MEXICO: SOFTWARE IS DESIGNED TO TEACH INDIGENOUS CHILDREN THEIR MOTHER LANGUAGE
A new software designed for indigenous children to reinforce learning of their mother tongue and to develop their capabilities in science and other areas, was presented by the General Management of Indigenous Education (DGIE, Spanish initials) on February 21, celebrating the International Day of the Mother Tongue.  The program named “Educational Mosaics and Sea of Letters” is designed in the languages Naguatl, Hñahñu, Tutunakú, Maya and Spanish and is the product of joint work by indigenous teachers to develop and translate the software, explained the director of DGEI, Rosalinda Morales.  In this way, the quality of education that he indigenous peoples receive is confirmed, as well as, the legitimate education of the roots, the preservation of their languages, and the awareness of their traditional ways, stated Morales.

SPAIN:  GARZON BELIEVES THAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS FABRICATED A CRIME TO HAVE HIM EXPELLED
The ex-judge Baltasar Garzon present on February 21 an appeal to nullify his sentence before the Spanish Supreme Court of 11 years of disbarment for having ordered a wiretapping of the heads of a corruption network in conversations in prison with their lawyers.  Garzon maintains that the sentence of the Supreme Court is “gravely erroneous” and is founded on an interpretation of penal norms that are based on an absolute distortion of the Penal Code.

ECUADOR:  COURT OF THE HAGUE SUSPENDS SENTENCE AGAINST CHEVRON GIVEN IN ECUADOR
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague suspended the enforcement and recognition of the sentence of the Sucumbios Court in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador that had ordered Chevron to pay $18 billion to those affected by the contamination of the Texaco Company from 1972 to 1990 during oil drilling operations, in a ruling Friday, February 17.  The lawyer for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs, Pablo Fajardo, said that “we do not recognize that Court as valid.  If Chevron wanted to block the enforcement of the sentence, it should have appealed to the proper mechanisms that are offered through the Ecuadorian legal system and not to the court that attempts to impose economic interests over the rights  of justice of those affected by Chevron.”