LatinNews Daily Report - 06 June 2012

POLITICS | New ministers in Costa Rica. On 5 June President Laura Chinchilla swore in a new minister of public works & transport (MOPT), Luis Llach Cordero, and a new minister of justice, Fernando Ferraro. Both men had been acting as interim ministers in replacement of Francisco Jiménez and Hernando París, who had quit in early May. Llach’s deputy is José Chacón Laurito, an MOPT veteran who is in charge of the works at the Moín containers’ port terminal; Ferraro’s deputy is Eugenio Polanco, who also serves as the director general of social adaptation (i.e. the prison system).

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