San
José, Costa Rica - Saturday 18 December 2004
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Constitutional Court Gives
Ericsson GSM Contract the Green
Light
When it was finally over for the
Ericsson company in Costa Rican
their contract to install
600.000 GSM lines, it appears
not. That's the word yesterday
from the Instituto Costarricense
de Electricidad (ICE), who can
now move ahead with finalizing
the contract.
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Anti-drug Efforts
Delegates from
law-enforcement agencies from
Colombia, Central America,
Mexico, and the United States
met at the city of Puntarenas,
on the Costa Rican Pacific, to
coordinate actions and
strategies to fight
drug-trafficking.
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More Women Unemployed
During the last year, more women
than men of the economically
active population were
unemployed. more
Calling
Nicaragua? No Answer? The
Problem Isn't Your Telephone.
Well, it seems the dispute
between the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) and the Telecomunicaciones
de Nicaragua (Enitel) is
still going on and as such
Enitel has blocked all incoming
calls from Costa Rica.
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Chang-Diaz
First Naturalized Astronaut
I grew up with a fairly strong
Asian upbringing,” said Franklin
Chang-Diaz of his childhood in
Costa Rica and Venezuela. “I’m
one-quarter Chinese and
three-quarters Costa
Rican/Spanish. My paternal
grandfather immigrated to Costa
Rica from Southern China -
Guangchow. I still have a large
number of family members there.”
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What's
Open During the Holidays?
The holiday season is upon us,
with most government offices
closing their doors until
January, while others staying
open for most of the coming week
and then closed well into the
second week of January.
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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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Chavez
proposes creation of South
American union
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
proposed here Friday the
creation of a union of nations
in South America and the
dissolution of the Common Market
of the South (Mercosur) and the
Andean Community (Ancom).
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Colombia
court sentences three IRA
suspects to 17 years
A Colombian court on Thursday
sentenced three suspected
members of the Irish Republican
Army (IRA) to 17 years in prison
and fined them a total of
426,000 US dollars for training
Colombian rebels.
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Cuba Reaffirms Conception of All
People´s War
Cubans will maintain their
conception of All People´s War
in the entire country on
Saturday and Sunday in view of a
possible anti-Cuban military
aggression after the reelection
of the US President George W.
Bush.
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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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