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David de Villiers, secretary
general of the World Tourism Organization, speaks at the
Regional Conference of the Americas on the Protection of
Children Against Sexual Exploitation in Tourism at the
Melia Cariari Hotel outside San Jose, this Wednesday and
Thursday.
Tourism professionals will be meeting with law
enforcement officials and child welfare representatives
to discuss ways to prevent the abuse of children in the
tourism industry. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
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Costa Rica
was destination of man accused of corruption
of minors
A 75
years old US citizen was recently detained
in Nicaragua as a suspect of crimes of
corruption of minors, kidnapping and rape,
was in Costa Rica a total of seven times
before his arrest.
According
to the daily Guatemalan paper La Prensa, Roy
Adrian Wildman - a retired ship captain -
was arrested in Granada, Nicaragua, when
police found a 13-year-old girl in his house
against her will. >more
ICE
employees: a call to strike next Monday
The
union representing the workers of ICE, is
calling on it's membership to wage a general
strike beginning at 7am, Monday, the 12th of
May, to march to the Central Bank. >more
Mom
in custody case gets probation
By
Sue Lindsay, Rocky Mountain News
A
Westminster,
Colorado mother who fled
with her daughter to Costa Rica in violation
of a custody agreement was sentenced to five years
of probation Wednesday.,
Colorado mother who fled
with her daughter to Costa Rica in violation
of a custody agreement was sentenced to five years
of probation Wednesday.
Barbara Vigil took
her daughter in April 2001, claiming she feared her
child was at risk for sexual abuse at the hands of
her father, who had won custody of the child in a
bitter divorce .
Vigil worked as a
teacher in Costa Rica for nearly a year
before authorities arrived at her door to take the
child back to her father, Russ McCallian, in April
2001.
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Story
Diplomats
Gain Little in Venezuela Talks
CARACAS, Venezuela -
After months of talks, diplomats trying to broker a
peaceful end to Venezuela's political troubles have
little to show for their efforts — save for a
moribund accord to end verbal insults.The so-called Group
of Friends of Venezuela made up of diplomats from
six countries was created in January to help the
Organization of American States broker a solution to
Venezuela's crisis. >Complete
Story
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Good
morning Friends,
As
deadlines come and go, the
disappointments seem to mount. From
the very onset of this case, it has
appeared that the cards are stacked
against us, more than once.
At every legal intersection, the
Investors are being run over by the
Big Cement Truck of the OIJ with
Walter Espinoza at the wheel.
Badly written briefs and requests by
this prosecutor sail through the
Costa Rican courts without
hindrance, while well written and
thought through pieces filed on
behalf of the Brothers and their
Creditors fall short of their goal. >Complete
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REPORTS: CUBA
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CUBA: Emigrants
Lose Their Homes, Their Country - 'And We Lose
Them'
Marlene Guzmán and her
uncles, aunts, siblings and cousins used to
meet every Sunday at her grandmother's house
in Havana. But the reunions are much smaller
now, because so much of her family has
emigrated to Miami since 1990.
''It's not that we all supported the
revolution, but we liked living in Cuba,'' the
41-year-old Guzmán, a researcher in a
scientific institute, told IPS. ''I have four
uncles and aunts, and 12 cousins on my
father's side, and we used to get together
every Sunday at grandmother's.''
After the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro,
only one of Guzmán's uncles and his wife, as
well as two cousins, had decided to leave the
country and settle in the United States by the
late 1960s. The rest of Guzmán's family
remained in Cuba until ''everything changed
all of a sudden'' in 1990, she said. >Complete
Story
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