61.   In the worst hit area -- Vargas state along the Caribbean coast -- hardship is now a way of life.

62.   It cut electricity on the Venezuelan resort island of Margarita, and was felt in Barcelona and Puerta la Cruz on the Caribbean coast in Sucre.

63.   Keith, which was downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm late Monday, hovered just off the Caribbean coast, pounding the capital of this small Central American nation.

64.   Major Hasbeth Cogollo Hernandez was ambushed by two gunmen Thursday afternoon in a busy shopping mall in Santa Marta, a city on the Caribbean coast.

65.   Major Hasbeth Cogollo Hernandez was shot in the back by two gunmen Thursday afternoon in a busy shopping mall in Santa Marta, a city on the Caribbean coast.

66.   Mexicans are increasingly being cut off from their own Caribbean coast.

67.   Mexico mobilized troops and emergency workers on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan peninsula.

68.   Other cities affected included Barcelona and Puerta la Cruz on the Caribbean coast in Sucre.

69.   President Ernesto Zedillo cut short a planned trip to the Caribbean coast and said he would fly to Puebla state to assess the damage.

70.   President Ernesto Zedillo canceled a planned trip to the Caribbean coast and said he would fly to Puebla state to assess the damage.