Two More Bodies Recovered Thursday
Officials said Thursday they have discovered two bodies from the crash of a small plane that had carried U.S. and Canadian skydivers.

Pacheco Criticizes Media For Attacks on Him
Last night, in a national address on television and radio, President Abel Pacheco began his attack against the collective media for the persecution campaign against him and for discrediting him in the past week.

Canadian Arrested For Drug Smuggling
A 29 year old Canadian woman was arrested by the Policía de Control de Drogas (PCD) at the Juan Santamaría airport in San José when it was discovered that she was hiding drugs - heroin and cocaine - in her travel bags.

Costa Rican Coffee Gets Good Prices
The price of Costa Rican coffee in general remains at 15% to 25% above the average quote at the New York Stock Exchange, thanks to sales to a little under half of it to high-quality markets, according to the Costa Rican Coffee Institution (ICAFE).

Man Chains Himself to Post Saying He Was Scammed
Michael Lee Rouco, a 45 year old American, living in Naranjo chained himself to a light post on Wednesday to protest that an architect scammed him of us$56.000 dollars.

Court Upholds Ericsson Contract
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court (Sala IV) has thrown out a lawyer's attempt to annul a us$130 million contract awarded to Ericsson by telecom monopoly ICE and approved by the comptroller, for the installation of a new GSM network.

U.S. Wary of Costa Ricans
The Americans expect a stiff challenge from the Costa Ricans for the World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica tomorrow.


LATIN AMERICA

Bolivian president takes measures to calm unrest
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa signed a decree on Thursday to quell weeks of unrest over a new energy policy that indigenous groups felt fell short on state control.

Mexican president appoints new interior minister
Mexican President Vicente Fox appointed Carlos Abascal Carranza as interior minister on Thursdayto replace Santiago Creel, who is to run in the presidential election in 2006.

Police chief assassinated in Mexico
A high-ranking police officer in the northern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo was shot dead Thursday after another one was wounded in that city on the US border.

Bolivia rejects OAS intervention in internal crisis
Bolivia rejects any kind of intervention in its internal affairs by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Bolivian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.


SPECIAL REPORTS
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENT-BOLIVIA:
'New' Monkey a Symbol for Conservation
The discovery in Bolivia of a new species of titi monkey, baptised with the scientific name Callicebus aureipalatti, is a call from nature to humans to take responsibility for the conservation of wildlife areas, say the scientists who identified the ''new'' primate.