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Costa Rica and Latin America welcomed the election of the new
Pope German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI,
although showing some disappointment at the failed possibility
of having a Latin American Pope. |
Costa Rica Offers Best Wishes
For Pope Benedicto XVI
Tuesday morning, most Costa
Ricans were glued to their
television sets watching the
news coming in from the Vatican
of the new Pope
Sala III Has New Magistrate.
Finally!
While most Costa Ricans were
focusing their attention to
Rome, there was white smoke as
well coming from the Legislative
Assembly, that after a long and
hardous fight, the 33 votes
necessary to appoint Magda
Pereira Villalobos as Magistrate
of the Sala Tercera were
obtained.
Fire Started by a Cigarette
Claims Three Lives
Police in Guanacaste are
theorizing that a lit cigarette
may have been the cause of a
fire that claimed the lives of
three people - the entire family
- in the small town of
Filadelfia on Tuesday.
Youths Sexually Active Between 12
and 14 Years of Age, Study Shows
A report in today's edition of
the Spanish language newspaper
Al Día says that officials and
doctors of the Ministerio de
Educación Publica (MEP) are
concerned and alarmed that many
students between the ages of 12
and 14 are active sexually.
Costa Rica-Based Scam Results in
US Tax Fraud Charges
A Polson, Montana, woman charged
in federal court in Missoula
with filing false tax returns
was one of hundreds who
allegedly took part in a
multinational scheme to evade
U.S. taxes.
There Will
Be No Rationing, ICE's President
Says
The president of the Instituto
Costarricense de Elcetricidad
(ICE), Pablo Cob, yesterday
denied "emphatically" that the
country is facing a shortage of
electrical energy.
LATIN AMERICA
2.5 tons of cocaine seized in
Colombian-US joint action
Colombian and US coast guards
seized 2.5 tons of cocaine in a
boat in the Caribbean Sea on
Monday and arrested four
Colombians and one Mexican, the
Colombian military said Tuesday.
Ecuadorian president faces new
waves of protests
Ecuadorian President Lucio
Gutierrez on Tuesday was once
again under intense pressure to
step down, as crowds of people
gathered in the capital city of
Quito again to demand his
resignation and protest against
his government.
Castro presses for arrest of
terrorist in US
Cuban leader Fidel Castro has
called on the US government to
immediately arrest Luis Posada,
whom he described as a
terrorist, and proceed with his
deportation to Venezuela, where
he has to stand trial, the local
press reported Tuesday.
Mexican
foreign secretary foresees
victory in OAS race
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis
Ernesto Derbez is looking
forward to his victory in the
pan-American race as he is
likely to win 21 votes in the
battle for the top post of the
Organization of American States
(OAS), the national daily El
Universal reported Tuesday.
SPECIAL REPORTS
LATIN
AMERICA:
New Pope a Disappointment to
Progressives, Women
"Today was a sad day," Maria
José Rosado Nunes, head of the
Brazilian branch of Catholics
for the Right to Decide, said in
response to the selection of
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the
new pope, a decision that in
Latin America also disappointed
progressive members of the
clergy and married priests.
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