|
|
|
|
|
|
Costa
Rican Foreign Minister Roberto Tovar, left, speaks with French Junior Secretary of Foreign Affairs Renaud Muselier, right, outside the Ministry of Foriegn Affairs in San
Jose.
Muselier was in Costa Rica to donate approximately $ 1 million dollars on behalf of the government of France to help in the conservation of Cocos Island, one of Costa Rica's national
parks.
[Foto: Kent Gilbert]
|
|
| NEWS |
updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
Costa Rica Officials
Will Interrogate Fugitive Venezuelan U union
B boss Carlos Ortega
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Roberto Tovar has recognized that "certain indications effectively exist indicating possible anomalies" with regard to fugitive Venezuelan union leader Carlos Ortega's political asylum status in his country.
>more
Woman Charged in Fort Myers
With Hiding Fugitive Husband
A woman was arrested on charges she hid with her fugitive husband in Costa Rica after he faked his death to avoid prison time for tax evasion, federal prosecutors said.
>more
Among Latin American Jews,
diversity still a contentious issue
... in Costa Rica, where there are about 3,000 Jews, discrimination among Jews affects everyday life, said Moises Falchler, president of B’nai B’rith of Costa Rica.
>more
Mexico becomes net importer of US toxic waste: OECD
Mexico is a "net importer of toxic and hazardous waste from the United States," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) claimed on Wednesday.
>more
Iranian agent admits Iran's responsibility for attack in Argentina
A former member of the Iranian espionage services testified Wednesday that his country was behind the 1994 attack on a Jewish center in the Argentinian capital which left 86 dead.
>more
Schwarzenegger's s
wearing-in ceremony due on Nov. 17
California governor-elect Arnold
Schwarzenegger's swearing-in ceremony will be held
on Nov. 17, on the west steps of the State Capitol
in Sacramento, the Schwarzenegger transition
committee announced late Tuesday.
>more
Full News index
|
|
|
SPECIAL
REPORTS: ARGENTINA
|
Debating
the Best Way to Oppose the FTAA
As
the deadline for the launch of the Free
Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) edges
closer, public opposition to the project
for hemispheric integration is growing
in Argentina, and with it the debate on
the best way to challenge the free-trade
initiative.
From Nov. 20-26, the ''No to the FTAA''
coalition, which links a growing number
of local organisations, will invite
people to ''vote'' on the free trade
project, Argentina's foreign debt, and
plans for joint Argentine-U.S. military
exercises in this Southern Cone country
-- phenomena that the umbrella group
sees as tightly linked. >more
|
|
|
|
|
