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01/31/13- Prensa Latina (Habana) - DIRECT FROM HAVANA, PM

CUBA NEWS 

President of Cuban Parliament Explains Antiterrorists Case
Varadero Gourmet Festival To Be Held in Major Cuban Resort European Rockers In Cuban
Winter Festival Angolan Poets in Havana Book Fair 

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN STORIES
Venezuela Demands Justice for Coup Victims Finding New Financing Sources, a Challenge
for the Caribbean Eastern Caribbean Countries Seek Greater Economic Integration FAO
Praises School-Snack in Nicaragua Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Makes U.S. Visit
Bolivian Government to Increase Fight Against Aids in 2013 Venezuela Bans
Pyrotechnics From Night Clubs Paraguay: At Least 19 Dead And 13,000 Infected With
Dengue Colombian President Voices Slant On Peace Mexico to Focus Control In The Most
Violent Municipalities Former Presidential Aide Criticizes Current Paraguayan Govt.
Venezuela Govt. Applies Measures to Strengthen Police Work Ten Killed in One Day in
Guatemala 
OTHER INTERNATIONAL STORIES 
Bangladesh: Violent Clashes Between Strikers,
Police Humans Responsible for Disappearance of Tasmanian Tiger Former Burundi
President to Head AU Military Mission to Mali Opposition Demands Rajoy Answer for
Corruption Scandal Lack of Voting-Power Accord Affects IMF Credibility Star Capable
of Forming Planets Discovered Arab League, Egypt Condemn Israeli Attack on Syria
Barack Obama's Uncle In Judicial Limbo Millions of British Poor to Face Tax Increase
To Destroy Armament, Likely Motive of Israeli Attack on Syria UN Chief Concerned
About Israeli Attack on Syria UN Does Not React To Israeli Attack Against Syria It
Will Cost More To Go Through the Suez Canal India Council of Ministers Vs.
AntiCorruption Bill Reforms UN Ban Ki-Moon Reaffirms Israeli Settlements Illegal US
Senator Opposed To More Control On Firearms Buyers Welcomed Signing of Protocol on
War Crimes in Yugoslavia Russian Conquers First Place at Gibraltar Chess Festival
NATO Warns on Inequality in Defense Expenses Among Allies Antibiotics As Part Of The
Management Of Severe Acute Malnutrition U.S. Assistant DA Gunned Down in Front of
Court 
FULL STORIES CUBA NEWS 
President of Cuban Parliament Explains Antiterrorists Case

Havana, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President of the Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon,
explained to Bolivian Attorney General Ramiro Jose Guerrero the case of the five
Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the United States.  According to a report
published today, Alarcón talked about the most recent evidence found to prove the
innocence of the Five, as they are internationally known.  Gerardo Hernandez, Ramón
Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez are serving sentences ranging up to
two life sentences plus 15 years in prison for following up violent groups operating
from Miami against Cuba.  René Gonzalez, imprisoned with his teammates in 1998, is
now serving three years of supervised freedom in that country after his release in
October 2011.  The Bolivian visitor received the document How U.S. government
conspired to condemn the Five, a material that collects information about the payment
to journalists in the United States to create disinformation about the case.  Alarcon
recalled that these articles began to be published in 2000 began, approximately, more
than five per day.  Sgl/ef/ycf/lac/las

Varadero Gourmet Festival To Be Held in Major Cuban Resort

Varadero, Cuba, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The 5th Varadero Gourmet International
Festival will be held in this resort from June 19th to 21st , said a statement from
the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR).  Primarily aimed at entrepreneurs and specialists
who sell foreign and national food and drinks, the event will be held at the Plaza
America Convention Center of Varadero, 130 kilometers east of Havana.  Lectures,
presentations, tasting, launches, workshops, guided tours, exhibitions and
competitions make up the busy schedule during the three days of the meeting,
according to the MINTUR statement.  Some 15 issues are included in the proposals of
the event with suggestive titles like Cuba merging traditions; Cuban rums,
Rumbillion's Secrets until Today, Habanos Five Centuries of Tradition; and Café:
Cuban and Gourmet.  Turning Cuba in a high-quality regarding food service by using
culinary roots and national brands internationally recognized, according to the new
trends, is one of the purposes of the event.  The 5th Varadero Gourmet International
Festival also seeks to promote the exchange of experiences and knowledge among
culinary and services professionals as a competitive factor for tourism destinations.
The event is sponsored by MINTUR, Palmares Business Group and the Training System for
Tourism.  Sgl/ef/isa/lac/wap

European Rockers In Cuban Winter Festival

Havana, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Rock bands from France, Finland, Denmark and
Switzerland will perform at the Brutal Winter Fest 2013 on Feb. 14-24.  Anxiously
awaited by the public, the Brutal Fest, which is held every summer, was extended for
a winter season due to the great number of followers of the genre in Cuba.  Foreign
bands to perform in the festival include Worn-out and From Asylum (France), Bagheera
(Switzerland), Inferia (Finland) and Hexis (Danish).  The locals include Combat
Noise, Escape, Suffering Toll, The Shepal, Ancestor and Trendkill.  The Maxim Rock
Theater, in Cerro municipality, in Havana, will be the venue for the concerts of this
festival, sponsored by the Cuban Rock Agency.  A Tattoo party will be held prior to
concerts.  After the inauguration in Havana, the bands will tour the provinces of
Matanzas (western), Cienfuegos and Villa Clara (central) and Camaguey and Holguin
(eastern).  As a prelude to the festival, the Agency has scheduled performances by
the gore band (extreme metal) JIG-Al (from the Czech Republic), who are coming from a
Mexican tour.  Sgl/ef/rma/mgt/alb

