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Eight Lawyers Arrested For Phony
Marriages
Getting married in Costa Rica is
simple. A visit to a lawyer or a
notary public, a signature here
and one there, and presto, you
are no married. Never met your
spouse? Is that important. Well,
not so, depending on the reason
for the union.
Laura Chinchilla (far
right) - vice-president
and minister of Justice,
looks over the more than
1.000 make-shit weapons
confiscated from
prisoners at the La Reforma prison in a
routine search. A
cellular telephone a box
containing an
unspecified amount of
crack cocaine was also
uncovered. |
Industrialists Against New Dec
1st National Holiday
The president of the Cámara de
Industrias, Jack Liberman, said
that his members are opposed to
the government's proposal for a
new "legal" holiday, a proposal
presented before the legislature
last week that would make
December 1 a national, paid,
holiday.
Taxi Fare Hike Only To Adjust
For Inflation, Taxi Association
Promises
Taxi fares will soon be more
expensive, however, taxi drivers
are asking for only a 6%
increase in fares.
"No
Booze" Weekend Coming Up
Sunday December 3rd is election
day as voters go to the polls to
choose their community leaders
in the Municipal elections. And
as such the law requires that
all liquor, been and wine stop
flowing.
Arias Intends To Tell Bush No To
the Border Wall With Mexico
Costa Rican president, Oscar
Arias, said yesterday that at
his meeting on 6 December with
United States president, George
W. Bush, he will express his
opinion of his opposition to a
border wall between the U.S. and
Mexico and that he will attend
the swearing-in ceremony of
Felipe Calderòn next Friday.
Cable Theft Leaves Thousands in
the Dark
Residents
in the area south of San José -
Barrio Cuba, Sagrada Familia and
parts of Hatillo - the power
failure that kept the area in
the dark for hours was a result
of the growing problem of cable
theft.
Ortega Swear-in, Down to
Business
A foreign investors meeting one
day after Daniel Ortega's
swearing-in ceremony in
Nicaragua reaffirms that foreign
capital trusts in the Sandinista
administration.
Salvador
Archbishop Fosters Anti-Criminal
Law
San Salvador Archbishop Fernando
Saenz recommended to the
National Citizen Security
Commission to speed up its
proposals about the Law against
the Organized Crime, local media
reported on Monday.
African
American Communities to Meet in
Honduras
The ONECA (Central American
Black Organization) will debate
in Honduras about human rights,
facing up to the free trade
agreement with the United
States, and integration among
communities, starting on
November 30.
Colombia
Political Scandal Snowballs
The disclosure of a political
deal signed by 40 congress
people and heads of the United
Autodefenses of Colombia (AUC)
is on Monday the new chapter in
what is called the para-politics
scandal, referring to alleged
links between paramilitary
groups and politicians in this
nation.
Analyst
Says Latin American Unity No
Accident
Nicaraguan analyst Aldo Diaz
Lacayo said that left-wing
governments' arrival to power in
Latin America, whose recent
examples are currently
represented by Nicaragua and
Ecuador, has an objective
explication, and is not
spontaneous.
COLOMBIA:
Keeping
the Words - and the Whales -
Alive
"They take care of their
children and drive their
husbands away" sing the "cantaoras".
Verse by verse, the traditional
black singers describe the
mating ritual of the humpback
whales that visit their breeding
grounds in Malaga Bay on
Colombia's Pacific coast from
June to November.
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