Monge faces a $600,000 lawsuit for defamation against the company. The legislator said he couldn’t afford to pay the suit, but fired back he could do some community work “by planting some yellow almond trees as a way to make up for the ones (Industrias Infinito) destroyed.”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla and other leaders met in Guatemala City to discuss how to better fight crime and narco-trafficking in the region.
