>related to Panama's projected plan on the international level".
>
>The minister told daily "El Universal" that Moscoso's visit comes at an
>important political moment for Mexico and must be seen as a "recognition of
>Zedillo's (Mexican president) efforts to establish a regime where people's
>sovereignty prevails in his country ".
>
>The diplomat recognized that as result of the meeting between Moscoso and
>Zadillo, the countries could reactivate negotiations to sign a bilateral
>Free Trade Treatment.
>
>During the one-day official visit, Moscoso wants to go to the Mexican
>Congress, meet her colleague in the Presidential Palace and open the new
>Panama embassy office in Mexico, besides attending a supper that the Mexican
>president will offer.
>
>The official agenda, pointed out Aleman, includes international political
>topics as well as bilateral aspects, among them, to analyze the action plans
>of Grupo de Rio and the ways of strengthening that mechanism of regional
>concentration. JCT/CCS
>
>
>ANOTHER MAYAN CITY DISCOVERED IN GUATEMALA
>
>GUATEMALA, May 17 (PL) A group of archaeologists discovered a new Mayan
>city, hidden in an lush Guatemalan jungle safe from plunderers, and for
>which they had only imprecise references.
>
>Archaeologist Salvador Lopez, who led the investigations, found the old city
>some days ago, in Pajaral, El Peten Department, northern Guatemala.
>
>According to Lopez, fellow member- North American Ian Graham visited the
>site about 30 years ago.
>
>Nevertheless, that exploration lacked official data and there was not enough
>information to allow other researchers to reach this place.
>
>The Guatemalan explorer said that the notes had errors in El Pajaral's
>geographic coordinates.
>
>The city has been searched for by archaeologists for years, that were
>frustrated in their attempts, mainly because of the maps' vagueness.
>
>Last year, Lopez arrived in Los Cerritos, 16 kilometers from San Diego,
>Libertad, where the villagers showed him the existence of ancient
>constructions.
>
>He explained that after some recognizance of the isolated place, they
>abandoned work, although they made a precise map to exactly locate the
>hillocks and steles found.
>
>The narrow path, impossible to walk in the rainy season, was transformed by
>the villagers into a canopied road, which facilitated access to the village
>and its population.
>
>The date of the city's construction, its function and the characteristics of
>its population are still unknown due to the newness of the discovery.
>
>Judging by the evidence found, Lopez considers it was a journey point for
>both elite class and the general population.
>
>This conclusion is based on the two plazas in the site and because there was
>no section of habitable area.
>
>El Pajaral includes complex altars, common to ceremonies or places of power.
>AJS/CCS
>
>
>CENTRAL AMERICA: FIRST RAINY SEASON DAMAGE REPORTED
>
>Panama, May 17 (PL) Floods and injures in about 90 houses in Guatemala,
>evacuation of 500 people in Nicaragua and a hundred in Honduras, and the
>death of one person in Panama, are the current rainy season damages in
>Central America to date.
>
>According to the Disaster Reduction National Coordinator (CONRED)
>spokesperson, Marleny Moscoso, the most damaged regions were North and East
>Guatemala, where half a million lives are in danger from flood risk.
>
>CONRED said that last year rains caused 10 deaths, 14 injuries, one person
>disappeared, about 1,600 houses damaged, and 240 destroyed, affecting 1,500
>more in Guatemala.
>
>In Panama, a heavy rain fell on the capital Monday, causing floods,
>landslides and tree-falls on some city sectors, and a 43- year-old person
>drowned when the flooding river dragged him.
>
>According to the National Civil Protection System, the floods when it rains
>are caused by garbage trapped in the gutters.
>
>In Managua, Nicaragua's capital, Civil Defense started evacuating last night
>the first 500 inhabitants from the San Cristobal volcano slopes, as a
>preventive measure against possible avalanches because of the rain.
>
>Indigenous Sume and Miskito leaders said the Pankawas community,
>northeastern Wiwili, 420 km north of Managua, had hurricane winds and rains
>Saturday causing 500 indigenous to lose their houses.
