travel news review


29 April '98
This week the government will commence rationing power by instituting a daily two hour blackout. The power company is unable to supply enough energy because of falling water levels at its two hydro-electric plants.

15 April '98
President Ernesto Perez Balladares has introduced an administrative reform bill to ensure that anyone who 'incites violent protest' against his government will be arrested, fined and jailed. The press and most likely everyone else is nervously awaiting the bill's passage through the legislature.