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Rain
and More Rain Forecasted
Cancelled local flights, inundated highways and
blocked roads due to mudslides are all the
result of the heavy rains that have fallen over
most of Costa Rica over the last couple of days,
intensifying the work of the Comisión Nacional
de Emergencias (CNE) - national emergency
commission.
First Child Death To Hemorrhagic Dengue
Isaac Alonso Montenegro Castillo, at only one
year and six months, has become the first child
victim of Hemorrhagic Dengue this year.
For
the Environment
Costa Rica has launched a campaign to become the
first country in the world to attain carbon
dioxide balance, meaning a nationwide effort to
protect the environment, so as to counter the
effect of greenhouse gas emissions.
L'Occitane To Open in Costa Rica
Following the launch of the France based
L'Occitane stores in the US airport DFW (Dallas
Forth Worth) last year, the company has expanded
its network in the Americas and will aim to open
up 25 new airport retail stores by the end of
2007.
The 'Eyes' have it in Nicaragua
The list of
places claiming to be "The Next Costa Rica" is
as long as it is suspicious.
us$250 Million in
Industrial Park
Several Costa Rican
businessmen partake in a
us$250-million joint
venture for the
development of an
industrial park in El
Coyol, Alajuela, west of
the Juan Santamaría
International airport.
Ortega Calls Opposition Traitors
Nicaraguan Sandinista President Daniel Ortega
called the opposition "traitors" who collude
against his government with the help of a
foreign power.
Panama to be new UN
regional
headquarters
Panama will become
the United Nations'
regional
headquarters for
Latin America and
the Caribbean, Nils
Kastberg, the
regional director of
the United Nations
International
Children's Emergency
Fund (UNICEF) told
reporters on Monday.
Guatemalan Youths Demand Concrete Programs
Representatives of some 75 member organizations
of the Guatemalan Youth Coordinator demanded
that political parties implement concrete
programs for the benefit of that social sector,
which is only taken into account to raise votes.
El Salvador: The
Imprint of Posada
Carriles
The parliamentary
bloc of the FMLN (Farabundo
Marti National
Liberation Front)
has tried twice to
pass a bill to
prevent a possible
return of terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles
to El Salvador.
Spoiled Meat Sickens Guatemalans
The number of people poisoned grows after eating
contaminated meat in a National Unity of Hope
Party s meeting (UNE) in the Guatemalan
department of Escuintla.
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA:
'Battalions of
Lawyers, Not
Soldiers'
In San Onofre, a
municipality in the
northwestern
Colombian province
of Sucre, where
according to the
Movement of Victims
of Crimes of the
State the far-right
paramilitaries have
killed 3,000 people,
locals say in a low
voice that "He will
get us out of this."
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