Video shows Chilean miners listening to Juan Luis Guerra

SANTO DOMINGO-A new video of the trapped miners in Chile shows that are in good mood, his face shaven, wearing new clothes and sleeping in beds.

The images transmitted by CNN to see how miners can receive supplies and some of the beds were assembled in the shelter.

Also, while transmitting the video news in the background listening to the songs "Bubbles of Love" and "I wish it would rain coffee" of Juan Luis Guerra.

In recent days, rescuers have been sent to the miners MP3 with small speakers with a selection of musical numbers that include Mexican rancheras, reggaeton Puerto Rican and Dominican merengue.

Judge charged with fraud has freed child Customs

Santiago's attorney, Jenny Berenice Reynoso, confirmed Tuesday that the Public Prosecutor who declined to vary the extent of coercion against those accused of fraud by more than 100 million pesos from the Directorate General of Customs has a son who works in this institution.

Berenice Reynoso said the son of the president of the Santiago Appeals Court, Vielka Calderon could be investigated in relation to fraud.

In that sense, Berenice Reynoso criticized the decision of the Criminal Chamber of the Santiago Appeals Court, presided Calderón, to vary the extent of coercion eight months of imprisonment the court issued the Permanent Service for a financial guarantee of two million pesos to each of those involved in the alleged embezzlement.

The prosecutor said that Calderón's decision is inconsistent with the policy conducted by the Public Prosecutor against corruption.

Berenice Reynoso was interviewed while participating in a meeting with the Attorney General of the Republic, Radhames Jimenez Pena, Deputy Prosecutor, the National Police chief, Jose Armando Polanco Gómez, President of the DNCD, Rolando Rosado Matero, to coordinate actions combating organized crime.

Jiménez Peña immediately announced that Calderón will call to explain the reasons for its decision.

Those involved in the million-dollar fraud are Adalberto Rosa Rosario, a former Customs subcollectors, Miguel Ángel Peña Lazala and Gerard Estevez. At three, the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal imposed a financial guarantee of two million each, from leaving the country and presenting all 30 of every month to the prosecutor.

Racketeering

The prosecutor said the embezzlement case has all the hallmarks of organized crime.

In that order, said he did not conceive that there are now hundreds of people in prison for crimes of lesser magnitude than those committed by the accused.

The criminal chamber of Appeals of Santiago, welcomed the request of the defense of the accused, the direction of Customs and the Office of the Court of Appeal, arguing that it was an economic crime.

Condemned to 20 years old man who burned a woman

SANTO DOMINGO .- A man who set fire to a house with his ex-wife was convicted in the First Collegiate Court of the Province of Santo Domingo to 20 years in prison.

The sentence was imposed on the farmer Domingo Torres after being found guilty of violation of Articles 295, 296 and 297 of the Penal Code Dominicano.

The court presided by Judge Julio Cesar Lara welcomed the evidence presented by the Public Ministry by which showed that housing fire Torres Mora Maria when she was inside.

The woman saved his life thanks to the intervention of one of his sons and several neighbors that out of the house when he was engulfed in flames.

According to the instrumented file in the Office of the Province of Santo Domingo, the man sentenced to 20 years in prison was presented to the lady's house with two full gallons of gasoline and proceeded to spray it and set it on fire with a match.

Subsequently, Domingo Torres closed the lock housing.

The incident occurred on March 28, 2009 in Linares Basilia Dock Street Los Mina, Santo Domingo.

U.S. Analyst identified 17 officers linked to the drug, according Vincho

SANTO DOMINGO .- The Narcotics Affairs Adviser of the Executive Branch, Marino Vinicio Castillo, said that an intelligence analyst in the United States identified at least 17 Armed Forces officers, including generals, who are tied in matters of drug trafficking.

He said that the United States have the information as suggested shared with the Dominican Republic because it indicates that those officers have not been touched.

Castillo said that this is not an agent either, but an intelligence analyst, before leaving the country to Bolivia offered the information to a person closely linked to it.

"He told that person, before leaving, we have identified at least 17 senior military officers, including generals, who in one way or another have had dealings with drugs," he said in an interview on "Power Spheres .

He explained that the major U.S. intelligence official here lasted about a year and a half and went from here to Bolivia. U.S. asked to help cleanse the police and military ranks.

August Figueroa Case

In another order, Vincho stated that in the case of Puerto Rican José David Figueroa in August those listed are a fraction.

"Figueroa himself is a particle of a structure," he said.

The lawyer said that the also known as "Junior Capsule" did not act for free because he was Colombian leadership structures in the Dominican Republic.