Angolan Poets in Havana Book Fair

Havana, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Five books of Angolan authors will be presented at the
22nd edition of the Internacional Book Fair to be held from February 14-28, informed
the organizers.  When enumerating the books, the General Coordinator of the Fair,
Alex Pausides, said one of them is Sacred Hope, by former President Antonio Agostinho
Neto (1922-1979), one of the most outstanding figures of African lyrics, with
translation made in 1975 by David Chericián.  According to Pausides, the title will
be in the pavilion of the invited country, Angola, located in the San Carlos de la
Cabaña fortress, and is accompanied by three anthologies made in coordination with
the Angola Writers Union.  One of them, At the shade of an imbondeiro, a selection of
19 poets, translated by the folklorist, ethnolog and researchers Rogelio Martinez
Fure.  Another volume is My Poems, by Francisco Lisboa, Angolan poet and diplomat and
first book in three languages (Portuguese, French and Spanish) of the Coleccion Sur.
According to the editorial label, during the Havana book venue, besides literary
presentations, there will be shared readings by writers from mainly Latin America.
Sgl/ef/mgt/rml LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN STORIES Finding New Financing Sources, a
Challenge for the Caribbean

Port of Spain, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) For small Caribbean states is a challenge to
find new financing mechanisms amid the current economic crisis, said the governor of
the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Jwala Rambarran.  The reduction of external
aid, the dismantling of preferential tariffs for products such as sugar and financial
interventions, hit the vulnerable economies of these nations, he said.  While this
generate a dramatic change in the composition of external financing flows,
remittances are emerging as an important alternative source to the Caribbean, one of
the largest recipients of those shipments, he added.  The Caribbean diasporas reaches
about 3.5 million people (about one fifth of the population of this region) and their
remittances represent more than 15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) of the
area, reported Rambarran in a regional workshop on the subject.  Another important
factor that affects the current though situation is the high debt, as many
governments use commercial loans that can not be paid due to their growing inability
to generate fiscal surpluses, he said.  Public debt in the Caribbean maintained an
upward trend since 1998 and reached 80 percent of GDP in 2012, Rambarran detailed.
According to this year projections, these rates will continue to rise in Jamaica, St.
Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, St.
Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, reports the digital newspaper
guardian.co.tt. Sc/ls/ifb

Eastern Caribbean Countries Seek Greater Economic Integration

Basseterre, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The Governor of the Central Bank of the
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dwight Venner, called on member
countries of the regional grouping to make a collective effort to promote their
economies.  This area shows negative growth for four years as a result of the impact
of the economic and financial crisis, which noted and highlighted the need for
political and social consensus in order to address these issues.  The Eastern
Caribbean Currency Union and the OECS should be ready to make significant adjustments
to current policies and business strategies, he said in a public speech here.  Among
the recent initiatives of the regional organization there is the new multi-purpose
identification system (MPID) for the free movement of citizens among member states,
the digital site caribbeannewsnow.com reports.  For Prime Minister of Grenada,
Tillman Thomas, the MPID is aligned with the agenda of the Caribbean Community as it
will facilitate the smooth flow of people and will strengthen the economic union.
The MPID will initially be implemented in Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, the president said.  The OECS, which promotes a common marker space
between the eastern Caribbean islands, is celebrating the second anniversary of its
founding, on January 21.  Sgl/sa/cmf/ls/ifb

FAO Praises School-Snack in Nicaragua

Managua, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) In Nicaragua, all children up to the ninth grade,
more than a million of them, have at least one meal a day guaranteed as a free school
snack, a UN official said today.  UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
representative Fernando Soto is assessing the issue as part of the national effort
against hunger and malnutrition.  Maybe the snack is not a complete meal, but it is
an important reinforcement to the minors' diet, because many arrive at their schools
without having breakfast, the expert said.  When someone visits the schools they
expect to find dining rooms and kitchens, but that is not the general situation in
Central America and Nicaraguam where a solution was found by means of family
participation, he said.  Students' parents cook and bring the food to schools.
Anyone would think they are paid for doing so, but no.  That is the community's
voluntary contribution, said Soto.  The state gives the schools rice, beans, corn,
cooking oil and cereals.  Usually, there are no warehouses.  However, the produce is
not wasted.  The families keep the food and protect it, because that is the food for
their children, the UN official said.  "These processes have few resources, but
plenty of energy, willingness, and social involvement," which proves that it is
possible to fight the scourge of malnutrition, he said.  FAO efforts include the
contribution of international experiences in diversifying the diet in schools,
starting from the local production of fruits and vegetables.  The most recent FAO
assessment report, presented in 2012, places Nicaragua as the country in Latin
America and the Caribbean that has achieved the greatest reduction of malnutrition
between 1990 and 2010, the official recalled.  In his opinion, Nicaragua has paved
the way, with plenty of multi-sectorial policies, legislation, good governability,
and efforts by the city halls and society as a whole.  Sgl/sa/iom/ls/mjm

Millions of British Poor to Face Tax Increase

London, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Millions of poor citizens in the United Kingdom will
face tax increases as a consequence of cuts in the fiscal benefits in many places in
the country.  The report, presented by a foundation called Resolution, said that
starting from April, the bills might have an increase between 100 and 250 pounds
(between 160 and 400 dollars) a year, and in some cases, it might reach up to 600
pounds (950 dollars).  The dates pointed out in the investigation coincide with the
time limits given to local authorities to present their changes in the plans to help
poor families to pay their taxes.  The British Broadcasting Corporation said this
transformation in the fiscal policy is up with the reduction of 10 percent of this
kind of benefits.  In the case of Wales the cut is being absorbed by the government,
so it will not be transmitted to the local authorities.  Scotland shares the support
to municipal taxes and distributes it among the city halls and the local government
while it keeps the support to residents with low incomes.  The fiscal benefit is
demanded by nearly five million homes in the nation.  Nearly 50 percent receives 100
percent of the support and now they do not pay any municipal tax.  Three quarters of
the British authorities plan to demand superior payments to the poor families, in
moments in which other benefits will increase, but more slowly than the cost of life,
while the government introduces a general limit.  Sgl/ef/tac/lac/mar

