Archive for July 30th, 2009
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Costa Rican leader, Oscar Arias, who acts as an intermediary in Honduras peace talks, has called for more sanctions against the Honduran coup regime.
Political turmoil shows little signs of abatement as leaders in the Hispanic nations across Central America act in unison in urging tougher sanctions against the military-backed coup government in Honduras.
In his Wednesday speech on the growing rift in the polity of Honduras, the Costa Rican president, who mediated the proxy-talks between the ousted Honduran leader, Manuel Zelaya, and his rival Roberto Micheletti, told reporters that ‘sanctions should continue to be applied’.
Arias said that Micheletti’s administration ‘hasn’t yet recognized that President Zelaya should be reinstated’.
His comments come after the Honduran interim president backed Costa Rica’s mediation, branding it as ‘the best path to achieving a consensus in Honduras’.
On Wednesday, Zelaya said that the Costa Rican-brokered talks had failed, as the interim rulers and the military, which sent Zelaya into exile on June 28, rejected his return to the country as president.
So far the deposed leader has made two aborted attempts to set foot on his homeland but encountered fierce resistance from the country’s opposition.
Honduras has been the scene of political instability in the aftermath of Zelaya’s ouster that has drawn global condemnation.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
1. In October 2008, the Armed Forces of Colombia impounded three rocket launchers in a camp of the Farc ‘narcoterrorist’ group, at La Macarena in the Department of Meta.
2. The Swedish Government has confirmed that the material was manufactured in Sweden and sold to Venezuela in 1988.
3. Sweden has asked for an explanation from Venezuela.
4. Last 2nd of July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Jaime Bermúdez, gave the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during a private meeting in San Pedro de Sula (Honduras), a document in which there is evidence about the possession of those rocket launchers by narcoterrorists of the Farc, which were part of a batch sold by the Swedish Government to the Government of Venezuela in 1988.
5. In that same meeting, on June 2 in San Pedro de Sula, MOFA Bermúdez gave also documentary information, in which two leaders of the Farc narcoterrorist group mention the collaboration received from three officials of the Venezuelan Government in the delivery of some rocket launchers, similar to the ones impounded by the Armed Forces in La Macarena.
6. The Government of Colombia gave that information in a discrete way, in order to get clarification from Venezuela.
7. Until now, Venezuela has not answered, despite our permanent and reiterative disposition for dialogue.
8. The Government of Colombia has received additional information which confirms that the Farc narcoterrorist group has been trying to get earth-air missiles.
9. The Farc narcoterrorist group arranges the acquisition of the earth-air missiles through international weapon traffickers form other countries.
10. The Government of Colombia has asked and asks these other countries for collaboration, to avoid terrorist weapon trafficking and capture traffickers
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
In less than 48 hours when the first-ever World Games of any sport is realized in our country, the Federacion de Surf de Costa Rica (FSC) gets ready tomorrow to announce the final 8 surfers who will compete in the Billabong International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games Costa Rica 2009. The World Surfing Games will take place in Playa Hermosa de Jacó beginning Friday and running through August 7.During the press conference, which will be located at Hotel Enchanted Bay–a Day Star project–in Jacó at 4:00 p.m., José Ureña, President of the FSC and Technical Director of the Costa Rica Team, will announce the 4 surfers in the Open Category, 2 in the Women and 2 in Longboard.
This morning was the last official training for Costa Rica in front of Terrazas del Pacifico Podium 1, where with the endorsement of Ureña, the group worked on tactical points and a defensive game, manifested by the first good maneuver by route.
“The days and days of training that we have had with our boys and girls have served us well to know how to locate ourselves on the inside and to understand very well where is really the best place to wait for the waves. We trust that the errors would be something very atypical from us out there,” affirmed Alex Valverde, a member of Costa Rica’s tricolor Technical Team and an ISA International Judge. (more…)
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
YIKES – I only wanted a snap!
This is the moment a terrified tourist nearly had her head bitten off by a hungry crocodile.
The German woman was on a tour in Costa Rica, South America, when the crafty croc tried to make a meal out of her.
He was just inches from her face on the Tempiski River, leaving her petrified.
It had been woken from his slumber by a guide on the boat who had tried to liven up the docile reptiles by tapping a stick in the water.
When he pulled the stick out of the water, the crocodile tried to follow it, leaping out of the water with it’s jaws wide open.
The petrified tourist ran backwards, but fortunately for them the croc returned to the murky depths of the river.
Canadian photographer Paul Stodonly, 29, who was on the boat behind her and took the picture said: “Everyone on the boat gasped and bolted backwards – it was much too close for comfort.
“We bumped into the woman later on in the trip and showed her the photo.
“She said she’d never experienced anything so scary in her life. All she could see was teeth coming at her.”
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