He warned that "if we neglect in the East are going to have extreme violence" because they are seeing signs of organized gangs.

"So hard that there are signs that it is to mourn, prosecutors and judicial officers who have had to kneel to ask bosses that have appeared in the East that will forgive the children and that they can not judge these gentlemen."

Castillo said that indicates a dangerous loss of space.

The child dies shot by father

SANTIAGO .- died yesterday afternoon the girl who had been wounded after being shot by his father, who also killed his grandmother 90 years and shot a younger son and his wife, community ponds, this county.

The demise of the smaller Herileydi Victoria Vargas, 14 years old, came at the regional university hospital José María Cabral y Báez, where he was connected to a ventilator.

The confirmation of the death of the girl did Kalermy Victoria Nunez, Edwin's sister Victoria Armando Nunez, author of the tragedy.

Victoria Nunez was shot in the neck whose projectile lodged in his brain had been removed by doctors at the hospital where she was admitted in serious condition.

His brother was shot in the chest and is recovering in hospital Arturo Grullon, of this city.

The father, author of the tragedy, gave police the same morning that the incident occurred.

This morning the family of the deceased child in the hospital made arrangements Cabral y Báez to furnish the body of his relative.

The Young Victoria Nunez explained that the remains of the girl Herileydi will be veiled in the house of his maternal relatives in the community of Zalaya, a short distance where he lived with his parents.

The brothers Edwin Herileydi and Victoria Vargas, this one 7 years old, were shot early Tuesday by his father Edwin Victoria Armando Nunez, 34, who also wounded his wife Iceland Vargas and killed his grandmother and foster mother, Maria Victoria Reyes Martinez, 90 years old.

Until this morning, Mrs. Vargas, who will be operated today from wounds in both arms at the hospital where Cabral y Baez admitted, unaware that her daughter had died.

According neighbors of the girl's father was accustomed to beat relatives, who claim to be a drug user.

National Police last night seized Major League baseball Ambriorix Burgos, accused of trying to poison his ex-wife

SANTO DOMINGO .- The National Police last night seized Major League baseball Ambriorix Burgos, accused of trying to poison his ex-wife, Dilenia Reynoso Hernandez, 26.

Burgos, who has been involved in several acts of violence, kidnapped the girl in the house of fiscal Nagua Township, where he was hidden for several days because her ex-partner threatened with death.

The player moved to the Capital in a white SUV and several units of the National Police intercepted him at the toll of a mile, near the Avenida Las Americas.

Rose Hernandez She told police that Burgos made her drink the substance known as

"Three little steps", which is used to kill rats.

Burgos is being held in jail in Nagua and the former wife to a clinic in the capital.

It is recalled that Burgos was deported from the United States accused of mistreating his wife.

Sobeida, housed at the National District Attorney Figueroa test links

The recluse Sobeida Felix Morel asked Friday to the National District Attorney's Office provides the proof that the alleged network involved in the Puerto Rican Jose Figueroa August.

He reported that next to the Puerto Rican caught conducting a normal life in Puerto Rico.

Sobeida Felix Morel and others involved in the network boricua José Figueroa August returned to the Second Court of Instruction of the National District.

Prior to the hearing, Sobeida Felix Morel pointed to the alleged evidence that the National District Attorney's Office claims to have against him.

Felix Morel also attacked the president of the National Directorate for Drug Control, Major General Matthew Rolando Rosado, who revealed that he had infiltrated an agent Mary Pelaez cell to investigate the whereabouts of Figueroa August.

Felix Morel Sobeida reported that she was moving normally to August Figueroa, who said negotiating his surrender with the judicial authorities in Puerto Rico. And do not rule out that the prison authorities have infiltrated someone.

Remove military weapon and kill him with it

A 75-year military retiree, was shot dead early on Thursday in Los Mina, by two youths on a motorcycle attacked him and stripped him of the weapon he was carrying with which he was shot.

Dionisio García was shot to death in the street Las Begonias at 6:30 am in the neighborhood of Puerto Rico, on his way to the house of his son.

Garcia died of a gunshot wound to the head that penetrated his forehead causing loss of brain tissue.

According to versions, a boarding school official's son, went to work inside and left his daughters to the care of her father.

"The son of he and his wife are working inside and left him here to look after us, because the thieves attempted to steal 15 days ago," said Mrs. Virginia Valenzuela, who is responsible for the care of the grandchildren of victim.

Residents in the San Antonio de los Mina said that insecurity has reached the point where people no longer conducts walks for exercise, for fear that the dock, as Elvis and Wilson explained Martinez.

