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Gays
In Costa Rica Want Equality
Groups in Costa Rica are asking Costa Rican
president, Oscar Arias, to help them create more
equality among gays, lesbians, bisexual and
trans-genders.
US President
George W. Bush
speaks at Fort
Benning,
Georgia, home to
a controversial
US training
center formerly
known as the
School of the
Americas. Costa
Rica will no
longer send its
police to the
facility,
officials said
Friday [AFP/File/Tim
Sloan] |
Increase in Women Drunk
Drivers Worry Tránsito
Officials
Women drunk drivers are
also a problem for the
Policía de Tránsito
(traffic police) as they
report that on average
three women walk home
and fined ¢26.000
colones, resulting from
being caught in their
net of nightly
operatives against drunk
driving.
U.S. Ambassador
Described as Head of TLC
Yes Movement
The United States ambassador to Costa
Rica, Mark Langdale, is
being described by
oppositors to the
Tratado de Libre
Comercio (TLC) - free
trade agreement with the
United States, Central
America and the
Dominican Republic, as a
leader in the movement
in favour of the trade
deal.
A
Moving Month
May has been a shaking month. According to the
Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de
Costa Rica (Ovsicori) nine earthquakes have
shaken and rattled the country.
Couple Sentenced To 25 Years For Neglect of
Infant
The Tribunal de Juicio de San José yesterday
sentenced a couple to 25 years prison for
causing the death of their two month old child.
Mudslide in Cartago Claims Three Lives
The rainy season is not only rain and more rain,
but also of floods and mudslides. Yesterday, a
little girl and two women were buried alive by a
mudslide that swept away the vehicle their were
riding in, in Tierra Blanca, Cartago.
Guatemala Fires 120 Detectives
In its purification process, new Guatemalan
Interior Ministry authorities will purge 120
detectives from the Criminal Investigation
Division (DINC) for corruption or poor work,
National Police director Julio Hernandez
announced on Friday.
FMLN
Calls Salvadorians to March against Poverty
The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
called Salvadorians on Thursday to march against
poverty, which affects more than 60 percent of
the people, on June 1.
Brazil Puts Mosquito on the Map
Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo and
Pasteur Institute have completed the genetic map
of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, transmitter of
yellow fever and dengue.
Colombian leader orders rescue of hostages
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday
ordered the military to rescue a
French-Colombian ex-senator and three Americans
held by leftist guerrillas.
Ecuador Needs
Job-Generating
Investment
Ecuadorian Foreign
Minister Maria Fernanda
Espinosa expressed her
country's interest in
fostering productive
job-generating
investment within the
appropriate legal
framework.
LATIN AMERICA:
Second Chance for
Indigenous People After
'Lost Decade'
Tensions between
indigenous people,
governments and
transnational
corporations will grow
in the second
International Decade of
the World's Indigenous
People, which began in
2005, say experts.
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