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Monday 30
July 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Walk To Cartago
Under the Hot Sun
Thousands are taking advantage of the
holiday to make their trek to Cartago to
visit "La Negrita" de los Angeles. The
sun shone on Cartago yesterday like
never before, but the heat did not
dissuade the faithful.
Gas Hike Approved
Get ready to loosen the
purse strings as another
round of gas price
increases is around the
corner, as the the
Autoridad Reguladora de
Servicios Público -
regulating authority -
gave the national oil
refinery (RECOPE) a
price hike approval.
Correos Begins
Implementation of New
Address System
Beginning today mailing
a letter to Vázquez de
Coronado and Moravia
will include the new
postal code in the
address as part of the
Correos de Costa Rica
(post office) plan to
change the addressing
system to allow a more
exact location of every
house or commercial
building by
standardizing addresses.
Drivers File Complaints
Against Traffic
Officials
Statistics by the
Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes
reveals that two
Tránsito (traffic
officials) are
sanctioned every week.
For the period of
January 1 and July 18 of
this year, 58 Tránsito
officials were suspended
between 1 and 30 days,
for non completion of
duties. Some lost their
jobs completely.
First Woman To
Vote Honoured
Yesterday in San Carlos homage was paid
to 87 year old Bernarda Vásquez Méndez,
who was the first woman to cast her vote
in Costa Rica some 57 years ago.
Nicaraguan President
Says ALBA is Fair Trade
Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega called the
Bolivarian Alternative
for the Americas fair
trade compared to
neoliberal free trade.
Observers Predict
Trouble during
Guatemalan Elections
The civil organization
Mirador Electoral warned
in a communiqué
published on Friday that
trouble might affect the
smooth development and
transparency of
elections in Guatemala
in September.
Over 300 women murdered
in Guatemala in 2007
At least 306 women have
been murdered in
Guatemala so far this
year, said a
parliamentary commission
of this Central American
country Sunday.
Chavez plans changes to
Venezuela's regional
government
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez said Sunday
that his constitutional
reform proposals will
include changes to how
the country is governed
regionally.
Sao Paulo airport
runway reopens after accident
The main runway in Sao
Paulo's Congonhas airport was reopened
Friday 10 days after TAM Airlines'
Airbus 320 landing accident killed some
200 people.
Panama Weighs Debt and
Threat of Noriega
If Manuel Noriega, the
deposed dictator, ever
returns to Panama,
Winston Spadafora, a
justice on the country’s
Supreme Court, has a
question for him.
“I’d like to ask him,”
Justice Spadafora said
in a recent interview in
his chambers, “what he
did with my brother’s
head.”
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