2004News

New ambassadors

President Hipolito Mejia received the accreditation letters of several new ambassadors yesterday at the Presidential Palace. These diplomats are Soren Haslund from Denmark, Peter Black from Jamaica, Fatos Tarifa from Albania, Gian Federico Pedoti from Switzerland and Alvaro Jose Sevilla Siero from Nicaragua. Ambassador Haslund is concurrently Ambassador of Denmark to Mexico, Cuba and Haiti …
2004News

Editorials on the strike

Predictably, the main theme of this morning’s editorial comments is analysis of the impact and implications of the general strike that began yesterday. Diario Libre’s main editorial column, headed “Paradoxes”, muses on the contradiction between democracy and protests. In a democracy, it says, even “the most misguided or lost causes” have the right to be …