17-10-2006, 11:35:51
Vaya. Pero además el cuerpo de la noticia no apoya lo que dice el titular. Que dos personas tengan pasaportes nicaragüenses falsos no implica relación. Tanto más cuanto que, al parecer, la falsificación de pasaportes nicaragüenses era práctica común, con casi 50.000 pasaportes cuyo destino se perdió en un momento dado:
Moving to prevent further illicit use of Nicaraguan passports by international terrorists and other foreign allies of the country's former Sandinista administration, the Government has begun issuing a new travel document for its citizens.
The measure is an effort to put an end to a problem that has plagued the Government of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios since it took office in 1990 and discovered that some 50,000 passports could not be accounted for. It is now known that the Sandinistas gave nearly 1,000 to sympathizers from foreign countries who lived here, but the rest disappeared and some have turned up in the unlikeliest of places.
As soon as it became aware of the mysterious disappearances, the Chamorro Government ordered new passports to be issued and invalidated the old type. But negotiations between Mrs. Chamorro and the outgoing revolutionary Government, which came to power in 1979, left a Sandinista official in charge of the department that handles immigration matters until 1993, and irregularities continued.
"No doubt Nicaraguan passports will now be more secure than in the past," Foreign Minister Ernesto Leal Sanchez said in an interview. The change was necessary, he added, if Nicaraguans are to be "treated with respect" at customs and immigration posts around the world and for the country to project "a different image to the world."
A first shipment of 5,000 of the new passports, produced under contract by a French company, arrived here in January. By the end of March, officials said, a total of 400,000 of the new passports, which have features intended to make them less susceptible to fraud, will be available.
In an interview, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Nicaragua's former President and the Sandinista National Liberation Front's likely candidate in elections scheduled for October, denied that his Government had been responsible for the loss of the passports.
"It was all controlled, nothing was hidden and everything was accounted for," he said. "Afterward it was manipulated" to blame the Sandinistas, he said.
The investigation of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 turned up five legitimate Nicaraguan passports in the possession of people who had never set foot in the country, and when Iraqi troops withdrew from Kuwait in February 1991, they left behind a large quantity of Nicaraguan passports, says Rene Vallecillo, a Finance Ministry official.
"The Nicaraguan passport has been prostituted, and we want to regain credibility so that Nicaraguans can travel anywhere in the world without worry," Mr. Vallecillo said. "We want the rest of the world to have full confidence in our documents."
Government officials appear less certain of how to deal with the problem of some 900 foreigners who were granted Nicaraguan citizenship during the last two months of Sandinista rule. They include members of Italy's Red Brigades, Spanish Basque separatists from the group E.T.A., at least three dozen Arabs and Iranians from Islamic militant groups and representatives of virtually every guerrilla organization in Latin America.
If naturalized Nicaraguans "dedicate themselves to conspiracy or criminal activities, the Government does not want them to enjoy the privileges of Nicaraguan nationality," Mr. Vallecillo said of the Sandinistas' foreign allies. But "times have changed, the polarization of the past no longer applies and we don't believe they are now engaged in such activities."
As a result, the roughly 900 former internationalists will have the right to apply for the new Nicaraguan passports, just like native-born Nicaraguans, Mr. Vallecillo said. "Each person is an individual, to be judged case by case," he added
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...A960958260
Ahora bien, las "fuentes" de estos "periodistas", de pena.
Moving to prevent further illicit use of Nicaraguan passports by international terrorists and other foreign allies of the country's former Sandinista administration, the Government has begun issuing a new travel document for its citizens.
The measure is an effort to put an end to a problem that has plagued the Government of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios since it took office in 1990 and discovered that some 50,000 passports could not be accounted for. It is now known that the Sandinistas gave nearly 1,000 to sympathizers from foreign countries who lived here, but the rest disappeared and some have turned up in the unlikeliest of places.
As soon as it became aware of the mysterious disappearances, the Chamorro Government ordered new passports to be issued and invalidated the old type. But negotiations between Mrs. Chamorro and the outgoing revolutionary Government, which came to power in 1979, left a Sandinista official in charge of the department that handles immigration matters until 1993, and irregularities continued.
"No doubt Nicaraguan passports will now be more secure than in the past," Foreign Minister Ernesto Leal Sanchez said in an interview. The change was necessary, he added, if Nicaraguans are to be "treated with respect" at customs and immigration posts around the world and for the country to project "a different image to the world."
A first shipment of 5,000 of the new passports, produced under contract by a French company, arrived here in January. By the end of March, officials said, a total of 400,000 of the new passports, which have features intended to make them less susceptible to fraud, will be available.
In an interview, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Nicaragua's former President and the Sandinista National Liberation Front's likely candidate in elections scheduled for October, denied that his Government had been responsible for the loss of the passports.
"It was all controlled, nothing was hidden and everything was accounted for," he said. "Afterward it was manipulated" to blame the Sandinistas, he said.
The investigation of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 turned up five legitimate Nicaraguan passports in the possession of people who had never set foot in the country, and when Iraqi troops withdrew from Kuwait in February 1991, they left behind a large quantity of Nicaraguan passports, says Rene Vallecillo, a Finance Ministry official.
"The Nicaraguan passport has been prostituted, and we want to regain credibility so that Nicaraguans can travel anywhere in the world without worry," Mr. Vallecillo said. "We want the rest of the world to have full confidence in our documents."
Government officials appear less certain of how to deal with the problem of some 900 foreigners who were granted Nicaraguan citizenship during the last two months of Sandinista rule. They include members of Italy's Red Brigades, Spanish Basque separatists from the group E.T.A., at least three dozen Arabs and Iranians from Islamic militant groups and representatives of virtually every guerrilla organization in Latin America.
If naturalized Nicaraguans "dedicate themselves to conspiracy or criminal activities, the Government does not want them to enjoy the privileges of Nicaraguan nationality," Mr. Vallecillo said of the Sandinistas' foreign allies. But "times have changed, the polarization of the past no longer applies and we don't believe they are now engaged in such activities."
As a result, the roughly 900 former internationalists will have the right to apply for the new Nicaraguan passports, just like native-born Nicaraguans, Mr. Vallecillo said. "Each person is an individual, to be judged case by case," he added
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...A960958260
Ahora bien, las "fuentes" de estos "periodistas", de pena.
[A los creyentes] les competerá difundir lo que otros han acuñado; ya que ningún hombre suelta y expande la mentira con tanta gracia como el que se la cree.