San
José, Costa Rica - Monday 13 December 2004
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Tonnes of
Garbage Left Behind by Festival
Goers
The Festival de la Luz Saturday
night brought a lot of happiness
and joy to thousands who lined
the streets of downtown San José
with spectacular displays,
marching bands and dancing.
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Pacheco's
Popularity Rebounds
A
report by the Spanish language
daily newspaper, La Nación,
referes to the last poll by the
Unimer firm that
shows that 45% of Costa Ricans
think President Abel Pacheco is
doing a good job or better,
while 31% says he is doing a
so-so job. 22% say be his doing
bad or worse.
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2006
Election Party Registration
Underway
The upcoming 2006 'presidential'
elections will be record for the
number of registered parties
according to the Tribunal
Supremo de Elecciones (TSE).
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Nicaraguans Head Home for the
Holidays
Thinking of spending the holiday
season in Nicaragua? Well,
consider this. According to
Marco Badilla, director of the
Dirección General de Migración y
Extranjería, some 70.000
Nicaraguans are expected to
overload the immigration
resources at Peñas Blancas and
the Daniel Oduber airport in
Liberia during the next several
weeks.
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Who'll Be
the Next Supreme Court Justice?
For Big Money, Bet on Kozinski
When it comes to picking the
next U.S. Supreme Court justice,
the safe thing would be to put
$100 on 4th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals Judge J. Michael
Luttig. But if you really want
to make some money, go with the
long shot, the 9th Circuit's
Alex Kozinski.
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Nicaraguan
President Blamed for Internal
Political Crisis
Nicaraguan president, Enrique
Bolaños, is responsible for the
current confrontation between
the country´s single-chamber
Congress and the executive
power, according to political
analyst Oscar Rene Vargas.
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Vietnam
and Cuba Sign Contract for
Building Expressway
Vietnam and Cuba signed a
contract through which the
Quality Couriers International (QCI)
enterprise will take part in the
construction of Ho Chi Minh
City-Trung Luong expressway.
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Brazil's
biggest party votes to leave
government
Brazil's biggest political party
voted Sunday to withdraw from
the coalition government, a
second political blow to
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva in as many days.
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WOMEN:
In Bed
with Bush for Four More Years
Four more years of President
George W. Bush in the White
House will pose a major obstacle
for efforts to promote sexual
and reproductive health in Latin
America, according to Monty
Eustace, the president of the
International Planned Parenthood
Federation/Western Hemisphere
Region (IPPF/WHR).
”The next four years are going
to be very difficult for the
United States and for Latin
America,” he told IPS.
Eustace was recently in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, to participate
in an IPPF/WHR-sponsored
symposium on the Millennium
Development Goals and sexual and
reproductive health in Latin
America and the Caribbean.
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