Monday 14
April 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Today is a legal holiday in Costa Rica.
All government agencies and
institutions, banks and most businesses
are closed to observe the "Aniversario
de la Batalla de Rivas" on April 11.
Security Vice-Minister
Quits
The ministro de
Seguridad Pública has
suffered another hit,
the second in less than
two weeks, as
vice-minister, Rafael Gutiérrez, called it
quits.
Gallopinto A Total
Success
Some came as far as the
coastal areas to enjoy a
free "gallopinto" which
was on the menu on Paseo
Colon yesterday, where
some 40.000 plates were
served.
Buses Waiting
Cross Town Service Approval
Although the concession for the "rutas
intersectoriales" (the cross town bus
routes) has yet to be handed out,
someone has the inside information, as
one bus operator already has his buses
bought and parked, waiting out the
awarding of the concession.
Residents Angered
By Heavy Trucks Using Side Streets To
Avoid Traffic Congestion
Residents of Hatillo 5 have had enough
of the daily transit of heavy trucks
through their neighbourhood and have
sent Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias,
a letter, pleading his intervention in
the matter.
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Central America Poverty
Deepening Says Forecast
Tendency to hike in food
prices will dig in
poverty even more in
Central America, where
the cost of living
increased substantially
during the first quarter
of 2008.
Visa-Free Nicaraguan
Trip For Iranians
Nicaraguan authorities
lifted the need for visa
for Iranian citizens who
want to travel to the
country for tourism
stays or business
purposes.
Correa Asks Calderon to
Fight Poverty
Ecuador President Rafael
Correa said 85 percent
of the problems in Latin
America can be solved
with pragmatism and
sensibility, and invited
his Mexican counterpart,
Felipe Calderon, to join
such efforts.
Venezuela Remembers
April 13
Celebrations on the
anniversary of the
rescue of
constitutionality in
Venezuela after the coup
against President Hugo
Chavez six years ago
will conclude with a
popular mobilization
Sunday, convoked at the
same place where the
main deeds occurred
then.
Cubans in Bolivia
Condemn US Blockade
The Association of Cuban
people living in Bolivia
condemned the US
economic, political and
commercial blockade
imposed to the Caribbean
island for more than 46
years.
VENEZUELA:
Barí People Left Without
Land by Oil, Cattle,
Coal
For 900 years, Barí
indigenous hunters
roamed freely throughout
a vast region in western
Venezuela. "Now they
want to sentence us to
die by locking us up in
this corral, watching
the white man get rich
by destroying the land
that used to be ours,"
says schoolteacher
Conrado Akambio.
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