Lost
Minister Found, Says He Was
Never Lost
Search parties found Costa
Rica's missing energy and
environment minister on Saturday
suffering from a nasty bite by a
wild tapir, after he got lost in
a jungle reserve two days
earlier.
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Costa Rica turned purple
Saturday night as the "morados"
beat the "liga" 2:1 in
the national soccer
championship. The
Deportivo Saprissa
rocked the house in the
most watched game of the
year as they dominated
and Liga Deportiva
Alajuelense. The party
is still going on in all
parts of the country.
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ICE Is
Ready To Compete, President Says
In his weekly radio address to
the nation, president Abel
Pacheco de la Espriella, took
the time to point out the
advances made by his
administration of the last four
years, especially to the
Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE), the state
monopoly on telecommunications
and electrical energy.
Faithful Call for Removal of
Alcoholic Priest
A number of residents of the
area known as La Unión have made
a call to Monseñor Hugo
Barrantes to remove their local
priest, Marco Hugo Castro Mora,
from the Nuestra Señora del
Pilar church, for being a drunk.
Six Year
Old Girl Murdered By Mistake
A six year old girl was killed,
in front of her mother and
little brother, by a bullet by
what appears to be a mistake by
killer or killers who had the
wrong house. The murder occurred
in El Edén, in Vista de Mar,
Goicoechea.
2nd Annual
Poker Industry Expo to be held
December 7-8
Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc.
announces that its second annual
Poker Industry Conference and
Exposition will be held December
7-8, 2006 in San José, at the
Costa Rica Marriott Hotel.
Police
Better Trained To Capture Sex
Offenders
With
the objective of forming new and
better officials, the Dirección
de Investigación Especializada
(DIE) of the Ministerio de
Seguridad Pública, held a
seminar given by an Italian
expert in the subject of
commercial sexual exploitation,
along with national experts of
the subject.
Venezuela to Sign Oil Deal with
Nicaragua
President Hugo Chavez announced
in his weekly radio and TV live
address "Alo Presidente" an
agreement with Nicaragua to ease
the massive power cuts starting
next week due to fuel shortage.
world
market rocketing fuel prices.
Mexico,
Ecuador Revamp Ties
Presidents Vicente Fox (Mexico)
and Alfredo Palacio (Ecuador)
are overhauling Monday their
bilateral relations to make them
stronger.
US
Holds War Games in Honduras
US troops opened military
exercises in Honduras on Friday,
amid increased condemnation by
social and political groups, and
municipal authorities who say
the maneuvers are an
interventionist provocation.
Salvadorians Protest Mining
Exploitation
Environmentalists and social
groups gathered on Friday in
front of the Canadian Embassy in
El Salvador to protest the
damage that Canadian mining
companies have caused to the
ecosystem and local people.
Chile's
top court strips Pinochet of
presidential immunity
Chile's Supreme Court voted by
10-5 on Friday to strip former
leader General Augusto Pinochet
of his presidential immunity for
the second time.
LATIN AMERICA:
China's
Appetite for Commodities, a
Blessing or a Curse?
If Latin
America's economic ties with
China do not undergo a
structural change, the region
will be unable to meet the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
an Argentine expert said during
the Latin Economic Forum, held
this week at U.N. headquarters
in New York.
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