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Wednesday 26 September
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Countdown to TLC Referendum:
11
Days
35 Years For Killing Wife!
The
murder trail of former public
defender, Luis Fernando Burgos,
for killing his wife ended with
the reading of the verdict
yesterday afternoon, where the
three judges of the Tribunal
Penal de San José sentenced
Burgos to 35 years prison for
killing his wife Maureen
Hidalgo.
Women Want Right To Decide on
Abortion
The woman's organization "Colectiva
por el Derecho a Decidir" is
asking for changes to the Costa
Rican Código Penal (penal code)
to make abortion legal.
Referendum Voting Ballot Cannot
Be Photographed
The
Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE)
warned yesterday that voters who
are by any means caught
recording electronically their
vote during the TLC referendum
vote on October 7, will have
their vote annulled.
Government To
Facilitate Entry of 41.500 Foreign
Workers
The government said that it will
facilitate the entry of 41.500
foreigners to fill the shortage of
workers in the agriculture sector.
Simplicity Cribs Recalled
Wal-Mart yesterday took off the
shelves baby cribs made by
Simplicity Inc. due to failures
resulting in infant deaths.
Cuba Reading Plan in
Nicaragua Jails
Over 200 Nicaraguan
prisoners were taught to
read and write with the
Cuban method Yes, I Can,
in the first phase of
the national literacy
campaign, an official
source informed Tuesday.
Nicaragua's Ortega
Lashes Out at US
At the United Nations
General Assembly
Tuesday, Nicaraguan
president, Daniel
Ortega, asked what right
the United States has to
question a country that
is seeking nuclear
development for peaceful
- or even military -
purposes.
Salvadorans Can't Afford
Medicines
Drugs are inaccessible
for many people in El
Salvador, due to
skyrocketing prices and
frequent shortages, a
study by the country's
Public and Health
Policies Observatory
indicated on Tuesday.
Honduran president urges
UN to legalize
migration, encourage
free trade
Honduran President Jose
Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday
urged the United Nations
to include migration in
its development agenda,
and called for the
creation of truly free
trade in the world, news
reaching here said.
Argentina blasts
Britain's unwillingness
to discuss disputed
islands
Argentine President
Nestor Kirchner on
Tuesday described
Britain's unwillingness
to join sovereignty
talks over the Malvinas
Islands, known as the
Falkland Islands by
Britons, as
"incomprehensible,"
according to news
reaching here Tuesday.
COLOMBIA:
Local Candidates Sign
Agreement with Civil
Society in Slum
n Soacha, a
violence-wracked slum on
the outskirts of the
Colombian capital, civil
society groups persuaded
six of the eight
candidates for mayor of
the municipality to sign
an agreement on
governance and
transparency, ahead of
the Oct. 28 local and
regional elections.
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