Porteadores Take To The Streets
Today
The informal taxis or
Porteadores will take to the
streets today in a massive
protest against the government's
position to eliminate the "porteo"
- the informal taxi service -
from the Codigo de Comercio (Commerical
code) and issue some 3.000
Portedaores taxi plates.
John Paul II will watch
over San José, as a
statue of the late
Pontiff, a sculpture by
Jorge Jiménez Deredia,
was installed in front
of the Catedral
Metropolitana. It took
25 men and a huge crane
to erect the 25.000 Kg,
4.1 metre, statue made
of Italian Carrara
marble. |
Racist
Remarks At Soccer Games Not
Sanctionable
Yelling out racist insults and
being a total idiot at a
football (soccer) game in Costa
Rica will not be punished and
neither will the offenders be
ejected or banned from future
games.
Costa Rica Registers 4500
Assaults
The Costa Rican Official
Judicial Research Department (IRB)
reported Monday that there have
been 4,500 reported assaults in
the first eight months of 2006,
most of them with firearms.
Costa Rica Ratifies
Inter-American Convention
Against Terrorism
Costa Rica has joined the United
States and 19 other nations in
the Western Hemisphere in
ratifying a regional pact
designed to eliminate the
financing of terrorism and to
deny safe haven to suspected
terrorists.
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
2006; Canada and USA Off To Rio
Beach Party
The U.S. team was named top dogs
of the week-long competition in
Punta Leona, Costa Rica, even
before playing their fourth and
final match.
Calderón Five Suspect Being
Treated There
In an ironic development, Juan
Carlos Ledezma, the young man
who is the prime suspect in the
fire at the Calderón Guardia
hospital last year is now being
hospitalized in the same
hospital.
INS
Cancels Unemployment Insurance
For many who lost their jobs
through firing they could count
on their Instituto Nacional de
Seguros (INS) insurance policy.
Panama Sets up Pro-Five
Committee
A committee for the release of
five Cuban anti-terrorist
fighters unfairly imprisoned in
the US was set up in Panama, to
spread the case and join forces
to free them.
Guatemalan Troops to UN
Haitian Mission
A Guatemalan military contingent
of 80 soldiers and officers went
to Port-au-Prince Monday to
relieve the forces participating
in the UN Stabilization Mission
in Haiti.
Guatemala Calls for Anti-Drug
Policy
Guatemala´s Acting President
Eduardo Stein called Monday for
a more integral policy against
drug traffic that actively
involves the consuming
countries.
El Salvador Off Beam with Crime
Fight
El Salvador human rights
attorney Beatrice de Carrillo
strongly criticized the
Executive Monday for focusing
the fight against crime chiefly
in new bills, such as
anti-terrorism.
Iran,
Venezuela Start Energy Project
Iranian President Mahmud
Ahmadineyad attended the
beginning of the perforation of
an oil well Monday in the
Venezuelan Strip of the Orinoco
River for the certification of
reserves of that important
region.
COLOMBIA:
Bombs
Explode in Government's Face
The
widow of a garbage picker killed
by a car bomb reportedly placed
by army officers to simulate an
attack by leftist rebels has yet
to receive reparations from the
government.
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