Nameless Storm Is Disaster for El Salvador (New York Times)
A devastating storm that struck El Salvador was not the hurricane that roared through the region but a small low-pressure cell. It killed at least 130 people.
Chinchilla is Clear Frontrunner in Costa Rica (Angus Reid)
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Former vice-president Laura Chinchilla is heavily favoured to become the next president of Costa Rica, according to a poll by Demoscopía published in Al Día. 53 per cent of respondents would vote for the candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN) in next year’s election.
Floods, landslides kill 130 in El Salvador (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Floods and landslides had killed at least 130 people in El Salvador and forced 10,000 from their homes Monday after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of mountainous Central America.
134 die after heavy rains in El Salvador (USA Today)
A wave of floods and landslides has killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
Floods, mudslides kill scores in El Salvador (CNN)
At least 130 people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rains triggered flooding and mudslides that buried communities Sunday and left a swath of destruction in El Salvador, officials said Monday.
Premiere in Costa Rica (FVW.com)
Mit der Eröffnung des ersten Hotels in Costa Rica setzt Riu setzt seinen Expansionskurs fort.
Costa Rica Foreign Investment to Rebound Next Year, Ruiz Says (Bloomberg)
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Costa Rica’s foreign direct investment will return to 2008 levels after falling about 30 percent this year, boosted by tourism and investments in ports and telecommunications projects, said Marco Vinicio Ruiz , the country’s minister of foreign trade.
Constitutional Court of Costa Rica Issues Initial Ruling (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Infinito Gold Ltd. announces that its subsidiary in Costa Rica, Industrias Infinito S.A. , has received notification from the Constitutional Court, or SALA IV, that the SALA IV has voted in favour of a component of the legal challenges which have halted construction on the Company’s Crucitas project.
Floods, landslides kill 124 in El Salvador (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Floods and landslides left at least 124 people dead in El Salvador on Monday after a late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America and took aim for the United States.
Floods, mudslides kill at least 134 in El Salvador (Washington Post)
VERAPAZ, EL SALVADOR — Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
A Weaker Storm Devastated El Salvador (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
MEXICO CITY — A devastating storm that struck El Salvador over the weekend was not the hurricane that roared through the region at the same time and, in fact, it did not even merit a name — which meant little after at least 140 people were killed when rivers burst their banks and hillsides collapsed under a siege of relentless rain.
El Salvador storm toll rises to 136 (Los Angeles Times)
Residents of the hard-hit town of Verapaz recall a thundering roar as earth and boulders poured down Chichontepec volcano, burying homes and inhabitants. Reporting from Verapaz, El Salvador, and Mexico City — The hill-ringed town of Verapaz is now a wasteland of fallen boulders, thigh-deep mud and broken little houses.
Deadly storm kills 124 in El Salvador, heads for US (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A late-season hurricane took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after helping cause flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
Costa Rica aims to double Mideast banana exports (Arabian Business)
World’s third largest banana exporter targets region for major business growth.
