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San José, Costa Rica -
Wednesday 12 January 2005
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National Emergency Declared For Floods
Costa
Rica's president, Abel Pacheco, yesterday declared a
national emergency for the Caribbean zone affected by the
rain and floods of the last several days.
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148 Earthquakes Registered So Far This
Month
January has been a moving month so far. The Red Sismológica
Nacional UCR-ICE has detected 148 earthquakes in the last
eleven days, though the only ones felt by were the 4.0 in
Quepos on January 2, the 4.2 in Pérez Zeledón on January 10
and the 4.2 in Alajuelita (San José) that same morning and
the 4.5 in the Península de Osa registered yesterday.
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Prison Overpopulation Still A Problem
The Ministerio de
Justicia (Justice Ministry) has been battling overcrowding
at the country's jail and when it though it had it almost
under control, with the addition of more than 1.000 beds,
the situation had actually worsened.
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Dream Holiday Turns to Nightmare
A German professor who went
on a dream holiday to Costa Rica woke up in an airport
departure lounge to find his leg had been amputated. The
professor said he had gone to see a doctor at a hospital in
San Jose because his left foot was swollen.
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US-Venezuelan relations could
improve: senator
US-Venezuelan relations could
improve in the short term, US
congressman Christopher Dodd, a
Connecticut Democrat, was quoted
by the El Universal daily as
saying Tuesday. more
Colombian
journalist dies after gunmen
attack
A
Colombian journalist died
Tuesday after being shot by two
gunmen in Cucuta, capital of
Norte de Santander department,
police said. more
Landslide
kills at least three children in
Mexico
Landslides killed at least three
children early Tuesday morning
following heavy rains in the
northeastern Mexican state of
Baja California. more
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HONDURAS
Futile
strike?
Six months after teachers’
strike, little has changed.
In Villa Nueva, a poor community
on the edge of the capital
Tegucigalpa, an elementary
school founded in 2001 still
lacks a building. The school’s
150 or so children meet instead
in two houses rented by the
students’ parents. Marlene
Euceda, one of the school’s four
teachers, said the roof of one
house leaks so much that when it
rains she cancels class.
President of Congress and
presidential hopeful Porfirio "Pepe"
Lobo has donated a roof for one
house, and furniture. But the
David Corea Sánchez public
school has yet to receive even a
piece of chalk from the
Education Ministry, the
government institution
supposedly responsible for its
administration.
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