San José, Costa Rica -
Saturday 15 January 2005
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Weather Threatens Again the Caribbean
According to the forecast by the Instituto Meteorológico
Nacional (IMN) - the weatherman - a cold front accompanied
by rain and strong winds will threaten the battered
Caribbean area once more. The northern part of the Caribbean
coast will be most affected.
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Teletica Telethon Yesterday; Today
Repretel To Do the Same
At 11:30am
yesterday the band struck the first note of the campaign "un
rojo por un hermano" as the Teletica telethon officially got
underway across the street at the television station's
offices in La Sabana park, to raise money and items of
necessities for those affected by rain and flood in the
Caribbean zone.
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Arias Makes It Official, Seeks the
Presidency
Óscar Arias Sánchez,
if he were to win the 2006 election, would be the first
former president to take the presidential chair since
re-elections were banned back in the late 1940's.
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Region Lacks Proper
Tsunami Alert
No surprise that
Costa Rica does not have a
system to detect and alert the
population of the coastal areas
about the threat of a tsunami.
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More Freedom of the Press
Costa Ricans believe that
today the press has more freedom
to inform about any issue; they
also give high grades to the
performance of the media. Three
years ago, the feeling was that
journalists met too many
obstacles when investigating
certain issues.
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Lower Death Toll from
Road Accidents
The mandatory wearing of
safety belts, the obligatory vehicle emission and mechanical
tests, and the prevention campaigns have proven effective to
lower the number of deaths in road accidents,
Transportations officials say.
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Venezuela suspends diplomatic, commercial ties
with Colombia
Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez on Friday froze his country's diplomatic and commercial
relations with Colombia and said they will not be resumed until
Bogota apologizes for "the abduction of a Colombian rebel leader
from Venezuela."more
Brazil to help clear landmines in tsunami-hit
countries
Brazil will participate in
the operations clearing anti-personnel mines in some Asian countries
affected by the Dec. 26 tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, military
sources said Friday.
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Mexico defuses tensions in prison housing top
drug lords
Mexico has restored security
in a prison housing the nation's most notorious drug lords and
kidnappers, security officials said Friday. more
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MEXICO:
Zapatista
Guerrillas Quiet but Still
Present in Chiapas
Eleven years after a government
decree that suspended army
attacks on the indigenous
Zapatista guerrillas in southern
Mexico, the government of
Vicente Fox has concluded that
the insurgent group has become a
thing of the past.
However, lawmakers and human
rights activists told IPS that
the president was mistaken in
writing off the Zapatista
National Liberation Army (EZLN).
Although they recognise that the
group's political influence has
waned, the sources pointed out
that the EZLN remains active
among indigenous people in the
southern state of Chiapas, and
that the problems that prompted
the rebels to take up arms in
early 1994 remain virtually
unchanged.
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