Proceso magazine correspondent in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, was found in her house. She had been strangled to death, officials said.
Martinez, who covered drug trafficking, was found Saturday in the bathroom of her house in Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, and appeared to have been beaten and strangled.
Emergency services personnel found the body around 6 p.m. after responding to an anonymous tip about a dead body.
Veracruz Gov. Gabriel Duarte ordered an investigation to determine who killed the reporter and expressed condolences to her family.
Martinez had worked for a number of different media outlets during a career that spanned more than 30 years.
Mexico, where nearly 80 journalists have been murdered and several others have disappeared since 2000, is considered the world’s second most dangerous country for members of the media.
Nine journalists were murdered in Mexico last year, the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said in a statement released in January.
Journalists have increasingly been targeted in recent years by drug traffickers and other organized crime groups, especially in northern Mexico.
–IANS/EFE
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Written by admin on 28 April 2012
Mexico City, April 28 (IANS/EFE) Three million minors between the ages of five and 17 work nationwide, nearly half of whom either receive no compensation or are paid in kind, said Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH.
Most of these youths, who work to cover their basic needs and contribute to household income, are forced to abandon their studies, work excessively long hours and are at constant risk of injury or illness due to poor labour conditions, said the commission in a statement Thursday, citing official figures.
The minors frequently are victims of violence and physical and psychological abuse and mistreatment while working on farms, in commerce and industry, the handicrafts sector and as domestic labourers, the commission added.
The statement, released ahead of the April 30 commemoration of Children’s Day in Mexico, said a national CNDH campaign is seeking to pressure government officials to eliminate the problem.
The commission said in 2011 it distributed more than 100,000 brochures and posters alerting children to their rights and responsibilities and held training workshops and courses at several institutions “to protect children in vulnerable situations and promote respect for their rights”.
“The only way to stamp out child labour, which violates minors’ rights and physical well-being, is through coordinated actions between authorities and society,” the statement said.
–IANS/EFE
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