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Costa
Ricans
Trapped
Inside
Panama
As
Protestors
Close
Off
Border
Road
Situation
worsens
as
protests
by
Panama's
indigenous
continues
The
situation
in
Panama
keeps
worsening
as
the
Inter
American
highway
of
San
Felix,
Chiriqui,
where
Ngobe
Bugle
indigenous
people
oppose
hydroelectric
and
mining
projects,
the
highway
remains
blocked
for
four
days
now
and
270
Costa
Ricans
are
trapped
on
the
Panamanian
side
of
the
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Traffic
Chief
and
Two
Others
At
The
MOPT
Suspended
César
Quirós,
the
director
de
Tránsito,
Gerardo
Aymerich,
head
of
administration
at
the
Ministerio
de
Obras
Publicas
y
Transportes
(MOPT)
and
Andrés
Bermúdez,
head
of
the
Dirección
General
de
Tránsito,
were
all
suspended
on
Thursday
following
Monday's
Tránsito
warehouse
theft
of
215
firearms.
January's
Consumer
Price
Index
Rose
0.17%
The
Instituto
Nacional
de
Estadística
y
Censos
(INEC)
-
national
institute
of
statistics
and
census
-
reports
that
the
Consumer
Price
Index
(Índice
de
Precios
al
Consumidor
-
IPC
- in
Spanish)
rose
0.17%
in
the
first
month
of
the
year,
as
compared
to
December
last.
Costa
Rica
Tops
Colombia
And
Brazil
in
Pirated
Software
If
you
bought
a
computer
in
Costa
Rica
lately
good
changes
that
is
included
pirated
software,
as
software
piracy
in
Costa
Rica
has
surpassed
that
of
Colombia
and
Brazil.
Horrific
Goalkeeping
Blunder
Mars
Costa
Rica's
Defeat
An
international
women's
football
goalkeeper
has
become
an
unwitting
global
star
for
all
the
wrong
reasons
after
her
agonizing
blunder
in
top-level
match.
Crowder
Ag
Students
To
Visit
Costa
Rica
Neosho,
Mo.
-
Jay
Wilkins,
chairman
of
the
Crowder
College
Agriculture
Department,
summed
up
his
feelings
about
his
students
visiting
other
countries.
“It
lets
them
see
things
they
cannot
see
here,”
he
said.
“The
trip
can
be a
life-changing
experience.”
Children
Without
Borders
Feb.
3
fund-raiser
in
Hingham
helps
Costa
Rican
children
Thousands
of
miles
away,
in
three
clinics
tucked
into
Costa
Rica's
landscape,
Duxbury
summer
resident
Dr.
George
Whitelaw's
vision
of
offering
free
healthcare
services
to
hundreds
of
children
continues
to
grow.
COLOMBIA
-
www.insidecolombia.net
Who
Will
Fill
the
Power
Void
in
Colombia's
Eastern
Plains?
A
power
void
has
emerged
in
Colombia's
Eastern
Plains,
where
guerrillas
and
paramilitaries
have
long
ruled
in
lawless
tracts
of
territory,
and
traffickers
fight
for
control
of
the
primary
exit
points
for
drug
shipments
headed
to
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