Costa Rica's first lady Leila
Rodriguez; El Salvador's first
lady Ana L. Mixco and
Guatemalas's first lady Wendy
Lagarte receive flowers after
their arrivals in San Pedro Sula,
some 240 kilometers (149 miles)
north of Tegucigalpa, in
Honduras, Wednesday.
Central America's first ladies
will meet to talk about
children's problems and other
issues in the region until Sept.
30.
[AP Photo/Presidencia, Jose
Merlo]
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Arias: Costa Rica Worried About Stolen Jobs
Oscar Arias Sánchez, former
president of Costa Rica, said in a speech to a mostly business
audience at a Trenam Kemker-sponsored breakfast Wednesday at Tampa,
Florida's, downtown Hyatt, "Costa Rica has little interest in
participating in a go-where-the-labor-is-cheapest world tour."
ALCATEL SCANDAL:
Alcatel Also Made Donations to the Araya
Campaign
Following a report this week
that the French telecommunications company gave us$100.000 to
president Pacheco's political campaign, channel 7's Telenoticias
reports that Rolando Araya, the presidential candidate in the last
election, also got us$100.000 from Alcatel.
FISCHEL-CAJA SCANDAL:
Calderón Cousin and Sister Called to Testify
The investigation into the
biggest scandal to date - the multimillion dollar credit loan from
Finland to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) by way of
the Corporación Fischel, dudded the Fischel-Caja scandal - continues
as two members of former president Rafael Ángel Calderón visited the
Ministerio Público.
Honduran Youth in Harris Scandal Has AIDS
The young Honduran man who
accused former director of Casa Alianza, Bruce Harris, of paying him
$30 for sexual favours, has AIDS.
A
letter from a reader.
Gasoline Prices To Increase, Again.
If the last increase
wasn't enough, a new increase would break the record prices set by
the last.
Did You
Know?
Prestigious international human
rights organizations have their headquarters in Costa Rica.
US fingerprints more travellers
Visitors to the US
who are not required to have a visa will be fingerprinted and
photographed from Thursday.
Colombian lawmakers issued weapons for self
defense
The Colombian Congress on
Wednesday issued 150 pistols and 45 submachine guns to some of its
members for self-defense, according to the legislature.
Argentina shocked by school shooting, mourns
dead
Hundreds of people on Wednesday accompanied coffins of the two
victims of Argentina's worst school shooting to the municipal
cemetery in Carmen de Patagones, a small city about 960 km south of
the capital.
Venezuela to send aid to storm-hit Haiti
A fourth Venezuelan air force plane will soon carry 15 tons of food,
potable water and medicine to Haitian victims of tropical storm
Jeanne, local press said Wednesday.
International News from the New York Times
CULTURE-CUBA:
Hidden Story of the Daughters of Galicia
They were poor women from the northern
Spanish province of Galicia. They came alone to Cuba in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, and like so many Latin American women now
emigrating to Europe, many of them ended up in poor-paying jobs as
domestics or on the fringes of society as prostitutes.
More than 60,000 Galician women settled in this Caribbean island nation,
where they founded the Daughters of Galicia Association and the hospital
of the same name, which continues to provide services in Havana.
But very few people remember how and why that institution emerged.
”If history books serve a purpose, it is to reflect on the past,” says
Cuban historian Julio César González Pagés, author of the book
'Emigration of Galician Women to Cuba: The Daughters of Galicia'.
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