San José, Costa Rica -    Monday 25 October 2004

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Alajuela Gets It's New Hospital. Officially! President Abel Pacheco and Monseñor José Rafael Barquero, Alajuela's Bishop, inaugurated the new hospital that was 22 years in the making. The hospital has 310 beds and 8 operating rooms, serving some 700.000 residents. Click for larger image!

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Rodriguez Appeals to be Heard Tomorrow
Tomorrow may be a big day for former president Miguel Angel Rodríguez, who is under house arrest for the next six months, following his detention as he returned to Costa Rica after stepping down as Secretart General of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Alajuela Has It's New Hospital
Residents of Alajuela have been joyous the last week with the opening of the new hospital that has been 22 years in the waiting.

PUSC Party Needs to Re-Organize
Legislators and members of the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC) were surprised at the decision to incarcerate for nine months former president Rafael Angel Calderón.

Pedophile Gets 16 Years
Retired American dentist accused of drugging girls for sex at a beach house in Quepos was sentenced last Wednesday to 16 years prison.

Taiwan To Organize Trade Mission To Visit Latin America
The government of Taiwan is planning to organize a large-scale trade mission to visit Latin America early next year, Vice President Annette Lu said Sunday.

Colombia blows up 7,000 land mines
Colombia destroyed around 7,000 land mines on Sunday, in efforts to implement the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of antipersonnel mines, according to local reports.

Argentine woman rescued after 25 days in captivity
Argentine police on Saturday rescued a woman kidnapped 25 days ago, and three kidnappers were killed and five others arrested, media reports said.

Former Ecuadorian governor sentenced to 16 years in prison
A former governor of the Ecuadorian province of Manabi has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for drug trafficking, local media reported Saturday.

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LITERATURE: García Márquez Gives Another Twist to Love ”Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, a new novel by Colombian Nobel Literature Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez that is scheduled for release in Spanish on Oct. 20, is an untold page in the life of Florentino Ariza, the central character in ”Love in the Time of Cholera”, which was published in 1985. The new novel, his first in over a decade, ”is another face and a different aspect of the same character. It is the other face of life, that 'Love in the Time of Cholera' does not talk about,” another prize-winning Colombian writer, Alvaro Mutis, told IPS from Mexico. It took García Márquez -- who is fondly known as ”Gabo” by his readers -- over three years to write his latest work of fiction. He finished three months ago and, as per his custom, sent the draft to Mutis, one of his closest friends. (Both writers live in Mexico City).

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