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Washington, 30 June (EFE).- Today the president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, concludes his visit to Washington, which has been marked by the crisis in Honduras and by Uribe’s efforts to unblock the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States, awaiting ratification by the U.S. Congress.
San José, June 30 (EFE).- The nocturnal butterfly Tetrisia florigera not seen in Costa Rica for ninety-eight years, for which reason scientists believed it had disappeared, until a local researcher found a female specimen in the Caribbean region in January, the National Biodiversity Institute (InBio) announced today.
The 600 American soldiers, sailors and airmen based at Soto Cano Air Base are staying on the base and not conducting exercises with the Honduran military, a spokesperson for the United States Southern Command, in Miami said.
Honduran military forces ousted President Manuel Zelaya and exiled him to Costa Rica hours before a controversial constitutional referendum vote was set to begin. Organization of American States met in emergency session while the Obama administration expressed concern over events in the Central American nation.
Guatemala, June 16 (EFE). - Official sources reported today that Guatemalan antinarcotics agents seized 17,562,000 pseudoephedrine tablets in the port of Quetzal on the Pacific coast of the Central American country.
Managua, June 14 (EFE).- Four baby armadillos, one of the species in danger of extinction in Central America, were rescued by the Nicaraguan environmentalist Kamilo Lara, who belongs to the non-governmental organization “Environmental Alert” (Alerta Ambiental.)
BOGOTA, June 15, 2009 (AFP) - Colombian and Panamanian authorities are working hard to capture the leader of Front 57 of the FARC guerrillas, Gilberto Torres, a.k.a. " El Becerro," (“The Calf”) who is in charge of drug and weapon trafficking on the border, according to the newspaper El Tiempo in Bogota on Monday.
Managua, June 15 (EFE).- The German company Dräxlmaier will invest 25 million dollars launching an automotive harness plant in the department (province) of Masaya, southeast Nicaragua, an official source informed today.
Panama, June 8 (EFE) - Agents of the Panamanian National Police (PN) seized today a total of 67 kilos of cocaine and 17 packets of unspecified quantity of marijuana in a police operation, an official source reported.
Tegucigalpa, June 7 (EFE). - Honduran police rescued without harm the namesake son of the oil businessman Henry Arévalo, who had been kidnapped almost a month ago, and arrested several of his captors, an official source reported today.
Madrid, 05 June (EFE). - Today in Madrid, representatives from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) presented the a general overview of their plan to prevent the expansion of drug trafficking in the areas of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, a project they are developing together with regional organizations and the governments of countries in these…
Panama, 03 June (EFE).-Panama’s Fifth International Book Fair 2009, with Peru as a guest country, expects 300 Latin American editors to be in attendance as well as some 80,000 visitors, the organizers said today.
