Education in Crisis, Child
Poverty Increased, UNICEF
Reports Says
According to a United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) report
on Costa Rica, the country is
moving slowly on the subject of
children, especially in the area
of education and poverty.
More than 50 police
officials that included
agents of the Organismo
de Investigacion
Judicial (OIJ), in
addition to judges and
prosecutors, waited in
guns pointed for the
captue of William
Rodriguez Flores, known
as "Cebolla" (onion),
one of the most
dangerous men in Costa
Rica. Hours later
authorities left the La
Carpio with their hands
empty after realizing
that the man was not
hiding out in the
presumed location.
Rodriguez is wanted for
murder among many other
charges. |
Gringo-Tico
Has Newspaper As Only Resort To
Fight ICE For Unmade Calls
Charles Francis Boeger Meir,
described as the "gringo-tico"
in the local Spanish press, says
he has exhausted his patience
and is tired of paying the
Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - the state
monopoly on telecommunications -
for calls he has not made.
Costa
Rica's Exit Leaves El Salvador
With Lone Embassy in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, once the home to
embassies of 12 Latin American
countries and The Netherlands,
now hosts only El Salvador
following the announcement by
Costa Rica's president, Oscar
Arias, that he is fulfilling an
election pledge and moving out
of the Holy city.
HP Expanding Call Centre
in Costa Rica
Hewlett-Packard plans to expand
its work force in San José. But
it's not talking about the
capital of Silicon Valley.
Recope Asks For Gasoline Price
Reduction
Good news for drivers, gasoline
prices are coming down following
a wave of increases that brought
the cost of a litre of super
gasoline to nearly ˘600 colones.
Chile court lifts Pinochet's
immunity in embezzlement case
Chile's Supreme Court announced
on Friday it has ratified an
April Appeals Court decision to
strip ex-leader Gen. Augusto
Pinochet of his immunity on
charges of public funds misuse.
Volcano eruption costs
Ecuadorian farmers US150 million
The eruption of Ecuador's
Tungurahua volcano has caused
150 million U.S. dollars in
damages to agriculture and
livestock, an agriculture
official said on Friday.
Colombia imposes measures
against gasoline trafficking
Colombia has taken measures to
prevent the smuggling of
gasoline from Venezuela,
following an attack which
destroyed 85 tanker trucks in
the town of Maicao on the
Venezuelan border, the Colombian
Energy and Mines Ministry said
in a statement on Wednesday.
Raul Castro says
brother Fidel
recovering
Raul Castro, Cuba's
defense minister who
is temporarily in
charge of the
nation, said in an
interview published
on Friday that his
brother Fidel Castro
is recovering.
COLOMBIA:
US Supervision of
Paramilitary
Demobilisation
Becomes Evident
Just a few days into
Colombian President
Álvaro Uribe's
second term in
office, the close
U.S. supervision of
his government's
negotiations for the
demobilisation of
the ultra-rightwing
paramilitary
militias became
evident.
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