San
José, Costa Rica - Saturday 27 November 2004
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Home For
The Holidays
Slowly, one by one, the accused
in the Fischel-Caja scandal are
heading home for Christmas
holidays, with the news
yesterday that Corporación
Fischel president, Walter Reiche
Fischel, left the Unidad de
Admisión de San Rafael in
Alajuela after a six month stay
in the detention centre.
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Dall'Anese
Man of the Year
The Spanish language daily
newspaper La Nación has
chosen chief prosecutor, Fiscal
Dall’Anese, the person most in
the news for the year for his
role in the ICE-Alcatel and
Fischel-CCSS scandals that saw
two former presidents of Costa
Rica in preventive detention, as
well a score of other "high"
government officials and members
of high Costa Rican society, who
are either in preventive
detention, house arrest or on
bail.
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Virus-free
Costa Rica
The Ministry of Science and
Technology, with the backing of
several universities and private
companies, launched a campaign
aimed at preventing the
infection by viruses in
more
computers.
Space Shortage
on Freighters
Costa Rican
exporters are finding it
difficult to ship their
freighters.
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Ticos Travel
Abroad
The Immigration Service
admitted that it is straining under a heavy demand of new passports,
as an increasing number of Costa Ricans make ready to travel abroad
for the Christmas and New Year period.
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400 farmers displaced in
Colombia
At least 400 farmers on Friday
escaped from the northwest where government troops
launched an offensive against the rebel
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the
authorities said.
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Brazilian landless activists
surround central bank
Over 8,000 Brazilian landless
activists on Thursday surrounded the central bank,
threatening to grab more land next year unless they
get more public money to speed up land reform.
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Japan asks Peru for
understanding on Fujimori extradition
Japanese ambassador to Peru,
Yubun Narita, Friday asked for the Peruvian
understanding over the fact that to the moment his
country has not decided on the two
extradition petitions filed
against disgraced president Alberto Fujimori.
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RIGHTS-BRAZIL:
Focusing
on Men to Combat Violence
Against Women
Brazilian television viewers
witnessed an unusual scene on
Thursday: a soccer player
commits a foul, not against a
member of the other team, but
rather against one of his own
team-mates, and mayhem erupts on
the field. ”Wherever there's
violence, everyone loses,”
declares a voiceover.
This is just one of the TV spots
and print ads released in Brazil
today to mark the International
Day for the Elimination of
Violence Against Women. They are
the work of the Patricia Galvao
Institute, a non-governmental
organisation based in Sao Paulo
and devoted to raising public
awareness about women's rights.
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