"This is an emergency, if you have a ring cut off your fingers to steal it, we are frightened and do not want to go or to the grocery store," said Mrs. Angela Maria Sanchez, who spoke with journalists behind the bars of the gate of your home.

In the neighborhood complained that since it was completed about three months ago more police, detachment commander of Los Tres Brazos have no peace because the criminals are in your account.

They called the new police chief to have increased patrols in the area.

Dionisio's death has shocked the inhabitants of the place and others are afraid the same fate, especially women and adolescents.

Homes in good condition, clean streets are paved and some of the characteristics of the sector, but the residents keep their doors closed for fear of crime.

They said that at night people do not take to the streets for fear of crime.

They said the patrol is not as prevalent as in the past, so expect Maj. Gen. Jose Armando Gomez Polanco measures take place.

Revealed that the current police chief he served for a long time in Santo Domingo East, especially in Los Mina, where he was in criminal investigations.

RD should 'take care' of the evils of drug trafficking

San Juan, Puerto Rico. The criminologist at the University of Puerto Rico, José Raúl Cepeda Borrero, warned that the great danger facing the Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic at the moment is to go from being "bridges" or places of transhipment to niche consumer " , what they could create a serious social problem of drug addiction and a high-crime related to drug trafficking.

While holding on the debate on crime in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic appears to tread a new paradigm in drug trafficking activities, where the amount of drugs in the local market increases as the number of users, as can be inferred after reviewing the high number of drugs seized by the DNCD in the last twelve months and increasing service requests reported by Hogares Crea Dominicano.

The report by the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) said that from August 2009 to date, this institution has seized approximately 7.621 kilos of narcotic drugs, of which have been 5964.5 kilos of cocaine and kilos of marijuana 1614.9 .

The warning voices sound the alarm about the rising trend in drug consumption in the country gave the president of Hogares Crea Dominicano, Leopoldo Díaz, last May, when it revealed that more than four thousand people called for help in that institution in 2009 to "detoxify" the use of marijuana and hard drugs like crack, cocaine and heroin.

Household Statistics Create-leading drug rehabilitation center, establish that consumption is growing at a faster rate than the national economy, placing increasing by 10% annually.

Cepeda Borrero, "drug expert on the subject, in an interview with DL said that the countries of the Caribbean are showing increasing trends in both consumption and the sale of narcotic drugs and therefore stressed the urgency for governments" begin to interpret the signs they have in their territories and implement strategies based on their own context and realities. "

He said if anything has been proven strategies such as the DEA counternarcotics agencies is that they are effective and will not work because they never focused on the policy of prohibition and strong hand, arresting people and seizing drugs, but do not address the problem social behind the drug trade. "

He stressed that the fight against drugs must take into account the specific situation of each country, as the strategies of U.S. drug agencies are not a tailored suit that serves everyone. "Therefore it is urgent that the Caribbean countries to develop their own recipes to pursue drug trafficking because it is not the same as a drug route a consumer market."

He noted that there is no point pursuing the vice and the black market drug sales if not public health professionals has a structure that will deliver results in terms of rehabilitation of addicts. Said to be looking in the mirror of Puerto Rico, "where the struggle against drugs has consumed millions of dollars and the results are still minimal compared to the gravity of the problem."

For its part, the criminologist Gary Gutierrez, said that although there is often a perception that in Puerto Rico there are many social opportunities and financial aid due to its relationship with the U.S. and dollarized economy, "the truth is that a family with an income of two thousand dollars a month, which is the majority, remains living on the edge of poverty and social backwardness."

He explained that the lack of financial resources must be added the problems of domestic violence, family disputes and crimes against minors "all of which translates into high levels of social violence."

In the case of the Dominican Republic, stressed that economic growth is the best tool in the country to combat social exclusion and drug trafficking.

Currently the drug is a major health problem in Puerto Rico, with increasingly alarming statistics. An estimated 70,000 people are addicted and they pay about $ 3 million daily to buy drugs. The costs to the Go-? Ment over U.S. $ 600 million a year.

Man kills grandmother, wife and children hurt

It was in Las Charcas, Santiago, and say murderer was on drugs

Written by: ARROYO AND PEDRO JIMENEZ AQUINO de el nacional.com.do

Allegedly under the influence of drugs, a man shot and killed early this morning his grandmother 90 years, injured his wife and two children.

The incident occurred at the home of the family, the community of Las Charcas, Santiago.

The police identified the grandmother as Octavia Maria Reyes Martinez.

The perpetrator is Edwin Victoria Armando Nunez (Elvin), 34, who also wounded his wife Iceland Vargas Diaz, 27, and children of both Herileidi Victoria Vargas, 13, and Victoria Edwin Vargas, 7 .