>
>In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Contingency Permanent Commission announced it is
>preparing precautionary measures for the new rainy season, which obliged the
>evacuation of nearly a hundred persons Monday. FVS/CCS
>
>
>COLOMBIAN PEACE DIALOGUES ATTEMPTED
>BY LUIS ENRIQUE GONZALEZ
>
>BOGOTA, May 17 (PL) Colombia's President Andres Pastrana yesterday cancelled
>his next meeting with the guerrillas for supposed attempts to disrupt the
>peace dialogues by the murder of a woman in Chinquinquira, Boyaca
>department.
>
>The unfortunate woman's death was the pretext used with precision by top
>military forces with mass media cooperation in their ancient campaign to
>avoid turning over territories for reconciliation negotiations.
>
>Pastrana decided to postpone the international audience on illegal crops and
>environment based on data given by intelligence bodies and the Generals'
>League, Camilo Gomez, high peace commissioner, explicitly stated.
>
>The military accused Colombian revolutionary armed forces (FARC) of the
>crime when a woman died after an explosive device placed on her neck was
>activated.
>
>FARC promptly categorically denied participation of their men in the crime,
>and on the contrary condemned the barbaric act, in order to proceed with the
>plans discussed for over a year.
>
>Main guerrilla negotiator Raul Reyes, in San Vicente del Caguan, maintained
>the campaign is directed by enemies of the talks from headquarters in the
>Ministry of Defense, Army Central Command and other intelligence
>departments.
>
>According to FARC national office, they have no units in Chiquinquira
>region, and therefore have no relation with the crime.
>
>The high peace commissioner traveled to the South of the country today to
>inform insurgent leaders of the meeting's cancellation scheduled with
>representatives from Europe, the US and Canada.
>
>According to FARC, if president Pastrana decides to cancel negotiations, it
>will be his responsibility, because the rebels maintain the international
>meeting will be called with or without the government's presence.
>
>Generals and the Roman Catholic Church are already saying that tension is
>very high and the situation could explode at any time if the perpetrators
>remain unknown. The time is ripe for the accusation against the insurgent
>organization and the eventual rupture of the peace process. DIG/CCS
>
>
>NEW VENEZUELAN INTELLIGENCE UNIT TO BE CREATED
>
>CARACAS, May 17 (PL) Venezuela will create a new high level political
>intelligence body Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president affirmed yesterday from
>Merida, on his campaign trip through the country to promote his reelection
>May 28.
>
>The former Information, Security and Prevention Administration (DISIP) is to
>be eliminated, according to a law to be sent to the National Legislative
>Commission, the leader outlined.
>
>DISIP was, for a long time, an institution with mercenaries who murdered
>farmers and was accused of violating human rights in Vargas state right
>after last December's natural disaster, he recalled.
>
>For this reason, a new intelligence body, with a high strategic and
>political level will substitute for DISIP, he remarked.
>
>He used the occasion to reaffirm that events in Vargas will be "deeply"
>searched to identify and sanction the guilty. DIG/CCS
>
>
>BRAZIL PROPOSES LATIN AMERICAN FIGHT AGAINST RENAL INSUFFICIENCY
>
>RIO DE JANEIRO, May 17 (PL) The Brazilian Nephrology Society proposed today
>a Latin American medical force to fight the abrupt increase of serious renal
>insufficiency cases in the region.
>
>The proposal, presented to the 2nd Latin American Congress on Acute Renal
>Deficiency that began today, is to mobilize regional health professionals in
>emergencies such as floods or earthquakes, when the incidence of the disease
>-characterized by kidney dysfunction- increases.
>
>The organization's president, Mauricio Younes-Ibrahim, University of Rio de
>Janeiro Professor of Nephrology, explained the disease is associated with
>infections, the use of drugs and traumas. He used Rio de Janeiro as an
>example, when in 1996, due to massive flooding, 1,200 cases of leptospirosis
>were registered.
>
>Two or three days after the contamination the bacterium that caused
>leptospirosis inhibits the action of the key enzymes allowing kidneys to
>work properly, the professor clarified.
>
>Apart from the medical volunteer work, the international force would be
>supported by industry to provide the necessary equipment for patient
>dialysis he added.
