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The rain will be with us until
Wednesday says the weatherman, due to a low pressure system
stationed over Costa Rica that has caused rains in all parts of the
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Is It the Rainy Season
Already?
Why the rain? It's not the rainy season
yet? were some of the questions being asked yesterday by many when San
José awakened with cloudy skies, drizzle and closed with a down pour in
the downtown area in the late afternoon.
Was It All a Hoax? Or Just Usual ICE
Mishandling?
Some 7.000 people got up earlier
than usual, some decided to miss work, in a chance to obtain their
cellular service following the announcement published in the local
newspapers last week.
New Pharmacy Donates Food
to the Needy
The Mexican pharmacy chain, Farmacias Similares who opened their doors
in Costa Rica for the first time just a couple of months ago are giving
away food to the needy who visit their pharmacy located on Paséo
Colon.
Some 3.000 Nicaraguans Refused Entry
According to Costa Rican
immigration authorities, 3.400 Nicaraguans were intercepted by the
Policía de Migración and the Fuerza Pública in the last few days as they
tried to enter Costa Rican territory illegally.
School To Be Sold at Auction For Non Payment of
Debt
For the first time in the history of Costa
Rica, some 200 students may be left with a school to go to this
Wednesday if the school board doesn't pay up it's debt, as ordered by a
local court.
Second Shooting Incident Reported at La
Nación
in Less Than a Month
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
today called for a prompt and thorough investigation into two gunfire
attacks this month against the facilities of the daily Spanish language
newspaper La Nación in San José.
U.S. Hyatt To Build Hotel in Costa Rica
U.S. hotel chain Hyatt plans to
build a hotel in Costa Rica. The company has still not chosen the
location of the hotel but it could be in the northwestern Guanacaste
province or in the capital San José, Hyatt's representative in Costa
Rica, Hector Lee, said.
LATIN AMERICA
Colombian rebels demand stopping extradition to
US
Colombia's largest rebel group, the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), on Monday urged the
congress and the Supreme Court to stop extraditing Colombians to the
United States,
US court reluctant to intervene in case of
death-row Mexicans
US Supreme Court justices on Monday
questioned the need to intervene in a case that could decide the fate of
51 Mexicans on death row who say that their rights were denied at their
trials.
Second Online Democracy and Elections Forum in
Cuba
An online forum on democracy and elections
in Cuba will be held Tuesday in this capital, attended by Ricardo
Alarcon, president of the People´s Power National Assembly.
Argentinian Government Rejects Catholic
Leader´s Accusations
Argentina´s Secretary of Religious Affairs
Guillermo Oliveri has rejected accusations by a prelate of the Catholic
Church in which he questioned the religious freedom in the country.
Brazil, Colombia,
Venezuela and Spain to Meet in Puerto Ordaz
The President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula
da Silva; Colombia, Alvaro Uribe; Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and Spain, Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, will meet in Puerto Ordaz to foster cooperation
in all spheres, especially fighting drug trafficking and organized
crime, according to the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
SPECIAL REPORTS
URUGUAY:
Former Sugar Cane Workers Look to Future With Hope
In the Las
Láminas slum in this town in northern Uruguay, former sugar cane workers
barely eke out a living making hand-made bricks and scavenging garbage.
ARGENTINA:
Uranium-Polluted Water Is Legally Safe to Drink
Laboratory
testing ordered by an Argentine court concluded that the water consumed
by close to a million people living near a nuclear facility is
contaminated with uranium and not fit for human consumption.
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