The
Week in Review: 24 March 2003
to 29 March 2003
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Abortion for raped 9-year-old touches off angry debate among Nicaraguans
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A child's private
ordeal has touched off divisive debate in Nicaragua, where an abortion on the
9-year-old rape victim outraged the influential Roman Catholic Church, toppled a
Cabinet minister and brought demands for liberalization of pregnancy laws.
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Frustrated assault of armored truck ends life
of two guards
Mariana Barboza
Telenoticias
This
happened last Saturday in Alajuela the past and the police apprehended one
of the suspected assailants.
Minutes before 8pm, the guards of an armored truck of the company SECURICOR that
transports valuables, stopped to collect money at the el Galeron de las Ofertas
supermarket located in Alajuela center.
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Deficit cuts key to Costa Rican economic health
Reuters
Costa Rica's robust economy could quickly unravel if the Central American nation
failed to drastically reduce its fiscal deficit this year, the country's Central
Bank president said on Monday.
Generous public spending by Costa Rican President Abel
Pacheco, who took power in May 2002, has pushed the deficit to 5.4 percent of
GDP so far in 2003, compared with 2.9 percent at the end of 2001.
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Slaying suspect must stay
in jail
A judge in southern Costa Rica ordered the main suspect in the
death of a University of Kansas student to remain in jail another two months,
prosecutors said Tuesday.
The judge's ruling late last week will ensure
that Kattia Cruz, 28, stays in jail while awaiting trial on charges she fatally
stabbed Shannon Martin.
The 23-year-old student participated in a study
abroad program in Costa Rica in 2000 and returned one week before she was to
graduate to gather more specimens of a tree-dwelling fern she was researching.
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IMN foretells a strong winter
rainy
season will start in April in South Pacific
This year it will rain more than the past and thus, the risk is greater of
that more floods and landslides will occur in the country, advised
yesterday the Instituto
Meteorolo'gico Nacional yesterday (IMN).
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Alterra asks to raise $7 extra per passenger
Also rises in another 26 tariffs at the airport
The company in charge of the airport, Alterra
Partners, requested to raise from $6 to $7 the extra charge that is included
in each airline ticket, to use the terminal.
Alterra also us looking to raise 26 other
tariffs that are paird by the airlines and businesses that operate in the Juan
Santamarํa airport, as well as 14 reductions.
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Immigration cannot remove illegals
Authorities can only prevent undocumented
Immigration police were given a crippling
blow by the Sala IV this week - they cannot remove or deport illegals from the
country.
The situation stems from an action brought before the Constitutional Court last
December against four articles of the immigration laws. The Court accepted to
study the case on the 18th of February, but only notified immigration officials
last week.
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Security Minister offers Jac๓ more police
The community of Jac๓ will count in April with 20
police more officials of the Fuerza Publica, Immigration and Drug Control agents
This it was the commitment by the Minister of
Security yesterday, Rogelio Ramos, to representatives of diverse sectors of
community of Garabito, Puntarenas, worried about the insecurity in Pacific
beach town.
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Costa Rica is preparing for
crisis in tourism
The 19th Edition of Expotur, the largest
annual commercialization of Central America, will be a great opportunity so that
the Costa Rican businesses can promote to wholesalers worldwide.
As the war in Iraq begins to
affect the national tourism, Costa Rica is preparing packages that will compete
very aggressively world-wide.
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Venezuelan Strike Leader in Costa Rica
An opposition leader
charged with treason for directing a two-month strike against Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez arrived here Thursday after being granted asylum.
Carlos Ortega immediately left for a meeting with Foreign Minister Roberto
Tovar at the Foreign Ministry where he later told reporters he was "glad to
be in Costa Rica" but that his exile "doesn't mean the democratic
movements in Venezuela will come to an end."
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Minister of Tourism resigned
Ruben Pacheco resigned as Minister of
Tourism of Costa Rica and Rodrigo Castro - one of his aides - will take
over.
According to Pacheco, developments in his companies forced his departure from
the Ministry. However, he asserted, he will remain close to President Abel
Pacheco as an adviser on tourism and economy. He added that even though he will
now have more time for his family, "It is painful to leave because I have
been allowed to do a good job."
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Hundreds took the streets to demonstrate
against the war
Hundreds marched the streets of San Jose yesterday
and ended in front of the US Embassy, to protest the armed conflict in Iraq and
the incorporation of Costa Rica in the list of countries that support the war.
The US Embassy was closed to business of Friday and
a barrier wall was placed along the roads that front and side the Embasssy. The
road from Pavas to Rohmoser was closed off completely to all vehicular traffic.
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Safely in Costa Rica, Venezuelan labor leader criticizes Chavez, calls for
support
Venezuelan opposition leader Carlos Ortega
lambasted President Hugo Chavez on Friday and urged his followers to maintain
their fight against the Venezuelan leader.
Ortega, charged with treason in Venezuela for directing a two-month strike,
arrived late Thursday in Costa Rica, where he was granted asylum.
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President Pacheco to make official
visit to Puerto Rico
President Abel Pacheco will pay a five-day
official visit to Puerto Rico next week, the government announced Friday.
Pacheco will arrive in San Juan on Wednesday
afternoon, accompanied by his wife, Leyla Rodriguez Stahl. Specific details of
the visit were not specified.
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