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Sunday 07
September
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Contaminated Beaches To
Have Warning Signs
Posted To Protect
Visitors
The Acueductos y
Alcantarillados (AyA) -
water and sewer utility
- is warning of serious
contamination at 13
beaches.
Interamericana Sur
Closed Again Due To
Landslide
A mudslide is once again
the cause of a closure
of the Interamericana
Sur, as the highway was
completed closed off at
kilometre 102, in the
area of Veulta de las
Monjas, near Pérez
Zeledón.
Medical Tourism Is
Booming In Costa Rica
Costa Rica has been
seducing foreign
visitors with its
volcanoes, beaches and
rain forests. However,
the trend of late is for
foreign visitors to come
to Costa Rica for
cosmetic and medical
surgeries and dental
treatment.
Costa Ricans Deported
From The US
According to United
States officials, a
Costa Rican is deported
from the United States
every day.
Poas Volcano: A Unique
Site
The colour, high
temperature and
extremely high
concentration of
chemicals such as
sulfur, silica, and
other metals, mostly
toxic, make of the lake
in the crater of active
Poas Volcano a unique
site in the Earth.
Tourism And Hotels Boom
in Panama
South Florida faces a
rising rival in tourism:
Panama. Investors are
pouring hundreds of
millions of dollars into
hotels into the small
Central American
country, which posted
the fastest growth in
international arrivals
in the hemisphere last
year: up 30 percent to
1.1 million.
El Salvador Ruling Party
Accused of Violence
SAN SALVADOR - The
opposition Farabundo
Marti National
Liberation Front (FMLN)
in El Salvador hold the
ruling Nationalist
Republican Alliance
(ARENA) accountable for
the riots in this
capital related with
forthcoming elections.
Cuba Urges US to Lift
Blockade
LA HABANA - Cuba
on Saturday urged the
United States government
to lift once for all its
economic, trade and
financial blockade of
the island state,
claiming that the
50-year-old sanctions
have annually caused
more damage than
Hurricane Gustav.
Venezuela, Russia To
Hold Joint Military
Exercises in Venezuelan
Waters
CARACAS - Venezuela and
Russia will hold joint
military exercises in
mid-November, the first
of its kind in the
Americas, the Venezuelan
military announced on
Saturday.
New Ecuador Constitution
Tops Polls
QUITO - Most
Ecuadorians who want a
radical change of the
power structures of this
Andean nation back the
text of the new
constitution.
COLOMBIA:
Oil Palms, Right Abuses
Hand in Hand in
Northwest
As of this week, there
is one less human rights
defender in the
northwestern Colombian
region of Bajo Atrato.
Jimmy Jansasoy of the
Inter-Church Justice and
Peace Commission was
forced to flee the area,
where oil palm
plantations have
encroached on the
collectively-owned
jungle territories of
traditional black
communities.
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