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The US Navy Hospital Ship “Comfort” will provide free medical care to Panamanians as part of a humanitarian assistance tour throughout the Caribbean, Central America and Colombia.
The US Navy Hospital Ship “Comfort” will dock next Monday, for the purpose of conducting a humanitarian assistance mission throughout the Caribbean, Central America and Colombia.
Hundreds of tour operators from around the world will meet at the XXV Expotur Fair, to be held in Costa Rica starting this Thursday, which features innovations designed to protect the environment, the event’s organizers reported.
Today the United States Southern Command in El Salvador introduced an unmanned aircraft that could help combat drug trafficking in Central America, and which will be tested in a surveillance center for two weeks.
San Salvador, 12 May (EFE). - Today General Glenn Spears and Paul Trivelli, Deputy Commanders of the U.S. Southern Command, delivered to Salvadoran authorities a shipment of equipment which will help protect health personnel treating cases of influenza A.
Today indigenous women in Guatemala condemned racism, discrimination, violence, and neo-liberal policies that threaten that sector, and demanded that Álvaro Colom’s government respect their human rights.
Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli won Panama's presidential election in a landslide Sunday, promising to guide the country through the world economic crisis and an ambitious expansion of the Panama Canal.
Panama, April 17 (EFE) - Today Panama surrendered three Colombian FARC guerrillas that had been held in that country to United States judicial authorities so they may be tried for crimes against collective security, the Foreign Ministry reported.
On April 21 four musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic will go to Costa Rica to train 133 young people who are part of the Central American Youth Orchestra (OJC) and work with them.
Costa Rica has created an antivenin serum to combat the venom of three Nigerian serpents which bite a total of 150,000 people a year, official sources told Efe today.
On Thursday Guatemala's government ordered a ban on two people traveling on one motorcycle to combat killings ordered by criminal organizations, which often employ two people on two-wheeled vehicles to execute their assignments.
Nine members of Joint Task Force-Bravo´s medical element partnered with the Honduran Ministry of Health and several non-government organizations to treat hundreds of patients at a health fair here March 24 – an effort that drew praise from the President of Honduras.
