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Sunday 26 August 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
More than 100 Young
Transvestites Work The
Streets of Downtown San
José
More than 100
adolescents aged between
15 and 17 years of age
apply the oldest trade
in the downtown streets
of San José's Barrio
Amón, a few blocks north
of the Avenida Central
or boulevard.
First Customer of
Plasma Engine
The plasma engine
developed by physicist and former NASA
astronaut Franklin Chang to travel to
the Moon, Mars, and beyond, already has
a commercial customer.
Heavy Rain Lands Woman
In Creek
A 23 year old woman
identified only as
Sandra got the scare of
her life and was
seriously injured when
her vehicle left the
road and landed at the
bottom of the creek
known as "Los Negritos"
in San Pedro Montes de
Oca.
Land Slide Onto
Highway
Leave Two Children
Injured
A warning to all
motorists travelling
from Santa Ana to Escazú
on the autopista, as a
land slide dumped loads
of mud and rock on the
right lane of the
highway at the top of
the hill and only
visible once you are
close to it.
Noriega Loses Round in
Bid to Avoid French
Trial
A U.S. judge refused to
shield former Panamanian
dictator Manuel Noriega
from possibly being sent
to France to face
criminal charges after
he completes a prison
term in Florida for drug
trafficking.
Honduras for Support to
Stop Dengue
The Honduran Health
Secretariat ask the
Pan-American Health
Organization (PHO) for
help to stop dengue
epidemic, affirmed
health authorities
Saturday.
Guatemala Lacks Women
Candidates
Participation of
Guatemalan women for
posts in the current
elections slightly
increased although it is
still very below
expectations of the
sector.
Chavez denies rumors of
Castro's death
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez on Saturday
denied rumors that his
ally Cuban leader Fidel
Castro had died.
COLOMBIA:
Talks with ELN Halfway
to Framework Accord
This week’s round of
exploratory talks
between the Colombian
government and the
insurgent National
Liberation Army (ELN) in
the Cuban capital came
to an end Friday halfway
to a framework accord
for starting formal
peace talks. One of the
main hurdles to an
agreement is the
question of verification
of the eventual
ceasefire.
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