>
>We want to organize a group similar to the one we already have in Europe,
>that also assists in Europe and Africa, said Professor Younes-Ibrahim, who
>recalled that during the earthquake in Turkey the force assisted 500 cases
>of renal insufficiency.
>
>In earthquakes and building collapses, the rubble compresses the muscles,
>causing them to free a mioglobine protein, which blocks renal activity.
>GM/CCS
>
>
>ARGENTINA: CURRENT RAINFALL IS THE WORST IN A CENTURY
>
>BUENOS AIRES, May 17 (PL) The heavy rainstorm affecting northern Argentina
>is the most important in the last 100 years, said Enrique Olivera, Buenos
>Aires mayor.
>
>The official pointed out this conclusion is based on the quantity of
>rainfall, the wind speed (120 kilometers per hour) and the increase of Plata
>River water levels, the highest in history.
>
>Last night, official sources reported more than 330 millimeters of rain has
>fallen in Buenos Aires this month. The record for a month was set with 336
>millimeters in May,1985.
>
>Although rain and wind speed have considerably decreased, Argentine
>authorities maintain the state of emergency and recommend the population
>obey precautionary measures.
>
>More than 50,000 people were evacuated in Buenos Aires province.
>
>The fury of the winds caused an increase in Plata River water level and high
>waters between 2 and 2.10 meters were forecast for today. Yesterday's rising
>caused some streams to overflow. AJS/CCS
>
>
>JULIA ROBERTS SUFFERS ACCIDENT AND FAN PURSUIT IN MEXICO
>
>Mexico, May 17 (PL) US movie star Julia Roberts had a car accident that only
>caused her a scare, when her vehicle got a flat while she was being driven
>to Real Catorce community, national press revealed today.
>
>Constantly pursued by local fans, Hollywood best-paid actress is in Real
>Catorce, in the central state of San Luis de Potosi, making the film "The
>Mexican", directed by Gore Verbinski and co-starring Brad Pitt.
>
>According to press, the van in which she was travelling suddenly broke-down,
>putting her life in danger when she arrived here on Sunday.
>
>Roberts and her crew decided to travel by car as she's afraid to fly in
>helicopters, but 100 kilometers before Real Catorce, the speeding vehicle
>got a flat tire, spun several times and slipped off the highway.
>
>"Pretty Woman's" leading lady went to Mexico on her private plane, is driven
>in latest model cars and is accompanied by eight security guards that look
>after her around the clock.
>
>Despite all this, "The Mexican's" star can't prevent local people from
>following her every step, as happened last night, when she decided to dine
>in a restaurant and was welcomed by a crowd roaring: Julia, Julia, Julia!
>Although the movie's details are kept top-secret, what is known is that it
>began US shooting in mid-February and depicts an end-of-the-19th -century
>Mexican mining town.
>
>Captivated by the project, Verbinski first got Brad Pitt's participation,
>and later, Julia's. These are two of the highest-paid actors, with rates up
>to $20 million a film.
>
>"The Mexican" is a thriller-comedy about a sweet criminal pressured by his
>girlfriend to look for another way to make a living.
>
>He then tries to commit his last robbery: an ancient Mexican pistol. FVS/CCS
>
>
>Sports:
>
>SANTIAGO ON POINT OF BECOMING CUBAN BASEBALL CHAMPS
>
>PINAR DEL RIO, CUBA, May 17 (PL) Santiago de Cuba is only one game away from
>regaining the title in the National Cuban Baseball Series after defeating
>Pinar del Rio (6-2) for the third consecutive time last night.
>
>First baseman Orestes Kindelan was the game hero, scoring five of the six
>runs battled in, two of them homeruns.
>
>Tonight, the teams will face-off again in Capitan San Luis Stadium and Pinar
>del Rio can only gain the Series' title if they win this game and three more
>consecutively.
>
>Score by Inning:
>
>................1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9...R...H...E
>Santiago........1..0..1..0..0..0..3..0..1...6..13...0
>Pinar del Rio...0..1..0..0..0..0..0..1..0...2...5...1
>
>Won:.......Alexis Rodriguez
>Lost:......Pedro Luis Lazo
>Saved:.....Alexis Pagan
>Homerun:...Orestes Kindelan
>
>
>AJS/CCS
>
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