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Tropical Storm Stan Claims Dozens of Lives

SAN SALVADOR (EFE) – Salvadoran President Tony Saca declared a national emergency Monday to cope with the effects of ongoing heavy rains of Tropical...

Environmentalists Call on Guatemala to Veto Whale Law

GUATEMALA CITY (EFE) –Environmentalists and human-rights activists this week called on Guatemalan President Oscar Berger to veto legislation ratifying the International Convention for the...

U.S. Judge Rules Against Posada Extradition

EL PASO, Texas (EFE) – A U.S. immigration judge ruled that anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles may not be deported to Cuba or Venezuela,...

Colombia Seizes Honduran Vessel with 72 Crewmembers

BOGOTA, Colombia (EFE) –Colombian naval forces last weekend seized a Honduran vessel with 72 crewmembers for fishing illegally in Bogota’s Caribbean waters, the navy...

Legendary “Pepe” Figueres: The KGB’s Man?

LEGENDARY ex-President José “Pepe” Figueres (1948-1949, 1953-1958, 1970-1974) got a boost from the KGB, the former Russian secret police and intelligence agency, when it...

Head to Head

SOUNDING OFF: Presidential candidates Ottón Solís (right) of the Citizen Action Party, Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement Party and Humberto Arce of the...

Floods Continue On Pacific Coast

RAIN and dangerously swelling rivers claimed two lives Monday and continued hounding rural regions of the Pacific slope, especially the northern Pacific province of...

Train Scheduled to Begin Weekday Runs Today

The San José train, originally scheduled to begin its weekday runs at the end of September, was expected to pick up its first passengers...

Quintuplets Born Early, But Healthy in Capital

FIVE babies were born this week to a woman whose pregnancy lasted six and a half months.“They are in good condition and are adequately...

SOS School Prepares for Transformation

(Part two in a three-part series on the United World College.)IN his introduction to the State of the World’s Children address in 1998, United...

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