Rain and Speeding Major Cause of
Fatal Traffic Accidents
Seven dead in the first ten days
is how September has begun and
with two thirds of the month to
go as traffic accidents become
more violent and fatal each day.
Just one of the 12 or
more high rise
condominium projects,
some which will tower 18
storeys, that are
changing the face of
Playa Jacó, once a small
beach community. Jacó
will soon be "Jacopulco". |
President Arias Headed North To
Attract Investment And Speak of
Peace
President Oscar Arias will be in
the United States on two
occasion this month, between the
13th and 21st, in search of
foreign investment and guest of
honour at a meeting offellow
Nobel winners.
Franklin Chang For President?
With a friendly smile and wave
of his had, Costa Rican
astronaut Franklin Chang ruled
out any possibility of running
for president of Costa Rica and
reaffirmed his conviction that
he could do more for the country
from private business.
Porteadores To Protest Again
Tomorrow
Get ready for another day of
traffic chaos, as the "porteadores"
are again taking to the streets
in protest.
Panama Banana Growers Face
Serious Debts
A cut in the US Chiquita
Brand transnational purchases
caused important economic losses
and millionaire debts to
Panamanian banana producers,
sources of the sector reported.
Guatemalans Hail Evo Morales
Visit
Guatemalan civil society
representatives are looking
forward to the visit of Bolivian
President Evo Morales early this
week, to attend the Latin
American Indigenous Foundation (FIL)
September 12 through 14.
Fidel Castro to Lead Cuba at NAM
Cuban President Fidel Castro
will officially head the Cuban
delegation to the 14th Summit of
the Non-Aligned Countries
Movement (NAM), Foreign Minister
Felipe Perez Roque informed,
adding that the statesman is
recuperating satisfactorily.
Venezuela Fights Inflation
Strategies of the government of
Venezuela to control evolution
of the Consumers Price Index
face the challenge of an
accumulated 10.4 inflation
between January and August,
likely to close near 15 percent
in 2006, according to National
Assembly Finance Committee
Chairman Rodrigo Cabezas.
Bolivia
Ruffled over Assembly
The Bolivian government this
week faced a regional strike
with poor results, which seems
to be a move by conservative
sectors to hinder the process of
change taking place in the
country.
LATIN AMERICA:
Mining an
Open Pit of Disputes
With skyrocketing metal prices,
revenues are flowing in some
Latin American countries, but
labour conflicts have
intensified apace in the mining
sector, where workplace dangers
are shared by some of the
region's best paid miners and by
several million poor.
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