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Makes U.S. Visit

Quito, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño,
travels today to the U.S. to meet with Ecuadorian migrants and consular authorities,
according to a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration.  The
document states that the head of the Foreign Ministry will visit the states of New
Jersey, Chicago and New York.  He added that Patiño is expected to receive the keys
to the city of Newark, in New Jersey State, and a meet with the immigration in
Chicago, where about 200,000 Ecuadorians live.  The texts added Patino will be
involved in am Intercultural Caravan called Rosa de los Vientos and will attend the
awards of Ecuacopa del Migrants with the ambassador Nathalie Celi.  He will also
attend a ceremony of recognition of the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, to be held
in New York, organized by the foundation Yoko Ono Lennon, the texts said.
Sgl/ef/isa/lac/nda

Bolivian Government to Increase Fight Against Aids in 2013

La Paz, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian government declared 2013 as the International
Year for the prevention of HIV-AIDS due to the increasing number of infected in the
country, reported today the Deputy Health Minister Martin Maturano.  According to
Maturano, the aim of the declaration is to educate and inform the public, a task that
will be in the hands of public health, social security and private health system.
All institutions should provide information and define different strategies,
including workshops with students and others, aimed at raising awareness of HIV can
be in their community, in their neighborhood and may even be in their homes, he said.
Maturano added the possibility of encouraging the appropriate use of condoms and
rapid test.  He pointed to this last as a strategy that has yielded great results in
the country, because through it new positive cases can be identified promptly each
day.  Two terms ago, the country had only nine health centers for quick test, one in
each department capital, but today there are over 1600, said the deputy minister.
Maturano said that since 1984, when the first case of HIV-AIDS in Bolivia was
discovered, until September 2012 there were about 8 600 positive cases, about 2000 of
then have received retroviral treatment offered by the National Government, through
the Ministry of Health and Health Services specialist.  During the first weeks of
this year, 50 new cases were discovered and the highest prevalence is in the cities
of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and La Paz, with 80 percent of cases.  Sgl/ef/gpm/lac/dpg

Bolivian Government to Increase Fight Against Aids in 2013

La Paz, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian government declared 2013 as the International
Year for the prevention of HIV-AIDS due to the increasing number of infected in the
country, reported today the Deputy Health Minister Martin Maturano.  According to
Maturano, the aim of the declaration is to educate and inform the public, a task that
will be in the hands of public health, social security and private health system.
All institutions should provide information and define different strategies,
including workshops with students and others, aimed at raising awareness of HIV can
be in their community, in their neighborhood and may even be in their homes, he said.
Maturano added the possibility of encouraging the appropriate use of condoms and
rapid test.  He pointed to this last as a strategy that has yielded great results in
the country, because through it new positive cases can be identified promptly each
day.  Two terms ago, the country had only nine health centers for quick test, one in
each department capital, but today there are over 1600, said the deputy minister.
Maturano said that since 1984, when the first case of HIV-AIDS in Bolivia was
discovered, until September 2012 there were about 8 600 positive cases, about 2000 of
then have received retroviral treatment offered by the National Government, through
the Ministry of Health and Health Services specialist.  During the first weeks of
this year, 50 new cases were discovered and the highest prevalence is in the cities
of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and La Paz, with 80 percent of cases.  Sgl/ef/gpm/lac/dpg

Venezuela Bans Pyrotechnics From Night Clubs

Caracas, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Minister of the Interior and Justice
Nestor Reverol announced a ban on pyrotechnics in private and public live shows as
caution following the tragic death of 235 people at a Disco in Santa Maria, Brazil.
The resolution that includes its circulation in Friday's Official Gazette was sent to
the Council of Ministers after a meeting with the Civil Protection and Disaster
Management brass where the Minister also advanced a national plan to inspect and
monitor showbiz.  The firefighters through out the country must enforce a.s.a.p. an
inspection program of showbiz venues to monitor thorough enforcement of the measures.
Within eight days, says the Minister, the inspections are to begin to "confirm
introduction of the regulation and the emergency measures such activities demand."
Sgl/ef/emw/lac/jha

Venezuela Demands Justice for Coup Victims

Caracas, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Executive Vice President Nicolás Maduro demanded
justice for the victims of the coup d' Etat of April 11, 2002, against President Hugo
Chavez.  Maduro received today the relatives of people killed that day in Puente
Llaguno, an area near Miraflores Palace, the current government house.  He recalled
the date when a group of Venezuelans was target of shootings by pro-coup groups
trying to present Chavez as responsible for a massacre.  "As Government, we continue
demanding justice for those serious crimes against human rights, as those actions
have to be punished to avoid impunity," said Maduro.  "The recent visit to Chile and
to the office where then President Salvador Allende committed suicide in 1973 made us
remember what we went through in April, 2002," when a similar fascist dictatorship
was brewing, and those crimes in Puente Llaguno were committed to justify the coup,
he said.  For being involved in the events of Puente Llaguno, the Attorney General's
Office, at a request from the Associations of Victims of April, 11, accused several
officers of the Caracas Metropolitan Police.  Sgl/ef/rma/lac/mem

Paraguay: At Least 19 Dead And 13,000 Infected With Dengue

Asuncion, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) At least 19 dead and 16,000 infected caused an
epidemic of dengue in Paraguay in January, according to the latest report from the
Ministry of Health.  According to the director of that institution Surveillance,
Celia Martinez, although early cases were concentrated in the capital, the disease
spread to other regions so it was necessary to extend eradication efforts throughout
the country.  Martinez explained the Paraguay.com digital diary that 6600 people have
been treated at medical centers with symptoms of dengue since early January this year
to date.  However the official reported that the number of infections decreased this
week as a result of a cleanup campaign conducted by the Ministry of Health in
coordination with neighborhoods, municipalities, police and even military involvemen
Last year, the disease killed 70 people and infected another 30 000.  The Ministry of
Health attributed the mortality escalation to the vulnerability of the population
that have had the disease several times, and the circulation of four serotypes of the
Dengue.  Dengue is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti, which breeds in clean and
stagnant water, inside or outside the house.  Sgl/ef/gpm/rc/lio

