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Daily Edition: San José, Costa Rica, October 27, 2006
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| A GORE Flick: President Oscar Arias watched the most recent of numerous screenings of the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, which highlights U.S. Vice President Al Gore's presentations on the threat of global warming. Before and after the screening, the audience listened as Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno, National Liberation Party (PLN) legislator Maureen Ballestero, Minister of Environment and Energy Roberto Dobles and National Meteorological Institute (IMN) meteorologist Roberto Villalobos discussed how Costa Rica is facing global warming. Leland Baxter-Neal/Tico Times |
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Nicaragua Criminalizes Abortion
Nicaragua's Legislative Assembly yesterday capitulated to strong pressure from the religious right by criminalizing all forms of abortion with jail sentences of up to eight years for women and doctors.
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National Children's Museum Celebration
Commemorates
World Food Day
Busloads of schoolchildren visited the National Children's Museum in San José yesterday to celebrate World Food Day, an occasion declared by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to call attention to the role of nutrition in combating poverty worldwide.
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October 27
Today
Orchid Exhibit
Sponsored by the Alajuela Orchid Association, today through Sunday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Instituto de Alajuela gym, northwest of San José.
Voces del Mundo
Tango show, today and tomorrow, 8 p.m., Teatro Mozart, San Francisco de Dos Ríos, ¢3,000 (about $6). Info: 386-1936
National Symphony Orchestra Concert
With pianist Jacques Sagot and the National Symphony Choir and Café Chorale Choir performing works by Mendelssohn and Verdi, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 a.m., National Theater, San José. Info: 221-5341.
Saturday
EXPO Fitness
Exhibition of products and services related to health and exercise, Plaza Real Cariari, San Antonio de Belen, northwest of San José , today through Monday. Info: 842-0244, 203-2230
Pet Adoption
Held by Noah's Arc Association, all animals vaccinated and sterilized, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Plaza Real Cariari, San Antonio de Belen, ¢5,000 donation.
“Bananasaur” -- Myths of Costa Rica with a twist
Halloween movie in English, potluck, 7 p.m., Blanche Brown Theatre, Escazú, west of San José. Info: 355-1623, www.littletheatregroup.org.
Last chance to vote in the US elections.
Third floor of Aurola Holiday Inn, San José, 9:30-noon. Or download an absentee ballot from www.VoteFromAbroad.org. Info: Pat Piessens, 282-5365
Sunday
Salsa Concert
By Lubin Barahona and Los Caballeros el Ritmo, 11:30 a.m., Parque Central, San José .
Pejibaye Fair
With food, crafts, cultural activities and more, through Sunday, Finca Pisirí, Tucurrique, Cartago, east of San José. Info: 205-4100, 205-4120.
Halloween Party
Special dinner menu, drink specials, music, costumes optional, 6-10 p.m., Xandari by the Pacific Resort, Esterillos Este, central Pacific coast. Info: 778-7070.
Edited By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff
aroberson@ticotimes.net
Nicaragua Criminalizes Abortion
By Tim Rogers
Nica Times Staff
trogers@ticotimes.net
Nicaragua's Legislative Assembly yesterday capitulated to strong pressure from the religious right by criminalizing all forms of abortion with jail sentences of up to eight years for women and doctors.
With the support of 52 Sandinista and Liberal lawmakers, the legislature reversed a 100-year-old law allowing women to have abortions in instances when their life is deemed at risk, or to terminate pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
The criminalization of so-called “therapeutic abortion” makes Nicaragua one of less than a dozen countries in the world to outlaw abortions to save a woman's life.
The campaign to criminalize abortion was pushed by the Catholic Church and Evangelical churches, which took advantage of the upcoming election to pressure politicians into passing the law.
The move has been blasted by feminist organizations, as well as the United Nations, the European Union and more than a dozen international rights groups.
The nonprofit Save the Children International has noted that Nicaragua has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Latin America and that many of these pregnancies are a result of rape or incest. Reversing the law on therapeutic abortion negates the rights of these and other women, the group argues.
National Children's Museum
Celebration
Commemorates World Food Day
By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff
aroberson@ticotimes.net
Busloads of schoolchildren visited the National Children's Museum in San José yesterday to celebrate World Food Day, an occasion declared by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to call attention to the role of nutrition in combating poverty worldwide.
“Agriculture may have become a minor player in many industrialized economies, but it must play a starring role on the world stage if we are to bring down the curtain on hunger,” says a statement on FAO's Web site.
The day was officially celebrated Oct. 16, but several organizations in Costa Rica banded together to plan activities for yesterday, explained Anthony García, coordinator of the Sustainable Schools Project, an effort to bring organic food to school lunchrooms (TT, Sept. 1).
Schools that participate in the program, including República de Haiti, in San José's Paso Ancho; Idelfonso Camacho de la Lengua, in Aserrí, south of San José; and Green Valley and Rincón Grande, both in Pavas, west of San José.
About 100 children gathered in one of the museum's sunny, open rooms to listen to the words of Osvaldo Pandolfo, Vice-Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports, and Health Ministry advisor Edgar García, who inaugurated the event.
The students were then able to peruse activity tables set up by organizations including the Center for Rural Development and the Universidad Nacional's (UNA) Tropical Beekeeping Research Center in Heredia, north of San José, according to the statement.
Finally, they released balloons full of seeds into the air to symbolize the growth of nutrient-rich plants.
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