Archive for December 15th, 2006
Lethal injection of Latino tortuous, not instantaneous
12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Florida|Justice · 3 Comments
15 Dec 2006
Death by lethal injection is supposed to be one of most “painless” methods of execution of prisoners condemned to this fate. But this apparently was not the case in the execution of Ángel Nieves Díaz, a Latino prisoner in Florida. It took two injections to kill him and witnesses claim that his death was anything but painless:
The execution yesterday of Puerto Rican Angel Nieves Díaz has revived controversy over the use of lethal injection as a method of execution for prisoners in the state of Florida, as the the prisoner needed two doses of the lethal cocktail, which prolonged his agony for a full 34 minutes.Nieves Díaz, sentenced to death for a 1979 murder, took 34 minutes to die because, according to the state’s prison department, he suffered a kidney condition that impeded his body from metabolizing chemical subtances quickly.
Castro close to death, says U.S.
12:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · Comments Off
15 Dec 2006
The U.S. government is claiming that Cuban leader Fidel Castro is extremely ill and near death, reports Reuters:
Everything we see indicates it will not be much longer … months, not years,” Negroponte told The Washington Post.
As speculation swirls around what will happen when Castro actually does die, a Gallup poll shows that 47% of Cubans agree with Castro’s regime:
The Gallup poll released Thursday showed that 47 percent of the Cubans polled approved the job performance of their leaders and 40 percent disapproved.
The flip side of the poll is that the Cubans polled say they aren’t satisfied with the personal liberty they have under Castro’s rule:
Only one in four Cubans declared to be satisfied with their levels of personal freedom. By contrast, four out of every five Latin Americans said they were satisfied with their personal freedom.
Via / Reuters and Miami Herald
Pinochet’s First Choice Wasn’t the Fire Pit
12:16 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile|Politics · Comments Off
15 Dec 2006
The Chilean dictator formally known as Augusto Pinochet orginally didn’t want to be cremated since it went against his “Christian” beliefs. He decided to go for cremation instead of a memorial for himself because of concerns of his tomb being bombed and to avoid problems for his family and the nation of Chile.
Well wasn’t that thoughtful of him?
Via / Univision
Hugo Chavez’s Win in Venezuela Official
9:32 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Politics|Venezuela · 1 Comment
15 Dec 2006
For those of you hoping that Hugo Chavez’s reelection in the Venezuelan presidential election would be called into question because of fraud or irregularities, you better stop holding your breath.
Preliminary reports of the recent Venezuelan elections, supported in new information by electoral authorities, show on Thursday the Republic s President Hugo Chavez as winner.The most recent figures of the National Electoral Council (CNE), with 98.29 percent of counted votes, grant the head of State 7,274,331 votes, or 62.87 percent.
Chavez main opposition candidate Manuel Rosales has 4,266,974 votes, equivalent to 36.88 percent.
While there still are about 2 percent of votes still left to be counted, those votes still couldn’t close the 26 percent lead that Chavez has.
Via / La Prensa Latina
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