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Telenoticias
Director Threatened
"Solo los maricones hacen estas
cosas", Igancio Santos, director
of "Telenoticias" told a
Diario Extra reporter when the
Spanish language newspapers
received emails and voice
messages saying that the
Telenoticias director had
resigned.
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Iberoamérica Conference Starts
Friday
Anyone who has driven on the
highway between the airport and
San José will have noticed light
posts adorned with flags of the
different countries who will be
represented this week in the
Iberoamérica conference to be
held in San José.
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Former
Tránsito Director Speaks Out
Ignacio Sánchez, former director
of the Policía de Tránsito,
spoke out following his
resignation last week, a post he
held for more than 2 1/2 years. more
Wash Your
Window? Nah, Let's Change Them.
The Banco Central de Costa Rica
(BCCR) - the government
institution that regulates
banking and money policies -
announced that it will spend
us$581.648 dollars (¢261.471.600
colones) to replace the windows
on it's building in downtown San
José.
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Cuba
dollar tax comes into force
A
10% tax on the exchange of US
dollars has come into force in
Cuba. The measure was originally
planned for last Monday, but was
deferred for a week to allow
people to change their dollar
reserves into Cuban pesos.
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Peruvian
police seize 880 kg of cocaine
Peruvian police seized more than
880 kg of cocaine and arrested
20 drug trafficking suspects in
Piura province in northern Peru
on Saturday, police said Sunday.
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Quake of
Magnitude Seven Hits Colombian
Atlantic Coast
An earthquake measuring seven on
the Richter scale struck ealry
Monday monring off the west
coast of Colombia, seismic
officials in the United States
and France said. more
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NICARAGUA:
In the Shadow of the
Caudillos
An anti-corruption drive makes
Nicaragua's president popular
abroad, but powerless at home,
and opens the way for a ghost
from the past
Besides the natural disasters
and civil wars typical of
Central America, Nicaragua has
also been cursed with a
spectacularly corrupt succession
of leaders.
From Anastasio Somoza senior, of
whom Franklin Roosevelt
reputedly said that “he may be a
son of bitch, but he's our son
of a bitch”, to his eponymous
son, who pocketed most of the
foreign aid that arrived after
an earthquake flattened the
capital in 1972 - the city
centre is still largely
grassland - to Arnoldo Alemán,
who was sentenced last year to
20 years in jail for corruption
and money-laundering, the
country's caudillos, or
strongmen, have contributed to
making Nicaragua the poorest
country in the isthmus.
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