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San José, Costa Rica -
Tuesday 18 January 2005
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Brrr.. It's Cold!
Low temperatures, cloudy skies and strong winds that lifted
some roofs left Josefinos wearing jackets and coats,
especially as night fell.
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Red Alert Continues for the Atlantic
Zone
The red alert and the emergency
conditions continue in the Atlantic zone as the rain and
floods keep causing problems for residents of the Limón
area.
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Corrales Quits PLN
The Partido Liberación Nacional
(PLN) continues to lose another important member. Former
presidential candidate and three times Legislative Deputy,
José Miguel Corrales, announced his resignation from the
party yesterday, on the heels of the resignation by Mariano
Figueres, brother of former president José Maria Figueres
Olsen and son of founder of the PLN party, Don Pepe - José
Figueres Ferrer.
American Airlines Announces Great Low
Fares for Winter Travel
Nobody has more service
to Latin America than American Airlines, and now for a
limited time, American is offering savings to travel there
as big as its route network.
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Minnesota Benefactor Dies While
Snorkeling off Costa Rica
A Minnesota artist, philanthropist and wife of the former
CEO of Gold'n Plump Poultry died Sunday while snorkeling off
the coast of Costa Rica.
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Colombia
demobilizes over 800
paramilitaries
Over 800 paramilitaries of the
right-wing United Self-Defense
Forces of Colombia (AUC) are to
lay down their arms Tuesday as
part of the ongoing peace
process with the government of
Colombia.
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Clashes between FARC, AUC kill
at least 10 in Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) and the
United Self-Defense Forces of
Colombia (AUC) clashed on Monday
in the north of the country,
killing at least 10 people,
local media reported.
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Venezuela
Denounces Conspiracy against
South America Integration
Venezuela reiterated its
position on the controversy with
the Colombian government after
the kidnapping in Venezuela of
guerrilla leader Rodrigo Granda.
Venezuela said the incident is a
conspiracy against South
America´s integration.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Potato
Capital of the World Offers Up
New Recipe
Peru gave the world the potato,
and the potato now offers
indigenous people around the
world a new recipe for securing
their rights.
A new agreement between six
indigenous communities and the
International Potato Centre in
Cusco, Peru, heart of the old
Inca civilisation in the Andes
mountains of Latin America,
recognises the right of these
communities over the unique
potato strains that they have
developed and grown.
”No, this does not mean that
these communities will now
procure patents over these
varieties of potato,” Alejandro
Argumedo, associate director of
the Association for Nature and
Sustainable Development (ANDES),
a Cusco-based civil society
group led by indigenous peoples,
told IPS.
”These indigenous people are
against patents,” Argumedo
explained. ”They represent a
model of property that does not
fit into their worldview.
Indigenous people are used to
exchanging and sharing
information in open ways. But
this means a legal agreement
that no one else can claim
intellectual property rights
over their knowledge.”
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