The
Scare Of Their Lives!
Passengers of American Airlines
flight 988 bound for Miami got
the scare of their lives
yesterday when the plane had to
make an emergency landing
minutes after taking off.
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Passengers of American Airlines
flight 988, bound for Miami, got
the scare of their lives
yesterday when the plane made an
emergency landing minutes after
taking off from Juan Santamaria
airport when an engine caught
fire. The plane landed safely
and no passengers were injured.
In the foto, the aircraft is
safely back on the tarmac as
emergency personnel inspect the
engine. |
In
Jealous Rage Man Shoots Wife
Five Times Then Kills Himself
A 33 year old man, identified as Raúl Jirón Reyes, decided to act on his
jealous rage by shooting his
wife five times, while she
walked home with child in arms
and her 18 year old brother.
Reyes, thinking he had killed
his wife, then turned the gun on
himself.
Gasoline
Price To Drop ˘25 Colones
The announcement came on
Thursday, the day that gasoline
prices jumped ˘31 coloes per
litre, that the Refinadora Costarricense de
Petróleo (Recope) would be
requesting a decrease, but no
amount was mentioned.
Presidential Election Vote Count
Continues
Following the election almost
two weeks ago, the Tribunal
Supremo de Elecciones (TSE),
still has to announce a winner
and thus the new president.
Donations from Taiwan
Under oath at a Court in San
Jose, second vice-president, Luis Fishman, declared that
President Abel Pacheco had been
aware of a us$300,000 donation
from Taiwan for his political
campaign leading to the 2002
election.
Guatemala Readies Anti-CAFTA
March
Guatemalan popular sectors
announced a march for Feb 24
against the US-devised CAFTA-DR
that will gather some 40,000
farmers, unionists, indigenous
peoples, teachers and youth.
Uribe
Falls Short at US-FTA Talks
Neither the presence of
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
nor his close ties with
Washington relaxed the US
position to close Saturday the
Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
between both nations.
Chile
Communists: Out of Haiti
The Communist Party of Chile on
Friday called for an end to the
military occupation of Haiti as
soon as possible, and criticized
the incoherence of Chile´s
right-wing
Colombian rebels restart talks
in Cuba
The National Liberation Army (ELN),Colombia's
second-largest rebel group,
began a second round of talks
with Luis Carlos Restrepo, the
Colombian peace commissioner, in
Cuba on Friday.
Chavez
threatens to cut off oil exports
to US
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
on Friday threatened to cut off
oil exports to the United States
if it "goes over the line".
VENEZUELA-US:
Escalating
Tensions Kept in Check by Oil
The U.S.
government of George W. Bush,
which has labeled President Hugo
Chávez its biggest worry in
Latin America, has now begun to
lobby allies in a diplomatic
campaign to counter the
Venezuelan leader.
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