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Mono hulls are seen ahead of the
Transat Jacques Vabre sailing
race at the French harbor of Le
Havre, western France, Saturday.
The Transat Jacques Vabre
sailing transatlantic race from
Le Havre, to Puerto Limén, Costa
Rica begins today, Sunday,
Nov. 8.
[Foto:AP Photo/Jacques Brinon] |
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Jamaican
Criminals
In Costa
Rican
Since
2006
The
reign of
terror
by the
group of
Jamaicans
that
resulted
in a
shoot
out with
police
in
Escazú
last
week,
killing
one
Organismo
de
Investigación
Judicial
(OIJ)
agent,
began in
2006.
Arias: Honduras’ Coup Regime Blocking
Solution to Crisis
Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, said on
Saturday that Honduras’ de facto government
is to blame for the ongoing political crisis
stemming from President Mel Zelaya’s ouster
in a late June coup.
Sutel Investigates ICE For Abrupt Cuts of
Telephone Service
The Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel)
is investigating the practice of the
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) cutting telephone service immediately
following the due date to a number of
customers it considers "high risk", based on
a blacklist produced by the state telephone
company.
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CENTRAL AMERICA |
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LATIN AMERICA |
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VENEZUELA
Venezuela Minimizes Border Bridge Closure,
Calls It Only Temporary
CARACAS – The Venezuelan government
minimized the closure of the international
bridge that connects the Venezuelan city of
San Antonio del Tachira with the town of
Cucuta in Colombia, and said it was made
necessary by a protest of fuel smugglers,
but by the beginning of Saturday afternoon
the situation was “totally normalized.”
COLOMBIA
Clash Involving Two Colombian Families
Leaves Seven Dead
BOGOTA – At least seven people were killed
in a clash between two families in the
southwestern Colombian province of Nariño,
apparently the result of a dispute over the
sale of cattle, local authorities said
Saturday. |
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BRAZIL
Brazilian Missionaries Say Missing Teachers
Not Found Dead
SAO PAULO – The Catholic Church’s Indian
Missionary Council, or Cimi, issued a
statement Thursday retracting its earlier
report that two teachers abducted last week
were found dead in the southern Brazilian
state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
ECUADOR
President Correa Praises Research in the Amazon
QUITO - Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, congratulated young research engineers who work at the Center of Environment Technologies of Petroecuador in La Joya de los Sachas, in the Amazonic province of Orellana.
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HONDURAS: Unilateral
"Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said
Friday that the agreement reached last week
to solve the four-month crisis triggered by
a coup d'etat was "dead." The de facto
government led by Roberto Micheletti, which
took over after Zelaya was removed from his
home at gunpoint by the military and sent
into exile on Jun. 28, announced late
Thursday that he had formed a "government of
unity and reconciliation" without the
participation of the deposed president.
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Your Photos Could Be Product Placements
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces |
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Surfs Up
If you like surfing you will truly love and I mean L.O.V.E. Mal Pais, Costa Rica. Perched on the southwestern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula, this idyllic surf spot pulls wave seekers from across the globe. |
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• Legal
&
Wedding
Services
in
Guanacaste |
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AVG
Anti-Virus
Free
Edition
AVG Free
provides
the bare
necessities
when it
comes to
security,
but that
should
be
enough
for
savvy
Windows
users.
You'll
get a
combined
antivirus
and
antimalware
engine,
LinkScanner,
and
e-mail
scanning.
AVG Free
9
introduces
a few
new
features,
with
improvements
focused
on
performance,
including
claims
of
faster
scan and
boot
times.
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