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Crowd
sets fire to truck that lost control and ran
over a six year old girl yesterday in Limon.
The driver was forced to abandon his truck
and flee the scene after being threatened
with a lynching.
The little girl, Jeimy Chavarría, according
to witnesses, crossed the street on a red
light. Another girl (name not released) was
also injured in the accident.
[Foto: LaNACION]
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updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
Top Internet Sites
La Nacion, at
receiving numerous complaints, revised it's list of
top internet sites in Costa Rica as ranked in the
world by Alexa.com. In their revised report, they
include the top 50 sites, rather than only 15
reported on Sunday. This time around they also
included "adult" sites. >more
Casa
Alianza's Work Pays Off
"There are a
lot of important people who are probably very
concerned at the news of the arrest of Sinai",
commented Bruce Harris, the Latin American Regional
Director of Casa Alianza, the child defense agency
that has placed more than 300 criminal complaints
with the Special Prosecutor of Sex Crimes in Costa
Rica over the past two years. >more
Rica Foods Shares
Resume Trading
Rica Foods, Costa Rica's largest poultry producer, resumed trading shares today on the American Stock Exchange after a nine-month hiatus while the company settled charges under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
>more
Latin America's Population Ageing Quickly
Demographic
changes are occurring in countries that have not yet
eliminated poverty. >more
Embattled Bolivian president suspends gas plan, rules out resignation
Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez deLozada said Monday that he has decided to suspend the natural gas export plans, which have fueled massive, violent anti-government protests nationwide.
>more
Transportation strike paralyzes two Bolivian Cities
Two Bolivian cities of La Paz and El Alto have been paralyzed since Monday morning due to the strike
of the public transportation sector and the lack of fuel.
>more
New Yorkers
warned of mystery disease
The New York City Health
Department has issued an alert after five
residents in Staten Island, one of the five
boroughs of the city, were hospitalized with
what the department called a mystery
illness.
>more
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SPECIAL
REPORTS; CENTRAL AMERICA
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Declaring
War on Gangs
Harsh
measures for combating gangs are based
more on politics than public safety.
With names like the "Heavy Hand
Plan" in El Salvador, "Clean
Sweep" in Guatemala and
"Operation Freedom" in
Honduras, officials of Central American
countries are taking steps to combat the
gangs known as "maras" that
have flourished in the region.
The initiatives have a common
denominator: to increase prison terms
for gang members. In El Salvador and
Guatemala, however, the measures have
been spurred by electoral campaigns and
lack a coherent vision. >more
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