Colombian President Voices Slant On Peace

Bogota, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos called not to
confuse the message on his Twitter account the views of his brother Enrique Santos
with his own on the peace process.  "To avoid confusion, let's not forget Augustus is
Augustus and Abdón is Abdón", said the head of state on Twitter, a phrase long used
years in Colombia to say a sibling should not be attributed his brother's words
meaning that Enrique Santos' views are far from his own or the government's.
Wednesday, Enrique Santos said at an event in Wilson Center of Washington that
enforcing the peace agreements of the government with the FARC-EP is tied to his
brother's re-election as President.  "It's being five months and we have not even
study the first point (agribusiness," said Enrique Santos.  "Feeling this is totally
different may evaporate; go from hostility to indifference, and the process could die
as in the absence of oxygen."  Success of the talks, he commented, "is tied to the
re-election of Juan Manuel Santos because we need to review the choices: Uribism
(allluding to ex President Alvaro Uribe (2020-2010) that readies his race for
Congress) and the peace process are on the opposite side of the line."  Even, he
suggested, in the next president is an allay of Santos, like Germán Vargas Lleras,
the future of the peace process would neither be taken for granted."  The phrase of
the President originates in the slants of the brothers Augusto and Abdón Espinosa
that had different political lean and belonged to different political parties.  After
the message on Twitter, Enrique Santos explained today from Washington that his
thoughts on the peace process were his personal views and whipped the dialogue's slow
motion."  Sgl/ef/emw/lac/ag Mexico to Focus Control In The Most Violent
Municipalities

Mexico, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Mexico will undertake a multi-sectoral program to
reduce crime from the first half of February, with an emphasis on the 110
municipalities with the highest rates of violence in the nation.  The National
Program for Social Prevention of Violence and Crime involves the Ministries of
Interior, Finance, Economics, Education, Health, Social Development, Labour and
Agrarian Development.  The Undersecretary of Prevention and Citizen Participation,
Roberto Campa, told the Universal of Mexico that the program does not mean new
structures, but will be supported by state and municipal governments, the agencies
involved and the public.  A comprehensive program is conceived for each unsafe
community, which should be defined in conjunction with each secretariat in terms of
jobs, sports marketing, reclaiming public spaces and health program to curb
addictions, he said.  They are also planning national-level actions to reduce
violence, school family and others aimed at identifying early learning and behavioral
difficulties in children.  In a second stage, according to Campa, the program is
expected to reach prisons with measures allowing prisoners, after regaining his
freedom, return to society to prevent recidivism.  Sgl/ef/isa/lac/smp

Former Presidential Aide Criticizes Current Paraguayan Govt.

Asuncion, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina)A former political aide of ex President Fernando Lugo
said that the current government of Federico Franco persecutes progressive, left-wing
sectors in an unprecedented way.  The Paraguay.com website quotes remarks made by
Emilio Camacho to Monumental AM radio as saying that "not even the Colorado party
people persecuted us like the liberals."  Camacho also referred to the country's
situation and to the general elections scheduled for April 21.  In his opinion,
Paraguay must rebuild the democracy that was deeply hurt by an irregular impeachment
against Lugo, described as a parliamentary coup by part of the region.  According to
Camacho, who is a lawyer expert in Constitutional matters, may be who wins the
upcoming electoral process is not as important as the projects presented to the
citizens.  Sgl/ef/rma/mgt/jam

Venezuela Govt. Applies Measures to Strengthen Police Work

Caracas, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan authorities on Thursday equipped police
forces from Carabobo state with 90 mobile units (40 cars and 50 motorcycles patrol),
in order to increase surveillance in the state.  The Minister of Interior and
Justice, Nestor Reverol, said the measure responds to the need to reduce crime rates
in the state, considered among the highest in the country.  Based on this indicator,
Reverol said that in addition to the endowment, the population will have 5889
municipal and regional police officers on the streets.  They also will receive help
from National Guard troops and 447 officers from the Bolivarian National Police
(PNB).  Reverol anticipated that the measures led to a 14 percent reduction in the
homicide rate in January, taking into account that in 2012 in Carabobo were reported
1851 cases of this kind All these actions are part of the Grand Mission Full Life
Venezuela aiming at increasing the safety parameters in municipalities with highest
crime rate in the country.  Sgl/ef/gpm/mgt/mem

Ten Killed in One Day in Guatemala

Guatemala, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Ten slains, including two policemen and one warden
were the death toll of one day in Guatemala, whose murder rate has been calculated in
32 per 100,000 people, one of the highest in Latin America.  On the developments on
Wednesday, from down to mid night, President Otto Perez Medina, the Government
(Interior) Minister Mauricio López, have issued contradictory statements.  Pérez
Molina told the media two attacks within eight days _claiming the lives of four
police officers- rather than fortuitous were organized crime and felons willing to
boast on how they command the Police.  However, López commented few minutes after the
President's address that a fire exchange on Zone 11 is linked to the official
storming of a prison in Zone Five, adding at the press meet that they will run a
probe to establish if the crimes are interconnected.  The attack on a Police car
occurred while driving inmate Ana Liseth Rodríguez from the Centro de Orientación
Femenina to San Juan de Dios General Hospital, to check on bullet wounds on her arm.
She is serving a sentence for murder and murder intent with severe injuries.  The
names of the dead are Amílcar Rivera and Alex Lemus, while the Municipal Police
helped two injured wardens Roberto Ajcip and Corina Rodríguez.  In another shooting
in Zone 12, were killed Carlos Suret, aid in a cold meat truck, his peer Danilo
Rodríguez and guard Cesario Chun.  Two criminals died and one agent was wounded
Wednesday in shooting spree between the police and felons that robbed a van in Zone
11, reports Police Spokesman Pablo Castillo, adding that the body of an unidentified
assailant was abandoned in the scene and a second (Luis Perez) died in route to the
hospital, confirmed Castillo.  According to the Police, the wounded in the incident
were Édgar Pineda, Officer Vinicio Gómez and Agent Nixon Hernández and the detainees
were Jonathan González who tried to impersonate a prosecutor.  An alleged private
guard was murdered in Mixco Municipality, west Mixco, while another man still
unidentified was gunned down in Zone 13 of the capital.  The illegal weaponry
smuggled into the country from El Salvador, Honduras, and from Mexico through Belize,
round 800,000, commented Carmen Rosa de Leon.  Director of the Instituto de Enseñanza
para el Desarrollo Sostenible, a non profit institution.  Sgl/ef/emw/mgt/rsm OTHER
INTERNATIONAL STORIES Bangladesh: Violent Clashes Between Strikers, Police

