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1.800 turned out yesterday for the annual
Terry Fox Run to raise money for cancer
research. The 4.2 km walk/run held at La
Sabana park.
The Terry Fox Run has been an annual event
in Costa Rica since 1993 and has raised more
than 16.2 Million Colones for La Asociación
Lucha contra el Cáncer Infantil
[Foto: insidecostarica.com]
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| NEWS |
updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
Adoption
of Boy by Transvestite Sparks Controversy
A
family court judge will have to decide it
will grant the adoption of a 10 year old
boy, Maikol, to Luis Gerardo Mairena, a
transvestite, who has been caring for the
boy since the boy's mother left him at the
age of 4 months, alleging she could not
maintain the baby. >more
Costa
Rica's Prisons Overpopulated
It's
no secret that Costa Rica's jail are
overfilled: for example, in San José, La
Reforma and San Sebastián, have 124 and 76
more inmates respectively and El Buen
Pastor, the women's prison located in
Desamparados, has 137 more women than it
should have. >more
Greenhouse
Effect
The National Meteorology Institute (IMN)
will launch a quantitative measure of the
consequences of the greenhouse effect and
other climate alterations in Costa Rica. >more
Donation for
Planetarium
The Government of Japan donated $427,000
destined to a planetarium, a facility
destined to improve the knowledge of Costa
Ricans on space sciences. >more
Bush urges more money, international involvement in Iraq
US President George W. Bush on Sunday called for more international involvement in Iraq and asked US Congress for 87 billion US dollars to fund post-war operations there amid mounting casualties and escalating costs for the United States.
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War against terrorism to last generations: US official
Tom Ridge, the first United States Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in Italy Sunday that the war against international terrorism will last several generations.
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France calls on US to
"change logic" over Iraq
French Foreign Minister Dominique de
Villepin Friday called on the United States to
"change logic" over Iraq from occupation
to sovereignty when explaining France and Germany's
disapproval of the US-drafted United Nations
resolution on Iraq.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: GUATEMALA
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Water,
poverty and CAFTA
The World Bank anticipates that poverty
will continue to worsen in the majority
of the world for at least the next
generation. In the rural north of
Guatemala, in Central America, 75% of
families in Fray Bartolome de las Casas
(Fray) know what this feels like — 85%
live in “extreme” poverty (on less
than US$1/day). A land of lush tropical
green, it rains eight to nine months of
the year, yet Fray also finds itself in
chronic drought.
The afternoon sun of May 20 unleashes
burning heat upon Fray. The sky over
Guatemala remains a hazy white from the
burning of forest and scrub cut by
campesinos (predominantly Indigenous
rural workers) prior to this year's
planting of frijoles (beans), arroz
(rice) and ma¡z (corn).
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