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Professional Dancer, Instructor and Choreographer World Salsa Champion and Dancing With the Stars Dancer She is World Champion World Salsa Summit Miami 2015, Women's Soloist, World Championships Salsa Open 2013, Women's Soloist and National Salsa Champion, Costa Rica 2012, Women's Soloist. Jiménez, who since childhood has immersed himself in the world of dance and practiced jazz, ballet ...

The vaquita is a very small porpoise that lives solely in the Gulf of California, Mexico. The species is critically endangered primarily as a result of entanglement in fishing nets. Strong measures are needed to stop harmful fishing practices in its habitat or the species stands little chance of survival, says the World Wildlife Fund on their website. An ambitious, emergency plan to help save t...

Costa Rican president, Luis Guillermo Solís, during his visit this month to Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah announced his country will establish an embassy and commercial office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In an interview with EFE during his first tour of an Arab state, he said that the opening of both initiatives has already been approved with the goal of "broadening and consolidating bila...

Mexico City, Jan 18 (EFE).- A Mexican activist honored in 2005 with the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his work in the northern state of Chihuahua was murdered last weekend, a source in the state Attorney General's Office told EFE Wednesday. Isidro Baldenegro was fatally shot around 4:00 p.m. Sunday, but it took authorities several days to reach the crime scene in the remote indige...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s outgoing Foreign Minister, dedicated his last official visit to Colombia this month to launch the Colombo-German Institute for Peace, or Capaz, its acronym in Spanish. Colombia’s daily El Espectador interviewed Steinmeier about this institute dedicated to teaching, research and consulting on the important peace process underway in Colombia. Following is an edi...

Geneva, Jan. 18 — Last year was the hottest on record, with an average temperature 1.1 degrees Centigrade (2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in pre-industrial times, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. The WMO said it combined data from NASA, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the British Meteorological Office and the European Centre for Medi...

January 16, 2017: Forty of the world's biggest companies agreed Monday find sustainable ways to make and consume plastic as the waste threatens the globe’s eco-systems, especially oceans, said international media reporting on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The planet's dangerously polluted oceans will contain more plastic waste than fish by 2050 if urgent action isn't taken, th...

Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 17 — Brazilian health authorities are on alert after the outbreak of yellow fever, with 47 cases detected in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais and given the risk that it could spread to nearby areas where possible cases are starting to be detected.The Health Ministry confirmed Tuesday that 152 suspected cases of the disease have been detected in 26 municipalities in rural...

Madrid, Jan. 16 — Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC said Monday it will pay a total of around 671 million pounds sterling ($810 million) to law enforcement authorities in the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil to settle bribery and corruption charges, according to a report from Dow Jones Newswires. The company, which manufactures jet engines and marine diesel engines, said it had reached deferred ...

Sydney, Australia, Jan. 16 — The Australian government on Monday condemned Japan for resuming its whaling activities in Antarctic waters following the release of photographs of a dead protected whale aboard a Japanese ship inside Australia's Antarctic whale sanctuary. Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said the Australian government was "deeply disappointed" after the Sea Shepherd organizatio...

Berlin, Jan. 15 — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with the German daily Bild that NATO is "obsolete" and accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of committing a "catastrophic mistake" with her refugee policy to allow some 890,000 refugees, many of them from Syria, into the country in 2015. "I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, y...

Mexico City, Jan. 14 — A fish endemic to Mexico's Gulf of California has been the target of poaching for decades because its swim bladder is highly coveted in China, where it is believed to possess aphrodisiac and medicinal properties. Illegal fishing of the critically endangered totoaba furthermore threatens to drive another unique marine species to extinction, such as the vaquita, a type of p...

Santiago, Jan. 14 — An eco-terrorist group on Saturday said it was responsible for a parcel bomb that detonated at the home of the chairman of the board of Chilean state-owned mining giant Codelco, the world's biggest copper producer. In an Internet blog site, the group known as Individualists Tending toward the Wild (ITS-Chile) posted a statement in which it claimed responsibility for Friday's...

Chicago, IL, Jan. 13 — An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice has determined that the Chicago Police Department often uses deadly force in ways that violate the country's Constitution, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said here Friday. The DoJ probe was launched after a white CPD officer was indicted for murder in the shooting death of African American teenager Laquan McDonald. The d...

BEIJING, Jan. 13 -- China's state tabloid accused U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state of "rabble rousing" and warned of "war," after Rex Tillerson condemned Beijing's construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea during his Senate confirmation hearing. The Global Times editorial published Friday called Tillerson's suggestion to block China's access to the...

MishCatt the artistic pseudonym for Michelle Gonzalez, a singer-songwriter from San Jose, Costa Rica. She has previously performed and released music in the Costa Rica-based pop band Patterns, but left the band in 2014 to focus on her solo project. She released her debut EP "EP" in March 2016, and it quickly became the most played Costa Rican artist in the history of Spotify, getting more t...

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The Melico Salazar Theatre is located in San José, Costa Rica. It maintains a full schedule of concerts, recitals, and plays. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Montevideo, Jan. 11 — A municipal program in the Uruguayan capital is inviting non-governmental organizations to join a project to help men who have abused their partners to change their behavior, Gender Equality Office director Patricia Gonzalez told EFE. "There's a lot of work done with women on how to end an abusive relationship and how to get out of the situation. But men are just punished an...

Executives from Honeywell’s global distributor for solar technology, Global Solar Trading BV (GST), visited El Salvador recently to meet with Solanda, a local company providing renewable energy technology. The two companies clinched a deal to distribute and expand solar technology in Central America. "El Salvador's energy potential is high, as there are an average of six hours of intensive s...

