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White ( 1000655730) ; 75m ( 1000108206) $ 53 each GARITA PALMERA, El Salvador - A Salvadoran fisherman's account of his survival after more than 13 months and 10,000 kilometres in an open boat has proved a double miracle for his mother and father, who lost touch with him eight years ago and thought he was dead. Comments by Jose Salvador Alvarenga's joyful, sometimes tearful parents about their son might help explain how he survived, but they did little to dispel continued doubts about his tale. His father, Jose Ricardo Orellana, 65, who owns a store and flour mill in the seaside Salvadoran town of Garita Palmera, described a strong, stocky young man who went to sea at age 14. " The sea was his thing," Orellana said. His mother, Maria Julia Alvarenga, 59, broke into tears after recounting a phone call with her son from the Marshall Islands. He told her he was well, staying at a hotel and getting food and medicine - but told his mother he didn't know where he was. " We hadn't heard from him for eight years; we thought he was dead already," said Alvarenga. " This is a miracle, glory to God." Alvarenga's 14- year- old daughter, Fatima, said she didn't remember ever seeing her father, who left El Salvador when she was just over a year old. The parents said he was known in his hometown as Cirilo, a nickname that coincides with the first name of a man registered as missing with civil defence officials in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. The civil defence office said a small fishing boat carrying two men, named Cirilo Vargas and Ezequiel Cordoba, disappeared during bad weather on Nov. 17, 2012, and no trace of them or the craft was found despite an intense two- week search. - The Associated Press S OCHI, Russia - Stroking a Persian leopard sprawled on his lap, tough- guy President Vladimir Putin showed his softer side Tuesday as he prepared to welcome the world to his budget- busting Winter Olympics. Basking in the glow of support from International Olympic Committee chairman Thomas Bach, Putin began his stay at the Sochi Games by promoting a cuddly image, visiting a group of endangered Persian leopard cubs born last summer in the mountains above the Black Sea resort. " We've decided to restore the population of the Persian leopard because of the Olympic Games," Putin said. " Let's say that because of the Olympic Games, we have restored parts of the destroyed nature." Putin entered the cage and petted the leopard on the head. " We liked each other," he said. Some journalists accompanying him weren't so lucky. They apparently upset the leopard, which scratched one of them on the hand and bit another on the knee, Russian news agencies reported. In Putin's presence later, Bach used an IOC gathering to criticize politicians for attacking the Sochi Olympics " on the backs of the athletes" and to slam world leaders who snubbed the games. He said sports should not be " used as a stage for political dissent or for trying to score points in internal or external political contests." Without naming any individuals, Bach's comments appeared directed at U. S. President Barack Obama and European politicians who have taken stands against Russia's law banning gay " propaganda" among minors. " People have a very good understanding of what it really means to single out the Olympic Games to make an ostentatious gesture which allegedly costs nothing but produces international headlines," said Bach, a German lawyer and Olympic gold medal winner. The buildup to the Olympics has been overshadowed by Western criticism of the anti- gay law and Russia's record on human rights and other issues, making Sochi among the most politically charged games in years. Obama and key European leaders are shunning the Olympics. Obama, in a clear message against the antigay laws, has sent a delegation to Sochi made up of three openly gay athletes - tennis great Billie Jean King, 2006 Olympic hockey medallist Caitlin Cahow and figure skater Brian Boitano. Speaking to the same IOC meeting, Putin said nothing about the hard issues confronting the Sochi Games - cost overruns, unfinished hotels and an uproar in some countries over gay rights. He boasted Russia had undertaken the monumental effort of starting from scratch in Sochi and completing the needed construction in a short time, something he said it took other countries decades to prepare. " We realize what a difficult decision this was to hold the games in a city that barely had 10 to 15 per cent of the necessary infrastructure," Putin told the IOC. " You believed in us, you believed in the Russian character which can overcome all difficulties." The former KGB operative has thrown open the Kremlin treasury to finance the Olympics, lavishing $ 51 billion on sports facilities and transportation infrastructure in Sochi. Despite the record amount spent on the games, Sochi has seen its share of negative media attention in recent days over plans to euthanize packs of stray dogs making headlines and journalists complaining hotels simply aren't ready for guests. Putin's visit to the leopard preserve was designed as a show of environmental concern during the Sochi Games, which open Friday. The sanctuary was established five years ago as an Olympics- related project. With the vast sum Putin invested in the games, he has turned the oncesleepy resort into a kind of Disneyland of phantasmagorical structures - new highways, sweeping overpasses and top- notch sports venues. Winding roads and rail lines to newly built alpine facilities were cut upward into the mountains. While the massive project doesn't represent a do- or- die moment for Russia, the most expensive Olympics in history - with billions of dollars reportedly lost to graft - will reverberate through the economy and Kremlin politics. Putin's third term as president will end in 2018. The IOC has come under criticism for not doing more to fight the antigay law, but Bach said the committee was a sports organization with limited responsibilities. - The Associated Press Survivor's story ' a miracle' for parents Putin arrives in Sochi, gets cosy with cat Plays cute as criticism continues By Steven R. Hurst and Stephen Wilson ALEXEI NIKOLSKY, PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Russian President Vladimir Putin pets a snow leopard at a sanctuary in Sochi. Jose Salvador Alvarenga A_ 11_ Feb- 05- 14_ FP_ 01. indd A11 2/ 4/ 14 9: 31: 53 PM ;