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Sunday 06
April 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Poll
Shows Growth in Favour of Death Penalty
and Lynching and Torture of Criminals
A recent poll by Unimer
for the daily Spanish language daily La
Nación says that more than half of Costa
Ricans favour the death penalty and
lynching, while a third of those polled
support the idea of killing relapsing
criminals and for police use torture.
Costa Rica Now Has
Global Crossing
Costa Rica now has
Global Crossing that
will significantly
enhance the country's
internet capacity.
Space Cargo
Alliant Techsystems (ATK),
world leader in the
launching of cargo to
space and in chemically
fuelled rockets – whose
systems are used in the
launching of space
shuttles –, entered an
agreement with the local
AdAstra Rocket, led by
Costa Rican-born former
NASA astronaut Franklin
Chang, to carry the
latter’s plasma engine
to space.
Non-Stop New York-Guanacaste
Delta Airlines non-stop
flights to Liberia,
Guanacaste, from Atlanta
and Los Angeles have
reported an 80 percent
occupancy, which
prompted the carrier to
add another such service
linking New York and the
tourist hub on the Costa
Rican northwestern
Pacific.
Forest Fires
During the last two
weeks, over 600 hectares
(1,482 acres) of the
Guanacaste National Park
in the Costa Rican
northwestern Pacific
have fallen victim to
four fires, allegedly
started by poachers.
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Regional Elections
Suspended in Nicaragua
The Supreme Electoral
Council's decision to
suspend elections in
three municipalities of
the Nicaraguan Atlantic
coast is a harsh blow to
the Nicaraguan rightwing
opposition.
Culture Not Capital,
Cuban Minister
Cuban Culture Minister
Abel Prieto advocated
creating in people,
particularly youth,
solid cultural
references to challenge
false models of alleged
capitalist
postmodernism.
Four Injured As Small
Plane Crash-Lands in
Honduras
Four people were injured
as a small plane crash
landed Saturday on a
street in the Honduran
capital of Tegucigalpa,
said reports reaching
here from Tegucigalpa
said.
Ecuador Accuses CIA Of
Controlling Part Of Its
Intelligence
Ecuador's President
Rafael Correa accused
the CIA on Saturday of
controlling many of his
country's spy agencies
and passing information
to Colombia.
Venezuela, China: Oil
Joint Venture
Venezuelan state oil
company Petroleos de
Venezuela (PDVSA) and
the Chinese National
Petroleum Corporation
Service and Engineering
LTD agreed Saturday to
create a joint venture
for oil operations and
services, said PDVSA.
CUBA:
New Freedoms
Unaffordable to Many
The wall of prohibitions
that has marked Cuban
life for years has begun
to crumble, with the
lifting of the bans on
Cubans staying in
upscale tourist hotels
and buying mobile phones
and computers. The
obstacle now is the same
one faced by a majority
of people in any
developing country:
money, or lack thereof.
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