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...South American independence hero Simón Bolívar) have grown impatient with the U.S.- and OAS-led negotiation process. After Zelaya's ouster, ALBA crafted its own proclamation calling for his unconditional return and encouraging Hondurans to revolt against Micheletti. The Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS, Denis Moncada, went so far on Monday as to announce that Zelaya had dumped the San Jose Accord for the ALBA declaration, reporting that Zelaya had just said so "moments earlier" to leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega...
...Jail Free A judge freed Gilberto Rodri-guez Orejuela for good behavior, after the former boss of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel had served just seven years of his 17-year sentence for smuggling drugs to the United States. The Colombian government ordered an investigation into Judge Luz Amanda Moncada's conduct because ministers suspected corruption. MEANWHILE Dragon their feet Work on a New Zealand highway was stopped because of Karutahi, a legendary one-eyed dragon said to live in a swamp on the route. Sonny Wara of the Ngati Naho tribe said the dragon was "a feared thing...
...none of the larger experiments has followed suit. In Alamogordo, Inez Moncada, whom a 1987 cumulative vote turned into the 24%-Hispanic city's first Hispanic councilperson in decades, was re-elected handily in each subsequent vote. (The cumulative arrangement ended this year, however, and it remains to be seen whether she will retain her seat when the system reverts.) Peoria has had only one cumulative election, which created a black councilman...
...star witness was a Foreign Ministry employee, Marlene Moncada, who claimed to have been working as a double agent: she said a CIA agent recruited her last year in Honduras, where she was stationed at the Nicaraguan embassy. Cerna showed off an espionage kit allegedly provided Moncada by the CIA (Sony short-wave radio, edible paper, hollow Mayan book ends containing codebooks), as well as photographs of her meeting with Rodriguez and a color videotape montage of various other rendezvous. (The Sandinistas displayed a funny show-biz bent: the video agitprop had a musical sound track appropriate...
DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...