San
José, Costa Rica - Friday 17 December 2004
RECORD!
1.863
Average Daily Visitors in November. Click here for the
details!
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Outlook
for 2005 Not So Good
According to the experts at the
Cámara de Comercio (Chamber of
Commerce), the outlook for 2005
doesn't look to good.
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Special
Police Unit to Guard Embassies
The tragedy of last July at the
Chilean Embassy in San José,
where a member of the Fuerza
Publica who was posted outside
the Embassy, entered and shot
dead three embassy officials,
has prompted the Ministerio de
Seguridad Pública to create a
special force to guard the 81
embassies located in Costa Rica.
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Number of
Abstainers Increase
The number of registered voters
who are planning not to cast
their ballot in the February
2006 Presidential Election
increased from 21 percent last
July to a current 35 percent.
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Construction Increased
According to data from the Costa
Rican Association of Engineers
and Architects, the construction
sector as a whole increased by
31 percent the first 11 months
this year.
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Watch Your Card!
A
word of caution when using your
credit card in Costa Rica -
don't lose sight of it and
always review your statement for
all charges.
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Virus Alert!
"Happy holidays":
a good intention disguised as a
virus. Zafi.D sends itself out
in email messages that pass
themselves off as Christmas
greetings.
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Colombia
foils bomb attack on president
Colombian security forces on
Thursday foiled a car-bomb
attack attempt at President
Alvaro Uribe and arrested three
people of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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Cuba:
military drill Bastion 2004
enters second phase
The military drill named Bastion
2004 staged by the Cuban army
entered its second phase
Thursday to examine the speed
and cohesion of soldiers and the
responsibility of the command
and direct posts in face of a
possible air strike by foreign
forces.
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Former
Argentine president Menem to
return home
Former President of Argentina
Carlos Menem will return to his
country next Wednesday after
being granted immunity from
imprisonment, his nephew and
national congressman Adrian
Menem said here Thursday.
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$700 per month.
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One of
Every Five Children Suffers From
Hunger in Bolivia, Ecuador and
Peru
To
be poor and indigenous and live
in marginal sectors on city
edges or in rural zones in the
sierra and the altiplano is an
almost certain recipe for hunger
in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. In
the Andean subregion, one of
every five children suffers from
chronic malnutrition (low height
for age between 0-5 years),
according to a study presented
today by the Economic Commission
for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World
Food Programme (WFP) in Quito,
Ecuador.
The summary of the document
Hambre y desigualdad en los
países andinos (Hunger and
Inequality in Andean Countries)
reveals that 27% of the children
in Bolivia, 26% in Ecuador, 25%
in Peru and 14% in Colombia
suffer this scourge. The study
also found that conditions have
worsened in recent years.
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