Dhaka, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The Bangladesh police today fired rubber bullets and
tear gas against participants in a national strike called by the Jamaat-e-Islami, the
largest Islamist party in the country.  Local media reported that although so far no
fatalities have been reported, a number of people were wounded and dozens arrested.
The main fighting took place in the capital, where protesters burned several
vehicles, but also disturbed daily life in cities like Chittagong (Southeast, second
largest in the country), and in other important localities such as Kushtia (west) and
Mymensingh (North).  The strike was called by the Jamaat-e-Islami to demand the
release of several of their leaders who are charged with crimes against humanity
during the war that in 1971 led to the independence of the former East Pakistan.
Last December, the political group and the National Party (BNP) led a national strike
to demand the restoration of a multi-party body responsible for ensuring fair
parliamentary elections this year.  The opposition accuses the government of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina of planning to manipulate the elections and keeping the
Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in jail only for political reasons.  In recent decades Hasina
and GNP leader, Khaleda Zia, have alternated in power, except in some periods of
military dictatorship.  Sc/sa/abo/ale/asg

Humans Responsible for Disappearance of Tasmanian Tiger

Canberra, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) An investigation by the University of Adelaide has
linked human activity to the disappearance of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine
cynocephalus), an Australian marsupial driven to extinction in 1936.  This study
contradicts the belief that the disappearance of the species was caused by a disease.
This is the marsupial that populated much of the territory of the island of Tasmania,
south of Australia, before European settlement in 1803.  The population of this
carnivore dropped when the island government encouraged its hunting, offering rewards
for every two thousand specimens killed.  Many people believe that such an incentive
did not cause the extinction, but that it was the result of a rare epidemic, said
Thomas Prowse, a researcher at the School of Earth Sciences and Environment.  To test
their theory, the researchers used a mathematical model to assess whether the
presence of European settlers led to the decline of the marsupial, without the
influence of any disease.  The model simulated the effects of the reward for hunting,
habitat loss and reduction of prey (kangaroos and wallabies) due to agriculture and
alimentary competition with millions of sheep brought to the territory.  According to
the researchers, the negative impact of the European presence was powerful enough,
even without the aid of an epidemic disease, to eliminate the species.  The Tasmanian
tiger, named for the stripes across his back, was like a large dog, short-haired,
that could measure up to 1.2 meters long, with a 65 centimeter long stiff tail.
Another study revealed last year that the Australian dingo, or wild dog (Canis lupus
dingo) was responsible for the disappearance of the Tasmanian tiger three thousand
years ago, from the continental territory of Australia.  Sc/sa/cmf/rmh/abm

Former Burundi President to Head AU Military Mission to Mali

Addis Ababa, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The African Union (AU) appointed Burundi's former
President Pierre Buyoya as head of the International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA)
to fight Islamic groups in the northern region of the country.  In a communiqué made
public today, President of the AU Commission Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma decided to
appoint Buyoya as its special envoy in charge of the mission.  Buyoya, a politician
and military man who was Burundi's president twice due to coup d'etats, will be based
in Bamako, Mali's capital.  Up to the present, he has been the AU representative for
Mali and Sahel.  Mali has been plunged into a profound political crisis since March
22, 2012, when a coup carried out by army members overthrew President Amado Toumani
Touré.  That action weakened the military response in the northern region, where
troops fought Tuareg rebels from the Azawad National Liberation Movement, which
advanced in the following weeks, but was then displaced to the northern area by
Islamic rebels.  Now, French troops and Malian contingents are operating against
those groups, and while the conflict moves forward, a peaceful solution for solving
the crisis is fading away.  On the other hand, the cost of the French military
intervention in Mali is equivalent to nearly 50 million euros since it began three
weeks ago, France's Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian noted today.  Le Drian
stressed that the state budget has a foreign operation section equivalent to 630
million euros, allowing France to commit its forces in such circumstances.
Sc/sa/lch/ls/mt

Opposition Demands Rajoy Answer for Corruption Scandal

Madrid, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The Spanish opposition today demanded that Prime
Minister Mariano Rajoy appear immediately to clarify the new revelations about the
corruption scandal that has rocked the ruling Popular Party (PP).  The newspaper El
Pais published on Thursday the alleged secret accounts of former PP treasurers Alvaro
Lapuerta and Luis Barcenas, which reflect irregular payments to party leaders betwenn
1990 and 2009, including Rajoy, and income from corporate donations.  In response,
the Secretary General of the PP, Maria Dolores de Cospedal, denounced in a press
conference, that the papers released by the Madrid newspaper seek to harm only the PP
and the chief executive.  From the Canary Islands, the leader of the Spanish Worker
Socialist Party (PSOE), Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, dismissed the statements from
Cospedal, who he accused of trying to obstruct the investigation of the Gürtel case.
Responsible for the finances of the PP for almost three decades, Barcenas resigned in
2009 after being accused in the Gürtel corruption case that tainted PP members now in
power.  "Today it's not just the PP at stake, but also the name of the Prime Minister
of Spain", warned Rubalcaba, after describing the information as scandalous and
reminding that the famous corruption case has many ramifications.  According to the
leader of the main opposition force, the situation of the country is extremely
serious and a matter of genuine social concern, affecting Rajoy directly.  The Gürtel
case is not a simple record of corruption, but is infinitely more serious, since it
involves several autonomous regions, municipalities and now the ruling party in
Spain, remarked the PSOE secretary general.  "When a government is urging its
citizens to try and make sacrifices, it must be itself legitimate," said Rubalcaba in
obvious reference to the harsh social and labor cuts ordered by the Moncloa Palace
(seat of the central government).  "To govern a country, authority is needed and
Rajoy hasn't the slightest bit of it," emphasized Deputy Joan Coscubiela, from the
Initiative for Catalonia Green party (ICV).  The only decent way out of such filth is
to call for a referendum and let the people decide, said Chesús Yuste, from the
Aragonese Chunta legislature (CHA).  Sc/sa/cgm/ls/edu

