Daily Edition: San José, Costa Rica, October 11, 2005
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Costa Rican Red Cross Joins
Hurricane Stan Relief Efforts
The Costa Rican Red Cross will send volunteers, specialists and humanitarian aid to Guatemala and El Salvador, devastated last week by Hurricane Stan.
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Fair Promotes Central
American Tourism
PANAMA CITY, Panama (ACAN-EFE) – Representatives of the public and private tourism sector expressed support for the strategy of promoting Central America as a single tourist destination during the Central American Tourism Fair, which began here yesterday and ends tomorrow.
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Trial For Journalist's
Murder to Start in May
The trial of Uruguayan business leader Eugenio Millot and five Colombians accused of the 2003 murder of Costa Rican journalist Ivannia Mora will begin May 2, 2006, according to a statement from the Judicial Branch. The trial will take place in the Second Judicial Circuit of San José.
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October 11
Free Film Presentation
of the Movie “Amarcord”
By Federico Fellini, a story about Italian traditions, in Italian with subtitles in Spanish, today at 5 p.m., Paraninfo, UNED, road to Sabanilla. Info: 283-0263.
20th Anniversary of APREFLOFAS
The celebration includes a concert by pianist Manuel Obregón, tonight at 7:30 p.m., at the Melico Salazar Theater. Info: 233-8814.
Film Showings
In Spanish, “ Como Agua para Chocolate,” Mexico, today at 5 p.m. and “ Il Postino,” Italy, tomorrow at 5 p.m., both at José Figueres Cultural Center, San Ramón, Alajuela. Info: 447-2178.
Edited By María Gabriela Díaz
Tico Times Staff
mgdiaz@ticotimes.net
Costa Rican Red Cross Joins
Hurricane Stan Relief Efforts
By María Gabriela Díaz
Tico Times Staff
mgdiaz@ticotimes.net
The Costa Rican Red Cross will send volunteers, specialists and humanitarian aid to Guatemala and El Salvador, devastated last week by Hurricane Stan.
“We do not yet have knowledge of all the elements, but this (relief) could last months – especially reestablishment of the water supply and food distribution,” Jorge Rovira, national assistant chief of aid and operations, told The Tico Times yesterday.
According to Rovira, the Red Cross sent one specialist in logistics and another in damage evaluation to Guatemala yesterday on a 15-22 day mission.
A Red Cross coordinator, expected to leave today, will accompany the specialists and remain in the country for three months, Rovira said.
Today, the organization will also send two 12-ton trucks to El Salvador for water and food distribution, a dispatch solicited by the International Federation of Red Cross Societies and the German Red Cross – organizations that defined Costa Rica as the Central American site for disaster relief, the Red Cross said in a statement.
Costa Rican Red Cross Chief of Aid and Operations Guillermo Arroyo said in the statement that the organization might send two more trucks to Guatemala this week. Twelve Red Cross volunteers were also dispatched to both countries to assist in the rescue mission.
Rovira said El Salvador has been very hard hit, suffering the effects of an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in addition to the flooding.
In Guatemala, the hurricane has caused 652 deaths and forced 93,893 people into shelters, according to the wire service ACAN-EFE.
The Costa Rican Red Cross is accepting donations in colones to account number 176-003-3 and in dollars to 204-6 at the Bank of Costa Rica.
Fair Promotes Central
American Tourism
PANAMA CITY, Panama (ACAN-EFE) – Representatives of the public and private tourism sector expressed support for the strategy of promoting Central America as a single tourist destination during the Central American Tourism Fair, which began here yesterday and ends tomorrow.
Panamanian Vice-President Samuel Lewis Navarro and Spain 's Secretary General of Tourism, Raimon Martínez, participated in the second “Central American Travel Market,” along with the ministers of tourism of Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica – Rubén Blades, María Nelly Rivas, and Rodrigo Castro, respectively.
“For the first time, the seven countries of the region are going to forget their individual characteristics to unite and promote themselves together in international markets,” Martínez said.
While some countries have united for tourism on some levels, it has never before been done to this extent, he said.
“We feel absolutely involved on all levels… and ready to collaborate in this development,” he added.
Spain has allowed the seven Central American countries access to its tourism portal on the Internet so they can promote themselves as a single destination.
The goal of the fair is to determine ways the region can promote itself to Europe and Asia as a multi-destination attraction.
The region must “establish conditions that allow the existence of complementary regional tourism offers,” said Panama 's Minister Blades.
Trial For Journalist's
Murder to Start in May
The trial of Uruguayan business leader Eugenio Millot and five Colombians accused of the 2003 murder of Costa Rican journalist Ivannia Mora will begin May 2, 2006, according to a statement from the Judicial Branch. The trial will take place in the Second Judicial Circuit of San José.
Eugenio Millot is accused of the crime of homicide as the intellectual author of the murder, while five Colombians – Edouard Serna, Freddy Cortés, Nelson López, John Nieves and Eduardo de Jesús Martinez – are standing trial for the physical crime.
In 1999, journalist Mora worked in the Red Castle Group owned by Millot, where she was in charge of the financial section of their magazine Estrategia y Negocios.
According to Prosecutor's Office documents published by the daily La Nación in August, “the homicide of the journalist Ivannia Mora was preceded by a stress-filled work relationship with her former employer Eugenio Millot, who fearfully saw her as his competition.”
Mora's murder took place in December 2003 while she was driving her vehicle through a crowded street in eastern San José, where two men shot her from a motorcycle and made their escape.
Mora, 33, died minutes later while being transferred to a hospital in San José.
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