Monday 22 October
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Tropical Wave Misses
Costa Rica; Guanacaste
Still Underwater
The Instituto
Meteriologico Nacional (IMN)
informed this morning
that the Tropical Wvave
expected today that was
to have dumped more
water on the country has
moved on, missing Costa
Rica entirely.
Changes To Traffic
Laws A Slow Process As Deaths Continue
To Pile Up
The number of deaths resulting from
traffic accidents continue, as well as
drunk drivers who for the most part are
responsible for the majority of the
accidents and deaths, while legislative
deputies dally over the proposal by the
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y
Transportes (MOPT) to raise fines and
harsher penalties.
Arias on China Tour
Costa Rican president,
Oscar Arias Sanchez,
arrived in China Monday
morning (local time),
kicking off an one-week
state visit to China at
the invitation of
Chinese President Hu
Jintao.
What Is Your Lucky
Number?
Looking to be a
millionaire? Starting
today the "gordo
navideño" (Christmas
lottery) hits the
streets with prize value
of ¢2.7 billion colones
(us52.3 million
dollars).
Drums Beat On Avenida
Segunda To Open Teachers
Association Conference
Avenida Segunda
yesterday was filled
with the traditional
parade inaugurating the
official commencement of
the LXIV Congreso de la
Asociación Nacional de
Educadores (ANDE) -
national teachers
association.
Cuban Tropical Night
in Nicaragua Soon
Noche Tropical Cubana
(Cuban Tropical Night),
by the Havana-based
America Theatre corps de
ballet, will perform at
several Nicaraguan
stages next week, tour
promoter Roger Bellolio
announced.
Panama's Banking
Industry Country Risk
Assessment Raised
Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services said it
has raised its banking
industry country risk
assessment (BICRA) on
Panama to 'Group 6' from
'Group 7'
Bolivia Illiteracy
Decreases with Cuban
Method
To the recent
declaration of Chulumani
as region free of
illiteracy, people in 42
Bolivian municipalities
are now added to those
who can now know to read
and write thanks to the
Cuban method "Yes, I
can."
Argentina First Lady
Probable Winner
The presidential
candidate of the
Argentine government,
Senator Cristina
Fernandez, will win the
October 28 elections in
the first round,
according to eight of
ten polls.
Venezuelan
Constitutional Reform
Approves 36 Articles
The third and definitive
discussion of the
project for the
Venezuelan
constitutional reform in
the Parliament shows 36
articles approved up to
now, in a process that
started on October 16.
LATIN AMERICA:
Nine Roads Through the
Virgin Wilderness
In the name of
development and
integration, roads,
bridges, dams, gas
pipelines, ports and
other infrastructure
works are expanding in
South America. But many
of the projects are
trampling roughshod over
protected areas that
preserve unique
ecosystems and
vulnerable native
cultures.
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