Lack of Voting-Power Accord Affects IMF Credibility

Washington, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Credibility of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) is currently affected by having gone such a long period without reaching an
agreement about a new formula to change its members' voting power, according to
analysts.  After two years of discussion among country members, the entity did not
manage to meet the deadline it set to determine the relevant changes, which would
grant more decision power to the emerging economies.  The emerging nations blame
Europe to a great extent for putting up resistance to the changes, because they would
weaken its advantageous position within the fund.  The Executive Director for Brazil
and 10 other countries, Paulo Nogueira, denounced the lack of an agreement after two
years of negotiations and warned that the IMF could lose credibility.  The governing
reforms practically stopped in 2011, when the fund did not manage to impose voting
changes agreed to in 2010, he said in a communique.  The IMF said it is planning to
have a formula by January, 2014, when it studies the voting actions of the member
countries once again.  The fund said there has been important progress in identifying
key elements that could be the basis for a final agreement.  The voting power of each
nation within the financial authority is determined by the size of its economy,
international reserves and other indicators.  In the case of the United States, which
has 16.7 percent of the vote, the system grants it veto power over the decisions
approved.  The main criticism to the IMF is due to the conditions it imposes on
developing countries to pay their debts or grant them loans.  Sc/sa/iom/ls/mfb

Star Capable of Forming Planets Discovered

Washington, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Observations made with the Herschel Space
Telescope, belonging to the European Space Agency, determined that a star located 176
light years from Earth is surrounded by massive enough material to form new planets.
Experts say that up to 50 Jupiter-sized worlds can be formed from that cloud of gas
and dust.  "We didn't expect to see so much gas around the star," said Edwin Bergin,
of the University of Michigan, in the United States, main author of the paper.
Usually, surrounding material for stars of this age has already been cleaned up, but
this one still has enough surrounding mass to form the equivalent of 50 planets the
size of Jupiter, the scientist stated in an article released in the Nature journal.
The new findings are an important step in understanding the diversity of the
planetary systems in our universe, Bergin said, adding that systems with super-Earths
have already been observed, along with many other worlds similar to Neptune.
Sc/sa/iff/vm

Arab League, Egypt Condemn Israeli Attack on Syria

Cairo, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The Arab League (AL) and the Egyptian government today
condemned Israel's air raid on Wednesday against a Center of Syrian military studies,
Tel Aviv's second aggressive action against a Islamic country in the last months.  AL
Secretary General Nabil el Arabi described the attack as "a flagrant violation of the
territory of an Arab State and its sovereignty".  The Secretary referred to the
aggression as a violation of international law and U.N. Security Council resolutions,
noting the silence of the international community towards similar aggressions against
Syria "encouraged Israel to carry out this new action."  Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohamed Kamel Amr demanded the international community hold Israel accountable for
the attacks against Arab territories, referring to the aggression by Israeli fighters
against Khartoum, Sudan's capital in late October 2012.  Sc/sa/lch/ls/msl

Barack Obama's Uncle In Judicial Limbo

Washington, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Onyango Obama, uncle of President Barack Obama,
will be in immigration limbo until December 3, 2013, when a U.S. judge will decide if
he should be deported to Kenya.  The 68 year old Onyango is the half-brother of
Obama's late father and has lived intermittently in the United States for several
decades ever since arriving for the alleged purpose of studying.  His irregular
immigrant status only came to light in mid-2011, when he was stopped by traffic
police while driving drunk in the town of Framingham, Massachusetts.  A Boston court
has overseen the case since then without finding sufficient evidence to justify the
repatriation of the elderly man, according to prosecutors.  The Federal Bureau of
Immigration Appeals also decided to review the record of George Hussein Onyango
Obama, who has remained unlawfully in the United States since 1992 and manages a
liquor store in Massachusetts.  In 1989 an immigration court in Ohio ordered the
deportation of Onyango, a native of Kenya.  That ruling was appealed and later
confirmed in 1992.  Barack Obama is known to have family in the African country
through his late father, who died in a car accident in the city of Nairobi in 1982.
Framingham Police said that when George Hussein was arrested in August 2011 he
threatened to phone the White House to resolve the matter.  Sgl/sa/abo/ls/jvj

To Destroy Armament, Likely Motive of Israeli Attack on Syria

Damascus, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Destroying Israeli weapons intended for examination
in a research center near this capital may have been the reason behind the bombing of
the said facility by Israeli planes, an important alternative website revealed today.
Based on an unofficial Syrian source, the Voltaire Network published that some days
ago the armed forces seized state of the art Israeli military equipment that was in
the hands of armed opposition groups operating against President Bashar Al Assad.
The weapons had been taken to the bombed research facility in Jemrayya, some 20 km
from Damascus, where they were supposed to be dismantled and examined; the Israelis
may have wanted to destroy such evidence to prevent them from be sent to Russia or
Iran, said the source.  In fact, land commandos from opposition Free Syrian Army had
launched a first attack against the facility that was rejected, the source noted.
The Israeli planes only intervened later to complete the mission the guerrillas were
unable to accomplish, it said.  According to the website run by renowned
international analyst Thierry Meyssan, the Israeli fighter planes violated the
Lebanon's airspace at very low altitude and appeared behind Mount Hermon.  This
denies versions from Israeli sources echoed by Western media, saying that the attack
targeted a military convoy carrying weapons for Lebanese Hizbullah organization,
commented Voltaire Network.  The attack, resulting in two persons killed and another
five wounded, have been strongly rejected by main political and social organizations
in Syria and entities and governments worldwide.  Sgl/ef/rma/lac/lr


