NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from November 2005

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from November 2005

RIO SAN JUAN: FROM NICARAGUA AND COSTA RICA TO THE HAGUE.
November 3, 2005... Costa Rica and Nicaragua have failed to resolve a dispute regarding the use of the Rio San Juan. A three-year period the countries had given themselves to negotiate their differences after a Sept. 26, 2002, flare-up has expired, and relations...

CENTRAL AMERICA PLANS FOR AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC.
November 3, 2005... Agriculture ministers of the region met in Guatemala on Oct. 28 to plan strategies to deal with an eventual outbreak of avian flu. The disease is not present in Central America at this time, at least not in its most virulent form, the H5N1...

HURRICANE BETA HITS THE REGION: NICARAGUA TAKES THE BRUNT, HONDURAS SUSTAINS DAMAGE.
November 3, 2005... Hurricane Beta hit Nicaragua as a Category 2 storm with winds of 170km/hr near Sandy Bay Sirpi, 310 km northeast of Managua, on Oct. 30, causing floods, ripping off roofs, and toppling trees. It then swept across the country, weakening as it...

PEMEX TO BRING COMPETITION TO CENTRAL AMERICA'S ENERGY MARKET.
November 10, 2005... Central America stands to become the beneficiary of an oil-fueled imbroglio between Mexico's President Vicente Fox and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Both are seeking, for reasons economic, philosophical, and political, to ease the strain...

PANAMA STOPOVER FAILS AS FACE-SAVER FOR BUSH TRADE MISSION.
November 10, 2005... Fresh from a battering in Argentina, US President George W. Bush arrived in Panama Nov. 6, last stop on a Latin America tour that included a brief stay in Brazil. His 20-hour stay in Panama was designed to put the best face possible on a trade...

WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION RULING FAVORS REGION'S BANANAS, PORTENDS DISASTER IN THE CARIBBEAN.
November 17, 2005... Bolstered by favorable rulings from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the region's banana producers met in Panama Nov. 15 to press the European Union (EU) to reduce tariffs designed to favor African, Caribbean, and Pacific producers in the...

NICARAGUA AND REGION RATIFY UNESCO CONVENTION, BUT GARIFUNAS NEED MORE.
November 17, 2005... Several of the region's state officials gathered on Nicaragua's Corn Island on Nov. 13 to ratify the 2003 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Corn...