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*Earthquake Leaves Eight Dead and 526 Homes Damaged

The scare came at 2:07am Saturday morning, as a strong Earthquake woke most

Costa Ricans living in the Central Pacific and Central Valley regions.

The quake registered 6.2 on the Richter scale and according to the

Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (Ovsicori) more than

200 aftershocks have been registered since. with the strongest at 8:00am

Saturday morning and at 9:00am Sunday.

The epicenter was located about 10km northeast of Quepos with a depth of

about 30km and felt as far away as Cartago. The cause is a movement in the

plates between Costa Rica and Panama, which was unexpected by experts as it

is a new fault that has been discovered and needs to be investigated.

Hard hit were the towns of Quepos and Parrita, leaving many without power,

telephone and water for hours. The small community of Damas suffered much

damage, and left the community without water until Saturday night.

Reports of damage came from other parts of the country, especially in the

Central Valley, as many homes in Alajuela and Cartago were damaged.

In Quepos and Parrita, more than 150 families took shelter in the homes of

family and friends as their homes needed extensive repairs.

The main road that connects the communities of Quepos and Parrita to Jaco

Beach and San José also suffered damage. Engineers were concerned about the

bridges, most of them new, built during the last two years. The bridges were

given the green light and the road was re-opened following an close

inspection a few hours after sunrise.

The seven of the deaths registered were due to heart attacks suffered from

the shock of the earthquake. Most of those who died of heart attacks were

elderly, including several people in their 90s.

One death was due to a traffic accident, when a man riding a motorcycle lost

control and hit a light post while riding on the General Cañas highway.

The Red Cross says that it attended to many emergency calls and treated a

large number of patients with minor injuries suffered during the earthquake.

The Comisión Nacional de Emergencias (CNE) recommends that during an

earthquake you should remain calm and move to a safe place in your home,

under a cross beam, if you cannot safely go outside. You should disconnect

all electrical and gas connections. If you are driving during an earthquake,

get off the paved road and get as far away from the roadway, trees, power

lines and areas that are prone to landslides.


*Ibero-American Nations Agree on Permanent Organization

Leaders of the 21 Ibero-American states voted over the weekend to turn the

organization into a formal, permanent international community by early next

year as they ended a summit meeting in San José.

The leaders approved plans to promote education, denounce ''terrorism in all

its forms'' and called for working together - rather than alone - to solve

global problems.

Until now, the Ibero-American gatherings have been more or less isolated

summit meetings. However, they increasingly refer to themselves as a

community.

The nations agreed to create a new post of secretary-general in the first

half of 2005, establishing a new international bureaucracy, based in Spain to

oversee action on their resolutions.

''In a few months, Ibero-America will speak as a legal entity in the world

and with political relevance,'' Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez

Zapatero told a news conference.

Zapatero noted that the new organization would link 500 million people in the

Spanish and Portuguese speaking nations of Europe and the Americas.

Enrique Iglesias, current president of the Inter-American Development Bank,

was widely mentioned as the most likely candidate for the secretary's post.

In other agreements, the delegates urged lenders to let poor nations pay part

of their debts by investing in education. Spain vowed to do so next year.

Zapatero also promised Central American countries he would try to win them a

free-trade pact with the European Union next year.

Cuba won a resolution denouncing all forms of terrorism - implicitly

including attacks on Cuba - and criticizing a Panamanian pardon for four men

accused of trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. Three of the men - referred to

by the summit leaders as ''known terrorists'' - live in the United States.

New Panama President Martin Torrijos had bitterly opposed the pardon granted

by his predecessor, Mireya Moscoso, days before she left office on Sept. 1.

Cuba announced it would begin to restore ties with Panama that were cut after

Moscoso's action.

Before the summit began, a strong, early-morning earthquake shook the

delegates attending the summit from their beds.


*Costa Rican Leads Struggle in the US

She speaks perfect English and got top grades in high school, but the gates

to college are closed for her. Marie Gonzalez has lived in Jefferson City,

Missouri, for 14 years, but she is not a legal resident, therefore she cannot

enroll in college.

So she now leads some 70,000 Hispanics who are in the same condition and are

struggling for Congress to pass an act aimed at legalizing the status of

illegal aliens who arrived at the US before their 16th birthday, have lived

in that nation for at least five years, have no criminal record, and want to

go to college.

Marie, 18, wants to be a lawyer.


*Fight for Sharks

Several Costa Rican organizations have launched a campaign to put an end to a

widespread killing of sharks just for their fins.

They are enlisting the help of congressmen for the enactment of a law banning

"finning" - a rough translation of the Spanish "aletear" -, a practice

consisting in cutting off the fins of sharks in order to export them to

Taiwan, mainly.