UN Chief Concerned About Israeli Attack on Syria

United Nations, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon just
expressed concern today about "reports about an Israeli air attack against Syria" and
said not having much detail about the incident yet.  At the moment, the UN has no
detail about what happened or is in a position to verify the facts independently, he
said in a communiqué released by the office of his official spokesman.  However, he
urged "all concerned parties to prevent tensions and an escalation of violence in the
region" and demanded strict compliance with international law.  In this regard, he
stressed the need to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all
countries in the area.  Sgl/ef/rma/lac/vc

UN Does Not React To Israeli Attack Against Syria

United Nations, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Over 24 h after Israeli jets targeted a
military research centre north-west of Damascus, Syria, the United Nations continues
waiting for more information to issue an official action on the aggression.
According to the Deputy Official Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Eduardo del Buey, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon is awaiting the
results of an investigation related to the events before giving statements about it.
Facing the insistence of the UN accredited journalists, the spokesman assured there
will be a report on the issue within the next hours.  At yesterday dawn, Israeli
planes bombed a military scientific research center in Jamraya area, less than 20
kilometers northwest of Damascus, leaving two people dead and five injured Syrian
Foreign Ministry announced the presentation of a formal protest to the Security
Council because of the Israeli action.  The complaint was also given to the force
commander of the UN peacekeeping in the Golan Heights, General Iqbal Sanga.  However,
the spokesman said the contingent of peacekeepers reported no aircraft have been
found flying over the area of separation and can not confirm the allegations by
Damascus.  Syria believes such aggression violates the commitments of the
disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel signed in 1974.  Sgl/Ycf/lac/vc

It Will Cost More To Go Through the Suez Canal

Cairo, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The ships going along the Suez Canal from next May 1
on, will have to pay more for the toll, reported today the direction of the Canal.
The biggest tax, five per cent, will be for the ships cisterns of transport of raw
oil, derivatives of the hydrocarbon, chemical products or other liquids; in case of
the transports of load the tax begins with a rise of two per cent, according to the
source.  The decision to decree the increase is based on studies on the income of the
marine transport and projections of the economic world growth and the perspectives of
the marine traffic, adds the bulletin.  This is the second increase of the toll for
the seaway from March of last year, when there came into force a rise of three clear
percent.  The channel, which joins the seas Red and Mediterranean, is one of the
principal sources of income of Egypt and its importance grew in a substantial way in
the last months due to the drop in the tourist flow and the two year-old derived
economic paralysis that forced former president Hosni Mubarak to resign.  The
economic tribulations continue due to the confrontation among President Mohamed
Morsi, elected last year, and their opponents, which have been increased in the last
days.  Sgl/ef/tac/rc/msl

India Council of Ministers Vs. AntiCorruption Bill Reforms

New Delhi, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) India's Council of Ministers reported today a
controversial anticorruption draft bill that failed again to quiet the opposition and
the civil society.  The cabinet under command of PM Manmohan Singh, santioned 14 of
the16 amendments the Rajya Sabha board (equals the Senate) whichthe leading political
parties and social activist Anna Hazare, leader of the crusade against the vice,
disqualified.  Two cardinal demands from the opposition were making the office of the
Prime Minister dependent from the Lokpal (an eventual autonomous anticorruption
office), and avoid its subordination to their territorial peers for its would
undermine state autonomy.  However, the civil society and opposition still think the
draft bill "naive" for it overlooks simple matters ruling out an exemption for the
Central Bureau of Investigations.  Leaders of the main opposition Party - Bharatiya
Janata - even questioned the authority given to a Rajya Sabha Panel rather than to
the Chamber drafting the ammendment which as exclusive faculty of the Parliament.
Hazare just called "useless" the initiative under such circumstances and warned
further promotion of the version and a tour through the states asking the people not
to vote for the candidates of the government Alianza Progresista Unida.  His partner
in the movement India Vs. corruption, Arvind Kejriwal, said the issue is not to call
Lokpal for anything "because if the Law remains a heaven for the crooked, what's its
point?  Kejriwal, who went independent from Hazare in 2012 to create Aam Aadmi Party
(Party of the Common Man) said the government's Constitutional corruption-free region
since "50% the Ministers that already adopted the draft bill would be jailed under a
strong Lokpal.  The government of India has been for over three years, under fire
from the opposition and civil society.  The best known cases are the dirty sales of
second generation cordless phones Phones, whose loses were calculated in $40bn and
the lawsuit in court continues.  The scandal started Aug 17, 2012 when the
Comptrollership and General Auditing denounced the government had assigned 194 blocs
to 25 private coal companies at record low prices, circumventing the bid, and
draining (37bn-worth public funds).  Sgl/ef/emw/lac/asg

UN Ban Ki-Moon Reaffirms Israeli Settlements Illegal

United Nations, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) All Israeli settlement activity in occupied
Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, is illegal and contrary to Israeli
obligations, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon again today.  In this way, the UN
chief reacted to the report of a commission of the Human Rights Council denouncing
the construction of settlements as a violation of the rights of the Palestinian
people.  A communiqué from the office of the official UN spokesman indicated that the
UN chief "took note" of the conclusions drafted by the HRC fact-finding group that
will be discussed by the Geneva-based UN body.  The investigation established that
the violations committed by Israel are part of a general pattern of acts
characterized by the daily denial of the right to self-determination and the
systematic discrimination against the Palestinian population under strict military
control to the detriment of the local inhabitants' rights.  The commission cited
violations including evictions, demolitions and forced displacement of people and
held Israel responsible for the construction, development, consolidation and
encouragement of settlement construction in occupied territories since 1967.
Yesterday, Israel refused to appear in a HRC session scheduled to review its
behaviour in the human rights field, and the UN urged Tel Aviv to reconsider its
conduct for a new session scheduled for Oct-Nov this year.  Israel is the only
country failing to show up before the so-called Universal Periodic Review, installed
five years ago, also including this time another 13 states.  Sgl/ef/rma/rc/vc

