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Rolando
Araya,
(standing)
former
presidential
candidate,
spoke
this
week at
the
Instituto
Mexicano
de
Cultura,
telling
his
audience
the need
to end
the
oligarchy
and
business
alliances
of the
international
business
that has
taken
over
Costa
Rica.
Araya is
allied
with the
emerging
party,
Partido
Alianza
Patriótica
(PAP),
after
failing
to win
the
presidential
elections
for the
PLN
party.
[Foto:Nuestro
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Costa Rica: Mud, Monkeys
And Macho Men
It was one of those
things I was glad to
have done, even if I did
watch most of it through
my fingers. It was
fiesta season in Santa
Cruz, Costa Rica, and
the whole town was out
in force to celebrate
its culture and its
cowboys.
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How I made
It: Ricky Thomas,
Founder of Petmeds
After a couple of years heading
the IT department at the
spread-betting firm IG, Ricky
Thomas felt burnt out and
decided to quit. He was on
holiday when he spotted a
business opportunity.
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Inside Tip:
Walking the Romeria
If you decide to make
the walk to Cartago, here a few basis common
sense recommendations.
Click here for
more tips |
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A
New Cold War in the
Caribbean?
Ever since the Monroe
Doctrine, the U.S. has
seen the Caribbean in
the way that the Romans
viewed the
Mediterranean: Mare
Nostrum, Our Sea.The bad
news: it ain't our sea
anymore, gringos.? |
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Saturday 30 August
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Legislative Commission
For Women Rejects
Maternity Leave Proposal
The Comisión Legislativa
de la Mujer (Legislative
Commission for Women)
voted against the draft
law to reduce
discrimination against
working women. That
proposed law was
introduced by legislator
Mario Quiros, of the
Movimiento Libertario.
Padre Minor Continues
With His Live Radio
Program From Jail
As expected, Catholic
priest Minor Calvo went
on the air yesterday
morning, continuing
broadcasting his radio
show on Radio Centro
from the San Sebastián
jail.
Nicaraguan Passes
Himself Off For 35 Years
As Costa Rican To
Collect Pension
It wasn't that Carlos
Pavón Ruiz, who lived in
Costa Rica for 35 years
under a false identity,
was ashamed of being a
Nicaraguan, he assumed
the identity of Miguel
Reyes Abarca, a Costa
Rican who had been taken
from Costa Rica to
Nicaragua as a child and
never came back, to
collect social security.
California Man Pleads
Guilty In Sexual Abuse
Of A Minor In Costa Rica
A 61-year-old Orinda,
California, real estate
executive and former
Saint Mary's College
professor pleaded guilty
Friday morning to
producing child
pornography in a case in
which he traveled to
Costa Rica to have sex
with a 12-year-old girl.
Costa Rica Second As
Home For Refugees
In proportion to its
population, Costa Rica
is in second place in
Latin America as the
country harboring the
most number of refugees.
Tabloid Ordered To
Compensate Legislator
The La Teja, Costa
Rica's version of a
supermarket tabloid
published by La Nación,
was ordered by the
Tribunal de Juicio del
Segundo Circuito
Judicial de San José, to
pay Bienvenido Venegas
Porras, a legislator for
the Partido Unidad
Social Cristiana (PUSC),
damages and costs.
Guatemala: Arrest in
PARLACEN Case
GUATEMALA - Guatemalan
security forces captured
former deputy Manuel de
Jesus Castillo, linked
with the murder of three
Salvadoran
representatives of the
Central American
Parliament (PARLACEN)
and their driver.
Colombian Authorities
Find Unknown Source Of
Money In Helicopter
BOGOTA - Colombian
authorities Friday
seized 1.3 million U.S.
dollars ferried by a
helicopter in a
"suspicious way" from
the southwestern city of
Cali to the midwestern
region.
Colombia: 11 Million
Fake Euros Seized
BOGOTA - A total
of 11 million forged
euros were seizured by
Colombian DIJIN (the
Judicial Police
Department), it was
known Friday.
Venezuela, Ecuador Sign
Energy Cooperation
Agreements
CARACAS - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez
and his Ecuadorian
counterpart Rafael
Correa Friday signed
five energy cooperation
agreements.
Cuban Leader Verifies
Preventive Actions To
Face Hurricane Threat
LA HABANA - Cuban leader
Raul Castro Friday
verified the preventive
actions taken in the
west of the country to
face the tropical storm
Gustav, which has a
possibility to become
the biggest hurricane
since the Katrina in
2005.
CUBA:
Shoring Up the
Educational System
In the new school year,
which begins next
Monday, Cuba’s
educational system will
be trying out several
changes aimed at
overcoming the decline
in the quality of
teaching, blamed on a
shortage of teachers and
other problems.
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30 August 2008 |
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