Saturday, February 5, 2011

Mexicans returning from Egypt 11 after riots

Eleven Mexicans came to the country from Egypt, including Miguel Ramirez, who once was beaten by a mob and saved by the Egyptian Army. Ramirez, who was traveling in a taxi with an Argentine friend, was taken off the car by a group of youths armed with sticks, one of which hit him with a golf club. Miguel was the first to arrive in Mexico and was received by diplomatic authorities, including the general director Protection Mexicans Abroad Foreign Ministry, Daniel Hernández Joseph.

Arrived at the capital's airport after another group of 10 Mexicans, who have asked in recent days to be evacuated from Egypt. After 40 hours of flight, Monica Gutierrez arrived from Alexandria with his sons Daniel, Alexander and Matthew Ordoñana, eight, five and one years old, respectively, while Angela Garcia came out of Egypt to ensure the safety of their daughters Regina and Fernanda Cardona.

José Antonio Gutiérrez also arrived, Fernanda Gutiérrez and Rosa Ramirez. Joseph Hernandez said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), through its embassy in Cairo, has contact with 66 other Mexicans who for now have decided to stay in that country. He also reported that 35 other nationals were evacuated to Greece on a charter flight.

He added that Mexico has provided close its embassy in Cairo or reducing staff, but if you tighten security. Ramirez, who before coming to Mexico was in Madrid, thanked the Mexican authorities in Egypt and Spain for the support they received for medical care. In the boardroom of the SRE located in the capital's airport waiting for him and his mother, Maricarmen Sanchez Hernandez, his brother, Cristian Ramirez, and his girlfriend, Alejandra Lopez, who gave him a bouquet of roses.

Maricarmen Sanchez said her son spent 12 days in Egypt as a tourist. Miguel Ramirez, who lives in Puebla, said he will continue his activity in the commerce and advertising, as well as their spiritual activities, that led them to travel to Cairo. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Mohamed ElBaradei said he might run for president of Egypt in the upcoming September elections if the people ask, denying a report by an Austrian daily "Der Standard" in rejecting their submission.

"That's not true," ElBaradei told the Qatari Al Jazeera. "If the Egyptian people want to continue the process of change, I will not disappoint." ElBaradei has often tended to answer the question about whether you want to run for president, saying he was prepared to assume a role that could help Egypt achieve political change.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2005 has also said it would consider participating in the process if there was a chance to make the country free and fair elections. "I am an agent for change in Egypt. I'm beyond the games, which gives me more flexibility to express myself clearly, "ElBaradei said when asked if he was going to stand for election.

In Cairo, Arab League chief Amr Musa, who was chancellor of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and did not hide his intention to stand for election to succeed him, came to the square "as a gesture of appeasement." Musa joined the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand the resignation of Mubarak, and said he was available to the people.

In three decades, President Hosni Mubarak has failed to create an institutional framework for democratic transition, complicating an orderly transfer of power. The opposition, ranging from young dissidents lay to the Muslim Brotherhood does not want to go it alone, but also the ruling elite.

Opponents claim that Parliament is dissolved and the lifting of bans on parties repressed, and rapid and free elections. When Mubarak ends his tenure, the alternatives leave much to be concerned. The systematic repression have weakened all the major parties except the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

To compensate for institutional weaknesses and avoid a power vacuum, the broad national movement for change led by Nobel Peace Prize, Mohamed ElBaradei, calls for a transitional government. The first versions speak of a possible discussion of a "management board" to meet Vice President Omar Suleiman, the head of the Armed Forces, Sami Anan, ElBaradei, and Zeweil Ahmed, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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