US Senator Opposed To More Control On Firearms Buyers

Washington, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Republican Senator for the US State of Iowa,
Charles Grassley, said today he opposes to increased background checks to purchasers
of firearms, a demand from President Barack Obama.  Grassley, the highest Republican
ranked in the Senate Judicial Committee, added that that body scans the subject but
is unlikely that measures be approved to make them too much demanding, because they
may violate the constitutional rights of the American citizens.  President Barack
Obama and supporters of firearms regulations consider controls of the histories of
the buyers make more difficult the access of criminals and mentally ill to these
artifacts.  In an interview with CNN television, Grassley also said he is opposed to
the Bill submitted this week by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein to ban assault
rifles and boots of high capacity, similar to legislation that was passed in 1994 but
expired ten years later.  The debate on increasing armed violence in United States
stoked after the massacre on December 14 passed at an elementary school in Newtown,
state of Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were killed.
Sgl/ef/tac/rc/rgh

Welcomed Signing of Protocol on War Crimes in Yugoslavia

Brussels, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) welcomed the signing today in Brussels of the Protocol between the
War Crimes Prosecutor's office of Serbia and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and
Herzegovina on the exchange of evidence and information in war crimes cases.  The
signing of the Protocol, which aims to facilitate cooperation between the
Prosecutor's offices of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to bring
perpetrators of grave crimes to justice.  According to the ICTY in a communiqué, the
agreement represents a significant step in the combat against impunity in the former
Yugoslavia.  Enhanced cooperation between the Prosecutor's offices is critical for
the victims of the crimes committed during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia who
seek justice and redress for their suffering, stated the document.  If adequately
implemented, the Protocol could offer practical solutions to problems such as
parallel investigations between the two countries and represents and important step
towards addressing the backlog of cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sgl/ef/ycf/lac/mar

Russian Conquers First Place at Gibraltar Chess Festival

London, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Russian Great Master (GM) Nikita Vitiugov won the
title of the International Chess Festival Thursday, in the British possession of
Gibraltar.  Vitiugov tied in the first place with his English counterpart Nigel
Short, whom he edged 1.5-0.5 points in a tie-break duel, after finishing the regular
schedule with eight units.  For Latin America the most conveniently placed were the
GM Rubén Felgaer (Argentina) and Eduardo Iturrizaga (Venezuela), placed in the 16th
and 26th, in that order.  The two split the point in the concluding date, Felgaer
before Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Iturrizaga against International Master (IM)
David Larino (Spain), to close with seven and 6.5 points, respectively.  Of all the
players in the region, only Colombian Wilson Palencia triumphed Thursday in the last
round , against German GM Raj Tischbierek, and concluded in the 74th place, with six
points.  For her part, Venezuelan Sarai Sánchez Venezuelan made a stalemate with
Canadian Stephen Fairbairn, and countryman Oliver Kevin Urán imitated the FIDE Master
(FM) from Germany, Michael Stockmann.  Finally, the Colombian MF Alexander Peña and
the Venezuelan José Manuel Díaz were surpassed by the Spanish MF Marc Sánchez and
Nigerian Rotimi Dasaolu, respectively.  Sgl/ef/tac/lac/lp

NATO Warns on Inequality in Defense Expenses Among Allies

Brussels, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary General of the Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on Thursday warned on defense spending
inequality among member countries of the alliance.  Despite the economic crisis in
Europe, the official calls to increase military budget, otherwise this would
compromise military capability and credibility of the regional organization,
justified him.  In a press conference, Rasmussen said the defense spending of the
allies have declined in recent years, while the those of new emerging powers have
increased.  However, the president of the World Peace Council, Maria Do Socorro,
explained that military expenditures of NATO countries account for 2.6 percent of
global GDP.  In recent statements, Do Socorro said that the sum of the arms budget of
that "war machine" and the USA is 76 percent of military spending on the planet.
According to the leader of NATO, if inequality in the defense budget continues, they
will face the risk of a widening gap between intra-European relations and among
allies in the region with the United States and with emerging powers.  During the
presentation of the Annual Report, the Secretary General indicated that
disproportionate cuts not only weaken the military forces, but also the industries
from which they receive support and are important drivers for innovation, employment
and exports.  Rasmussen's remarks about increasing military investment occur when
Europe barely reaches the first signs of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and
the danger of a new wave of recession in the world.  Sgl/ef/gpm/lac/to/ari

Antibiotics As Part Of The Management Of Severe Acute Malnutrition

Washington, 31 Jan (Prensa Latina) A low coast treatment of routine antibiotic agents
to nutritional therapy may increase recovery rates and decrease mortality among
children with severe acute malnutrition treated in the community according to the New
England Journal of Medicine.  Researchers at the University of Washington treated a
group of Malawian children with severe acute malnutrition to receive amoxicillin,
cefdinir, or placebo for 7 days in addition to ready-to-use therapeutic food for the
outpatient treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition.  The primary
outcomes were the rate of nutritional recovery and the mortality rate.  The addition
of antibiotics to therapeutic regimens for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition
was associated with a significant improvement in recovery and mortality rates.  These
findings will improve the methods used today to treat malnutrition in children.  Sgl/
mgt/mor

U.S. Assistant DA Gunned Down in Front of Court

Washington, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) A Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney was
shot and killed today in front of the Palace of Justice, in Texas, at a time when the
spiral of gun violence in the U.S. seems unstoppable.  The victim, identified as Mark
Hasse, was shot at least five times as he left the parking lot and headed to court
this morning, according to a CNN report.  The source itself showed images of the site
and said that the police are chasing two alleged suspects.  This was an attack on the
criminal justice system, said Sheriff David Byrnes, who was quoted by USA Today.
Early reports claim that the Assistant DA was investigating a case involving the
American criminal organization Aryan Brotherhood, so it was opened an investigation
to determine whether there is any connection with the shooting.  Kaufman is a North
Texas town of about 6,700 inhabitants, located about 33 kilometers southeast of
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