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In
commemoration of the "Semana de
Rehabilitación y Educación
Especial", Roy Campos. decided
to to something different - he
organized a wheelchair marathon
that will run from Limón on the
East coast to Puntarenas on the
West coast, called "de mar a
mar" which began yesterday. [Foto:
Manuel Azofeifa/Diario Extra]
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Seven
Foreign Insurers Waiting Market
To Open
With the ratification of the
Tratado Libre de COmercio (TLC)
- free trade agreement with the
UNited States - the Instituto
Nacional de Seguros (INS) will
eventually lose its monopoly on
insurance in Costa Rica, opening
the doors to competition.
Price of Gasoline Drops
Tomorrow
Better wait till tomorrow to
fill your gasoline tank, because
as of midnight tonight the price
of a litre of super gasoline
will drop ¢46 colones and ¢27
colones for a litre of regular,
following the publication of the
quick approval by the Autoridad
Reguladora de los Servicios
Públicos (Aresep) last week, in
today's edition of the official
newspaper La Gaceta.
Taxi Driver Appeals 'Uniform'
Regulation
On the first day that taxi
drivers were required to dressed
in uniform - white shirt and
blue pants - the future is now
uncertain, as taxi driver Ronald
Gerardo Vega, appealed to the
Constitutional Court (Sala IV)
in an action known as a "recurso
amparo", even though the
majority of drivers are
accepting the regulation.
Monument to Catholic Zionist To
Go Up in Coronado
Workers have begun returning a
monument to Latin American
Catholicism’s leading Zionist
advocate to a prominent location
in Coronado, almost a year after
it was removed for restoration.
It Will
Cost ¢16 Billion Colones to
Repair Roads and Bridges
The government estimates that it
will cost ¢16 billion colones
(us$32.5 million dollars) to
repair the bridges, roads and
sewers damaged or destroyed by
floods in September and October,
epsecially in the Northern and
Central Pacific regions.
 
Situation Remains Critical in
Honduras Due to Torrential Rains
Several days of torrential rains
keep the situation in northeast
Honduras critical, chiefly due
to flooding rivers, the national
broadcasting service reported
Monday.
Mexico Confirms Fujimori
Passed Through Its Territory
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis
Ernesto Derbez has corroborated
that ex President of Peru
Alberto Fujimori, who said he
never left the plane, passed
through Mexico on his way to
Chile.
Cuba Hopes for Victory over
US Blockade at UN
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe
Perez Roque said Tuesday´s vote
at the 60th UN General Assembly
against the US on the 45-year
blockade of his country will be
a sound and smashing victory for
the Cubans.
Venezuela
Purging Border Drug Plots
Venezuelan authorities are
launching Tuesday an operation
code-named Sierra 2005, to
eradicate two plantations of
coca and poppy discovered in the
Sierra de Perija, in the
Venezuelan state of Zulia, close
to the border with Colombia.
AMERICAS:
Integration Remains an Elusive
Concept
If
the fourth Summit of the
Americas left anything clear, it
is the difficulty of reaching
agreement on a concept of
integration in the region.
The Friday and Saturday summit
in Mar del Plata, Argentina took
place in the midst of bilateral
tensions and disputes between
various countries, the
stagnation of proposals for
Latin American integration, and
differences that have emerged
even between countries governed
by like-minded political forces.
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