What Newly Elected Chilean President Sebastian Piñera Means For The Future Of Chile

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• Guest January 19, 2010

  Here is a story you will never see on CNN. http://www.torontosun.com/news/haiti/2010/01/19/12531186.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Mexican rescue team rejoiced Tuesday after finding an elderly woman alive amid the pile of concrete rubble at this Haitian capital's cathedral. Salvador Arturo Acuna Rico was one of the Cancun rescuers who found a 70-year-old woman in perfect health after being trapped for a week. "She was praying," he said, adding that's how they heard her in the middle of the collapse building. "She was conscious - really, really healthy. No broken bones." Search and rescue workers from Germany believe another person may be alive in the building that once housed the cathedral's priests. Another two people are believed to be alive in a nearby building, said rescuer Frank Schultes. althia.raj@sunmedia.ca

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• Guest January 19, 2010

  Can you blog about how CNN will not mention the nationality of the rescue workwers in Haiti if they are Mexican? They showed a team of rescuers extract a 70 year old woman from a cathedral, but they failed to mention where they were from. Whenever I see them omit the nationality of the rescue workers and I do a search online, I find out that they are Mexican. CNN is racist and I am getting sick of it. One would think that in this time of terrible crisis for Haiti that CNN would put its anti-Mexican racism aside and report the news! This story is from the Toronto Sun: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Mexican rescue team rejoiced Tuesday after finding an elderly woman alive amid the pile of concrete rubble at this Haitian capitalOs cathedral. Salvador Arturo Acuna Rico was one of the Cancun rescuers who found a 70-year-old woman in perfect health after being trapped for a week. OShe was praying,O he said, adding thatOs how they heard her in the middle of the collapse building. OShe was conscious - really, really healthy. No broken bones.O Search and rescue workers from Germany believe another person may be alive in the building that once housed the cathedralOs priests. Another two people are believed to be alive in a nearby building, said rescuer Frank Schultes.

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• Guest January 20, 2010

  los rescatistas mexicanos (los topos) aunque pocos, son de los mejor capacitados en el mundo. esto a raiz del Terremoto del 85.

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• Guest January 20, 2010

  Here is the story from the Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6994649.ece Amid the uncountable horrors of Haiti, the sight of an elderly woman pulled alive and singing from the rubble of a cathedral exactly a week after the earthquake devastated the country has been hailed as nothing short of a miracle. Anna Zizi was praying in Haiti's Roman Catholic cathedral when the 7.0 magnitude eathquake struck, destroying the building and crushing those w ithin. Today, just two hours short of a full week after the quake, Ms Zizi, caked in debris and dust was pulled from the ruins and driven by truck to hospital. "It was an amazing thing to witness, no one could believe she was still alive," said Sarah Wilson, of the charity Christian Aid. "It seems rescuers were communicating with her and managing to get water to her through a tube. She was singing when she emerged. Everyone clapped and cheered," she added. The Mexican firefighters who rescued Ms Zizi, whose age was given as 69 or 70, wept and hugged each other as she was placed on a makeshift stretcher. Her amazing survival gave hope to the hundreds of rescue workers still digging for survivors in the ruins of the capital, where the stench of crushed and decomposing corpses filled the air....

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• Guest January 20, 2010

  Now here is the same story from the CNN website. No mention that the rescue team was from Mexico, even though they identify origins in all of their other rescue stories. CNN hasn't changed! Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Rescue workers pulled a woman out of rubble near Haiti's national cathedral Tuesday, a week after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck. The rescue crews believe two other people may be alive under wreckage nearby, in part because of a text message the crews believe was sent from under the rubble, a CNN crew reported. Men carried the woman, Ena Zizi, who is in her 70s, from the rubble on a wooden board as she grasped its edges. They took her to a nearby clinic, although it doesn't have the operating facilities needed to treat her, the CNN crew reported. Zizi's right femur was fractured and she was in shock, the crew reported. Her son, Maxime Janvier, told CNN that he never gave up hope that she'd be found. "We were praying a lot for that to happen," he said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that about 90 victims have been saved by 43 international rescue teams, made up of some 1,700 people, in the days after the quake. The earthquake struck the afternoon of January 12. Its epicenter was just south of Port-au-Prince. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/19/haiti.earthquake.rescue/index.html

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• LOLImNotClever January 21, 2010

  Chilean politics, really? This is all a clever ruse Cindy is using to get into Simian's pants.

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