Reyes Martinez's body was sent to the Forensic Pathology Institute.

The killer was arrested by police while walking in a street near the house where the crime was committed.

This morning, Mrs. Vargas Diaz was in the hospital José María Cabral y Báez, while their children underwent surgery at the Medical Center Dr. Arturo Grullon, shot in the neck and chest, respectively.

A sister of the perpetrator, who identified herself as Victoria Kalenny Núñez, told police that his brother is addicted to drugs and violent behavior has always been. "

He told his brother came home at 1:00 am and started arguing with his wife Iceland who fired twice. Then he went down to the first level of the house where he shot his grandmother and her two children.

According to the Public Relations Office of the Police, the incident occurred at 2:30 this morning.

Police said they found the house a Smith and Wesson pistol, seven 9mm shells, a knife, and a portion of a plant that could be marijuana.

The gun was registered in Interior and Police in the name of Jesus Sobeida Olga Reyes Rodríguez.

Neighbors said the killer used to beat his family when he did drugs.

72 illegal immigrants killed in Mexico

MEXICO. - The Mexican government investigates the murder of 72 suspected undocumented migrants from Central and South America seeking to reach the United States, presumably at the hands of drug cartel Los Zetas.

A spokesman for federal government security, Alejandro Poire, said Wednesday at a news conference that victims located Wednesday in a municipality of the northern state of Tamaulipas could correspond to migrants from countries like El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil, as stated a survivor of the slaughter that was identified as a citizen of Ecuador.

A spokesman for the Department of the Navy, Admiral Jose Luis Vergara, said the survivors told authorities that members of the cartel Los Zetas were behind the deaths of 58 men and 14 women, whose bodies were found on a ranch of the municipality of San Fernando, about 160 miles south of U.S. border city of Brownsville, Texas.

Poire said he has yet to confirm the identity of the victims, but for now Mexico and came into contact with authorities of the nations mentioned by the survivor to collaborate.

He said that the facts, which he described as "extremely serious" and "absolutely outrageous", given in an environment of increasing violence in the northeast of the country by a fracture and a "fierce battle" Los Zetas with their former allies Gulf cartel.

"What we illustrate (the facts) is that organized crime has no boundaries ... no ethical paragon," Poire said.

He said that in recent months the authority has received information that some criminal organizations involved in the kidnapping and extortion of migrants and has even been some attempts to recruit undocumented by the drug cartels.

To Poire, the resort that organized crime in extortion of migrants or recruitment "suggests that some organizations are facing an adverse situation to stock" of both financial resources as new killers.

The coordinator of advisors to the National Migration Institute, Antonio Diaz, said that so far 2010 have been detected around seven hijackings of migrants by organized crime.

Before the discovery, members of Mexico's Navy clashed with suspected drug traffickers, in an action that killed one sailor and three suspects.

Undersecretary for Latin America of the Foreign Ministry, Salvador Beltran del Rio, ruled that ocurride hurt bilateral relations with the nations of origin of victims, for which Mexico is constantly referred to the countries from where migrants face risks undocumented immigrants to cross its territory.

The Secretary of the Navy had said that the confrontation and the subsequent location of the bodies came after a man wounded by gunfire came to ask for help until a checkpoint of the Navy of Mexico.

Navy spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the injured person is a citizen of Ecuador, who is treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds and has begun giving testimony to the authorities.

The authorities arrested a Mexican minor as an alleged member of criminal group that had the alleged migrants.

San Fernando is considered a zone of influence of the cartel Los Zetas, a group blamed for the rising violence in the northeast of the country after a break with his former allies of the Gulf cartel.

Violence attributed to organized crime and drug trafficking has claimed more than 28,000 victims since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on drug cartels.

Granted freedom involved in fraud against Customs

SANTIAGO "For what they did not know here in the Dominican Republic there is no law to hear this. The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals for the District Court of Santiago gave a financial guarantee of 2.0 million pesos to each of those involved in the fraud for more than 100 million pesos from the regional offices of Customs.

With the decision the court remand replaced Estévez Herald Peña, Miguel Angel Rosa Adalberto Lazala and children of recognized leaders of the Dominican Liberation Party.

The accused must be submitted 30 days each month with the Attorney Prosecutor of Santiago. It also imposed a ban from leaving the country.

On July 27 passed the General Customs Directorate (DGA) submitted today to the Justice to three employees, including a son of a member elected by the Dominican Liberation Party, which dispatched vans full of items without using the verification and customs controls, which were implemented by more than 3.0 million pesos a month.

