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Banco
Nacional Ups US Dollar Sell Rate By ˘5
The Banco Nacional (BN) yesterday opened
the dollar sell rate slightly more than
˘5 colones over the close on Tuesday,
moving the dollars/colones sell rate
from the ˘495.75 to ˘501 or ˘5.25
colones, slightly higher that the rate
increase of ˘4.75 colones set by the
Banco Central (Central Bank).
Palo Verde Forest Fire
Consumers Almost 2.000
Hectares
Almost 2.000 hectares
have been lost due to a
forest fire that
continues to rage in the
national park Palo Verde
in Guanacaste, than has
been burning since
Tuesday.
Latin American Leaders
Agree On Criticism Of US
Economic Policies
Speaking with one voice,
Latin American leaders
meeting in Managua,
Nicaragua, criticized
the United States and
its economic policies
towards Latin America.
Central American and
participating South
American countries
showed solidarity and
co-operation towards
combating the food
crisis.
Newest Hospital Opens in
Costa Rica to the Joy of
Expats in the Southern
Pacific
The ultra-modern 85,000
square foot Hospital De
Osa located in the town
of Cortez, in Puntarenas
is now open. The
hospital is the newest
in Costa Rica and
features multiple
treatment facilities
including a state of the
art emergency room, a
pediatrics wing, a
neurology center and an
obstetrics and
gynecology center.
Captive Macaws Now
Reproduce In The Wild in
Costa Rica
Endangered scarlet
macaws born in captivity
are reproducing in the
wild for the first time
on Costa Rica's southern
Pacific coast.
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Nicaragua: Losses Worth
Millions for Strike
Nicaragua's business
sector has reported
millions of dollars in
loss due to the
transportation strike
affecting the country in
the last three days.
90% Of Guatemalan
Transportation on Strike
At least 90 percent of
Guatemala is affected by
the heavy transportation
strike, which is on its
third day today.
13 Cocaine Labs
Destroyed In Colombia
Thirteen cocaine
processing laboratories
apparently belonging to
Colombia's Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FARC) have
been destroyed,
Colombian police said
Wednesday.
Colombia Says Meeting
With Ecuador Not
Arranged at Upcoming
Regional Summit
Colombian Ambassador to
Peru Alvaro Pava said
Wednesday said no
meeting with Ecuador,
which has broken off
ties with Colombia in
March, has been arranged
at the upcoming regional
summit.
Venezuela Proposes To
Create Oil-For-Food Fund
The Venezuelan
government proposed here
Wednesday that the Latin
American energy-rich
countries should create
an oil-for-food fund.
LATIN AMERICA:
South-South Cooperation
to Fight Child
Malnutrition
Cooperation between
Latin American
countries, which is
cheap, efficient and
horizontal, could
fast-track the fight
against child
malnutrition, Nils
Kastberg, the regional
director of the United
Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF), said at a
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