San José, Costa Rica -
Saturday 05 February 2005
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Alterra
and Government Advance On
Negotiations, But Slowly
Negotiations are slowly
advancing between Juan
Santamaría (San José) airport
concessionaire Alterra Partners
and Costa Rica's government to
resolve the former's US$18.7mn
claim for lost revenue.
 more
$25
Million Investment
The facilities of the Real
Intercontinental Hotel, in
Escazu, west of San José, will
be enhanced through a
$25-million investment, manager
Ramon Diago and Real Group
general director Fernando Poma
disclosed. more
Earthquake
Shakes the Southern Zone
A
4.0 earthquake yesterday morning
at 5:29am was registered some 25
kilometres southeast of Paso
Canoas, at the Panama border.
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Environment: 18th in the World
Costa Rica placed 18th among the
world countries according to the
possibility of preserving
natural resources. more
Texas
Bank Robber Captured in Costa
Rica
Houston's KHOU television news
station reports that FBI agents
arrived in Costa Rica to bring
back a man who has now been
charged with a bank burglary in
Crystal Beach. more
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Uruguay
calls for single Latin American
nominee to WTO head
Uruguay called for a single
Latin American candidate to
compete for the post of
director-general of the World
Trade Organization (WTO), said
Uruguayan candidate Carlos Perez
del Castillo on Friday.
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Colombian
president postpones trips due to
illness
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
postponed his visits to
Venezuela and Europe due to an
ear infection, the president's
spokesman said on Friday.
more
Cuban
Foreign Minister Meets with
Brazilian President
Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister
Felipe Perez Roque rated his
meeting with Brazilian President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as
cordial, in the framework of the
2-day visit he concluded
Thursday to that country. more
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VENEZUELA:
Agrarian
Reform Reaches the Forest Edge
The Venezuelan agrarian reform
initiative of President Hugo
Chávez has a ''green'' Achilles
heel. What on the one hand seeks
to foment social justice and
food production, on the other
could hurt virgin forests that
are home to endangered species.
Since December, the regional
authorities, encouraged by
presidential decrees to attend
to the land demands of hundreds
of thousands of peasant farmers,
have ''intervened'' with
military backing in dozens of
large rural estates that hold
forests and savannah
floodplains. The aim, they say,
is to verify who own the lands
and what they are being used
for.
In the past few years, the
government has distributed
around two million hectares to
135,000 families, but there are
still another 400,000 families
waiting for a plot of land to
farm, agrarian leader Braulio
Alvarez told Tierramérica.
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