The submission also included the president of a freight company (Mudancera). The Office of Santiago reported that tax evasion is estimated at more than 100 million pesos.

Submitted by the Prosecutor's Office to include subcollectors Adalberto Santiago de la Rosa Rosario son, whose father is a deputy, current director of the National Institute of Snuff (Intabaco) and board member of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD); Herald Pena Estevez , store manager of the DGA for the company Logistic Now, Miguel Angel de Jesus Lazala Cabrera, flume Customs II, assigned to the company named, and José Ignacio Zapata, president of the freight company Papo Shipping.

"In research, versions of some of those involved, the group allegedly received an estimated 800 thousand and 900 thousand pesos per week for missing containers without being verified," says a note of Customs issued several weeks ago in relation to case.

Leonel makes inventing with engineer Héctor Rodríguez Pimentel

Each passing day has been assumed that the country goes to up front, that Leonel is the best way, but Leonel has a fight against corruption rather than trying to eradicate what it is that support to such an extent that if one its officials are corrupt is removed from office but was given another bigger.

When that happens it's like being told Rodriguez Pimentel continues to steal than to drown us many of our citizens, left the Indrhi pelerió, tried to blackmail bribed advertisers Alicia Ortega, but our distinguished chairman is not satisfied with that but take it out of his office and secretary without portfolio puts the Presidency.

Here there are only three people fighting corruption, they are:. Nuria Piera, Alicia Ortega y Yenny Berenice.

Agent Amet hits journalists in Higüey

HIGÜEY.-affiliates of the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) and the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) here deplored the abuses committed by members of the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority (AMET), in the eastern region, especially against journalists.

Guilds news in a press release expressing the Higüey journalists are hit often cited the beating that was the subject of journalist and cameraman Karen Kendy Joel Pérez Jiménez by a sergeant of the AMET, while covering an argument with motoconchos.

Accused the AMET to unsettle the people of Higuey with arbitrary operational, including physical abuse of citizens seizing the vehicle and arrest the owner.

Swole Sergeant recognizable as Scroying of AMET tried to snatch the camera and cameraman, arrested and handcuffed him.

Later, the cameraman was released by the intervention of Gov. Rafael Duluc male.

Journalist Rachire Nunez, secretary general of the Dominican College of Journalists in Higuey, said they will not allow any citizen abuse.

Called General José Aníbal Sanz, director of AMET, to control its agents and said that abuse to take Karen Perez journalist and cameraman, Kendy Jimenez to justice.

Ortiz did not rule Rachide journalists walking through the streets of Higuey to protest the abuses against citizens being made by metropolitan police officers.

Wyclef Jean in danger of death

The celebrated musician Wyclef Jean was in hiding for several days in Port au Prince, Haiti, because he was receiving death threats. The hip hop musician aspires to be President of Haiti, but still his candidacy and 30 other politicians have not been accepted by the electoral tribunal.

The hip hop musician Wyclef Jean said he was hiding because he received death threats as he and more than 30 potential candidates for the presidency of Haiti await authorization to participate in the elections.

Threats reported in a series of emails to the AP, which revealed few details. Jean said that he was ordered out of Haiti and is hidden in a secret location in the Caribbean country.

The musician, born in Haiti, said he did not know if the nation's electoral commission, known as CEP, approve his candidacy, but there have been questions about whether it meets the residency requirements to contest the November election.

"We hope the decision of the CEP, but the laws of the Haitian Constitution must be respected," said one of several emails

Inmate sentenced to 20 years Najayo escapes

SANTO DOMINGO-An inmate sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking escaped today, when he allegedly returned to the Najayo prison, where he kept in prison, after leaving custody to receive medical care.

The information was released the Directorate General of Prisons, who gave no details of the flight and that identifies the accused as Jimmy Oliver Rodriguez de la Cruz.

Prison warden explains that Najayo, Leoncio Made, reported that the commander of the Department of custody Echarvai Colonel Ricardo Vasquez, gave notice that Rodriguez de la Cruz escaped around 4:00 pm.

A press release said that the Security Director of Prisons, retired Maj. Gen. Holguin TMAs of Peace, in coordination with law enforcement authorities investigating the circumstances that gave the flight of the accused.

Leaks in the various prisons inmates are more frequent in recent days, especially in Najayo. The last case of Arturo Placencia Kelfren Valerio (Moses), accused of murdering the young Wellington Iturino Rafael Molina, son of the mayor of Cotuí, Rafael Molina Lluberes.

Valerio Placencia inmate also escaped together with Marcos Antonio Gomez (Tail), sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.