Buenos Aires, Jan. 10 — President Mauricio Macri said Tuesday that oil companies and unions reached an agreement to produce natural gas at Vaca Muerta, one of the world's largest shale oil and gas fields, in a deal that will generate $5 billion in investment in Argentina this year alone. "The companies are committed to a virtuous investment process that will be $5 billion" in 2017 and double in s...

New York, Jan. 11 — U.S.-based Trigger Finance has created a new mobile application to alert users when President-elect Donald Trump tweets about a company in which they have invested. The Trump Trigger app, which is free but currently available only for iPhones, was launched in early January to give investors a heads up about changes in the price of their shares, given that the stock markets p...

Mexico City, Jan. 10 — Investigators have not determined why a U.S. citizen, who was arrested and later deported, shot the U.S. vice consul in Guadalajara, the capital of the western Mexican state of Jalisco, last week, Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray said Tuesday. "I have no information that allows me to speculate on the motive for this person's actions," Videgaray said in an...

HYATTSVILLE, Md., Jan. 6, 2017 – A former member of the Guatemalan army, whom witnesses say participated in a massacre there more than three decades ago that claimed over 200 lives, was arrested today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and charged in immigration court with having assisted or otherwise participated in extrajudicial killings du...

The Jamaica Tourist Board has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with United States-based online company Airbnb Inc. for the promotion of the country’s tourism product, particularly in the area of accommodation. Airbnb is an online marketplace that connects people wanting to rent their homes and spaces with people needing affordable accommodations. Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett ...

Guatemala, Jan. 9 — The discovery of three bodies on the slopes of Guatemala's Acatenango Volcano on Monday raised to six the number of hikers who died there, possibly of hypothermia caused by the cold front that has seized the country. The head of the Conred emergency management office, Sergio Cabañas, confirmed that the three lifeless bodies were found Monday on the volcano, located between t...

Detroit, Jan. 9 — South Korean automobile manufacturer Kia announced on the weekend the official debut of its new Stinger sports sedan, to be revealed at the North American International Auto Show, which kicked off on Monday in Detroit. Kia said that it is planning to sell the Stinger, which is based on the same-named prototype that the firm presented at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, in the Un...

Taipei, Jan. 7 — The president of Taiwan on Saturday embarked on a trip to Central America, with controversial stopovers in the United States, in a bid to strengthen the island nation's ties with Latin America after the re-emergence of its diplomatic war with China. Tsai Ing-wen, accompanied by businessmen and officials, will travel to Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador - four of Ta...

WATERBURY, Vermont, U.S., Jan. 7 — Single-serve coffee machine manufacturer Keurig will partner with brewer Anheuser Busch-InBev to create an in-home cocktail and beer maker, the companies said. The as-yet-unnamed device will be able to dispense beer, spirits, cocktails and mixers, the companies said in a joint press release Friday. Keurig has already begun experimenting with cold drink disp...

Havana, Jan. 6 — The U.S. airline Alaska Air began flying commercially to Cuba Thursday with daily flights linking Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California with the Cuban capital of La Havana, following the resumption of regular flights between the two countries in August 2016 after half a century. The new route makes Alaska Air the eighth airline authorized to operate regular flights to...

By Wendy Anders Media around the world are taken by an exceptional nine-minute Chilean Navy video of a UFO displaying highly unusual behavior, studied by Chilean authorities for the last two years, and now released to the public. The CEFAA - the Chilean government agency which investigates UFOs, or UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena), has been in charge of the investigation. Located within t...

Tokyo, Jan. 6 — Japan decided Friday to recall its ambassador in Seoul over a controversial statue dedicated to comfort women that was installed in front of its consulate in South Korea. The statue was erected last week in front of the Japanese diplomatic mission in the coastal city of Busan by a civic organization after the local government's approval and provoked a protest from Tokyo. "We ...

Miami, Jan. 6 — The man who fatally shot five people and wounded eight others Friday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) appears to have acted alone, authorities said, stressing that it was too early to say whether the motive was terrorism. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told a press conference at the scene that the shooter offered no resistance when officers arrested ...

La Habana, Jan. 5 — The Cuban Coabana Trading Company LLC, a subsidiary of Reneo Consulting, will export charcoal produced in Cuba from an invasive plant to the United States in a historic step as part of the countries’ improving relations. An agreement was signed Thursday with the state-owned Cuba Export company. The charcoal is produced by private cooperatives from marabou, an invasive pla...

Forget pallbearers - in Taiwan, fifty exotic female dancers were hired to exhibit their moves on top of luxury vehicles in an unusual, and steamy way to see a Taiwanese politician off to the afterlife, said international reports. The son of the deceased Chiayi county politician, Tung Hsiang, organized the procession, as he spoke of his father’s excitement for life to the Oriental Daily News. ...

Turrialba Volcano is an active volcano, most recently eruptive in September 2016 in central Costa Rica. Visitors used to be able to hike down into the main crater. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org...

Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican diplomat with 35 years of experience in high level national and international policy and multilateral negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen. During the next six years she dedicated herself to rebuilding the global...

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Jerusalem, Jan. 2 — Several senior Israeli officials have urged soldiers and police to "shoot-to-kill" Palestinians since a wave of attacks began in Oct. 2015, the international Human Rights Watch denounced in a report published Monday. According to the study, Israeli officials have encouraged soldiers and police to kill Palestinians suspected of attacking Israelis, even in cases where they pos...