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5.400 Affected By
Tropical Storm Alma
Although the storm
passed and the sun shone
on most parts of the
country yesterday a
number of communities
are still feeling the
effect of the heavy rain
and strong winds that
caused flooding and
mudslides in many areas.
900 Trapped
In Cerro de la Muerte
Rescued
Some 900 people had to
endure the cold, rain
and mud for almost 40
hours after being
trapped since Thursday
in the area known as
Cerro de la Muerte, on
the Intermaricana Sur
highway between San José
and Perez Zeledon, due
to some 15 mudslides
that blocked and closed
off some 10 kilometres
of the highway.
Ticos Survive TACA
Airline Crash
Airline officials
confirm that 24 Costa
Ricans were among the
survivors of the TACA
airplane that crashed in
Honduras on Friday.
Overtime Pay
Disputes Creates Backlog in Limón Port
More backlogs at the
Puerto de Limón will continue after the
Junta de Administración Portuaria y de
Desarrollo Económico de la Vertiente
Atlántica (Japdeva) stopped paying dock
workers for overtime.
Everest Defeats
Tica
Costa Rican climber
Gineth Soto started the conquest of
Everest in mid April, but she had to
quit 1,700 meters (5,577 feet) from the
top.
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Tropical Storm Alma
Kills 3 in Nicaragua
Three people were
killed, 10 others are
missing and more than
25,000 have been made
homeless by tropical
storm Alma, which
pummeled Nicaragua with
heavy rains Thursday,
the Nicaraguan Civil
Defense agency said
Friday.
Panama To Investigate
Helicopter Crash Killing
6 Chilean Police
Officers
Panamanian President
Martin Torrijos promised
Friday that his
government will
investigate Thursday's
helicopter crash, which
left 11 people dead, six
of them members of the
Chilean police.
Death Toll In Plane
Accident In Honduras
Rises To Five
At least five people
have been killed and 65
others hospitalized as a
plane smashed into cars
and a building after
skidding off runway
Friday at the Toncontin
airport in Tegucigalpa,
the capital of Honduras.
Ecuador Hit from
Colombia Again
The raid carried out by
alleged Colombian
paramilitaries on a
bordering Ecuadorian
locality revives Friday
the diplomatic crisis
between both countries,
which have severed
diplomatic relations
since March.
Venezuela Warns of
Democracy Hits
Followers of Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez
are reinforcing the
campaign towards the
regional elections in
November, amid warnings
that the opposition has
activated
anti-democratic plans.
CUBA:
Urban Farming, More
Necessary Than Ever
In spite of its soil
being hard to plough,
saline, shallow and
stony, this Cuban
municipality, the
location of the largest
and best preserved
wetland in the
Caribbean, has more than
140 farmers working in
urban agriculture, a
phenomenon that is
important for the
country’s food security.
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