*Leaders of Spain, Portugal, Latin America urge Falklands dialogue
Leaders from Spain, Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America urged

Britain and Argentina to renew their dialogue on the Falkland islands, known

in Argentina as the Malvinas.

"The heads of state and government ... reaffirm the need for the governments

of Argentina and Britain to resume as soon as possible negotiations aimed at

achieving a swift solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas

islands," a special statement issued by the Ibero-American summit in Costa

Rica's capital said.

The 1982 war over the Falklands, some 550 kilometers (350 miles) off the

Argentine coast, left 649 Argentine and 255 British soldiers dead.

Argentina told a United Nations committee in June 2003 that its claim to the

islands was a top priority and a month later Argentine President Nestor

Kirchner told British Prime Minister Tony Blair that the two countries

should revive talks on the islands' status.

The two countries resumed diplomatic relations only in the early 1990s and

Blair in 2001 became the first British premier to visit Argentina since the

war.

Relations cooled again in December when Kirchner urged Britain to apologize

for transporting nuclear weapons on British ships during the war.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said participant nations

also had backed a planned Alliance of Civilizations, aimed at fostering

dialogue between Christians and Moslems.

"This was a very important step for this idea to move forward at the United

Nations," the socialist Spanish leader said.

The leaders also signed a declaration at the end of the summit committing

their nations to taking a bigger role in the economic and political recovery

of Haiti ahead of elections scheduled for next year.

The Ibero-American gathering was largely overshadowed by the Asia Pacific

Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago, also held over the weekend, and a

strong earthquake that rocked San Jose.

And it was marked by the absence of presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of

Brazil, Ricardo Lagos of Chile, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Alejandro Toledo of

Peru, Jorge Fernando Brando de Sampaio of Portugal and Hugo Chavez of

Venezuela.

Education also was on the agenda, and a draft of the final declaration calls

for "creative" new approaches to tackle the lack of funding in that sector.

Visiting dignitaries were jolted into action early Saturday -- if not by the

work ahead of them by the strong earthquake that shook central Costa Rica

early Saturday. Authorities linked eight deaths to the quake.

"I thought it was a train going through a station," quipped Spain's King Juan

Carlos. "I went back to sleep."

Seismic experts at Costa Rica's National University said the quake's

magnitude was six on the Richter scale and said the epicenter was about 10

kilometers (six miles) north of Puerto Quepos on Costa Rica's west coast.

The US Geological Survey measured the quake at 6.2 and located its epicenter

40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of San Jose, at a depth of 23 kilometers

(14 miles).


*Peru Vows to Keep US Woman in Prison

Peruvian officials say they will not free a U.S. woman serving a 20-year

sentence for terrorist collaboration, even if a regional human rights court

orders her release.

Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez said Saturday if the Inter-American Court

of Human Rights orders Lori Berenson's release, Peru would refuse.

The Costa Rica-based court is set to discuss the case this coming week.

Berenson was arrested in 1995 and accused of involvement in a failed attempt

by the rebel Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement to seize Peru's Congress.

A military court initially convicted and sentenced Berenson to life in prison

for treason.

That sentence was overturned and she was re-tried by a civilian court. She

was acquitted of being an active member of the rebel group but convicted of

helping the guerrillas plan the attack on the Congress.

Berenson has maintained her innocence.


*Movie stars lend weight to Fort Benning protest

COLUMBUS, Ga., — More than 16,000 persons gathered outside Fort Benning here

Sunday morning for the annual demonstration against the Western Hemisphere

Institute for Security Cooperation.

That’s the 3-year-old name of the former School of the Americas.

Demonstrators claim that many graduates of the institute have committed

serious crimes, including rape and murder, throughout Latin America. Many of

the protestors referred specifically to a case involving six Jesuit priests

who were murdered in El Salvador in 1989.

Law officers arrested more than 20 persons during the protest. Many of those

arrested, were caught jumping over a chain link fence onto military property.

Lead by actors Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon, and the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a

Catholic priest, the demonstration took on the form of a funeral procession.

Some carried small, white wooden crosses.

The institute was originally known as the School of Americas, but changed its

name in January of 2001. This is the location where the United States trains

mid-level and higher military officers from foreign countries.

The demonstrations have been held annually for 14 years, but this was the

first year that a 10-foot tall chain link fence greeted protestors on their

route. The
protestors who hopped over the fence knew they would be arrested, but did so

as an act of nonviolence civil disobedience, according to protest sponsors.

Across town, the God Bless Fort Benning Festival attracted about an equal

number of persons, including about 7,000 soldiers.

COMMENT: it is very disturbing to note, as reported here last week, that the
School of the Assassins may be coming back to Panama by their new wanna be
dictator president, son of past dictator Torrijos. I have no idea what the
people of Panama were thinking when they elected him, but I am sure they
regret it now.

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