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WORLD CUP SOCCER:
02
days to go!
"See La Fanatica" here!
"Huelga
Total" Today
As announced and promised, today
Wednesday, will be a day of
protest and total work stoppage.
The protest is against the Tratado Libre de Comercio (free
trade agreement with the United
States) mainly, called by the
strongest of all public sector
employee union, the ANEP - the
Asociación Nacional de Empleados
Públicos.
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‘End of the world’ or
'hell' as captured by
Patricia Nethercote,
taken in Guayabo de
Bagaces, Guanacaste.
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ICE Employees Defraud
Institution
Two employees of the state
telecommunications monopoly, the
Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE), who worked
with cellular phones in the San
Pedro officers were detained by
officials of the Organismo de
Investigación Judicial (OIJ),
for allegedly committing fraud
against the institution for more
than ¢480 million colones
(us$900.000).
Be
Prepared For World Cup Fever
Come Friday
Friday morning, between the
hours of 7am and 12pm, if
you have an appointment at a
state hospital or need to do
your banking, forget it.
Abandoned Sailboat Makes it From
Costa Rica to Hawaii
A 33-foot sailboat abandoned in
Costa Rica seven months ago
apparently drifted thousands of
miles before being discovered
off Hawaii late yesterday
WORLD
CUP SOCCER:
Costa Rica Better Than in 2002,
Ssays Wanchope
Costa Rica's all-time leading
scorer Paulo Wanchope says the
Ticos are a better side than
four years ago when they
narrowly missed out on reaching
the knockout stages at the World
Cup.
Nicaraguans Protest Transport
Hike
Hundreds of Nicaraguans
peacefully protested the illegal
rise in public transportation
costs, energy cuts and the
attempts to privatize services
of potable water in Managua on
Tuesday.
Panama Strategizes for Avian Flu
General Secretary of the Central
American Integration System (SICA)
Anibal Quinonez stated Tuesday
that the region must firm up
tactics against avian flu as
this phenomenon has become a
threat to economic and social
resources.
Cuba: 45 Years of Free Education
Cuba has offered accessible,
free education for all its
citizens for 45 years, since on
June 6, 1961, the revolutionary
government decreed the Teaching
Nationalization Law.
Gunshots Heat up Mexico
Elections
A gunshot Tuesday against the
van in which family of
Argentinean businessman Carlos
Ahumada was traveling marred
Mexican elections, only some
hours before the second and last
debates among presidential
candidates.
Colombians
Learn to Read and Write
Nearly 300 illiterate Colombian
from Boyaca department,
Colombia, are receiving
Wednesday the first pilot
classes of the Cuban method "Yo
Si Puedo" (Yes, I Can), taking
place in 30 points of that
territory.
HEALTH-LATIN AMERICA:
The
Challenge of Paying for
Unremunerated Work
María
Angélica is a Chilean woman who
could not work in her profession
as a chef for nearly two years,
because she had to look after
her mother, who was ill.
Including this kind of unpaid
women's work in national budgets
is one of the big challenges
Latin America faces in order to
make progress in gender
equality.
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