40
Corrupt Traffic
Officials Fired In The
Last Three Years
A total of 40 corrupt "tránsitos"
(traffic officials) have
been fired during the
current government
according to the
director of the Tránsito
police force, Germán
Marín, during an online
chat on
www.aldia.cr.
Walking On The Road To
Caldera Is "No-No"
According To The Road
Concessionaire
Walking on the road to
Caldera is a "no-no" as
one pedestrian found out
and took his story to
the most sold newspaper
in Costa Rica, Diario
Extra. José Picado said
he felt a foreigner in
his own country when
officials of the
Autopista del Sol toll
station at Escazú
refused him to cross on
foot.
Missing Student's Family and Friends
Establishe the Rescue Resource Fund
The Family and friends of David Gimelfarb
have established the Rescue Resource Fund in
support of agencies involved in a search and
rescue operation currently underway in Costa
Rica.
Health Insurers Jump On The Costa Rica
Medical Tourism Bandwagon
(Associated Press) Elizabeth Kunz left her
dentist's office this spring with a mouth
full of problems and no way to pay for them.
The South Carolina resident went out of her
way, literally, to find a solution, which
turned out to be in Central America. Her
trip to the tropics is part of a health
insurance experiment for trimming medical
costs: overseas care.
Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, Crowned
Miss Universe 20009
Sunday evening, during one of the year’s
most exciting live international television
events, a star-studded panel of judges chose
Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, as MISS
UNIVERSE® 2009 live from Atlantis, Paradise
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Venezuela's Stefania Fernandez was crowned Miss Universe 2009 last night. This is first time that one country has won two years running, win gives Venezuela its sixth Miss Universe title. Noticeably absent from the 15 finalists was one of the big favorites Miss Costa Rica, Jessica Umaña.
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Honduras Confines Venezuelan,
Argentine Diplomats To Embassies
Tegucigalpa - The interim
Honduras government has confined Venezuelan
and Argentine diplomats to their embassies
in the country and threatened to expel them
once they stepped out the gate, the Foreign
Ministry said on Saturday.
Nicaragua Becomes Illiteracy Free
Managua -
Nicaragua has become illiteracy-free after
reducing to 3.5 percent the number of
citizens who do not know how to read and
write, President Daniel Ortega has
announced.
Nicaragua Proclaims Education Anthem
Managua - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
issued a decree, establishing that the 1980
National Literacy Teaching Crusade Anthem
would become the Nicaraguan Education anthem
from now on.
Cuba Urges to Counter US Maneuver
Mexico - A Cuban Communist Party (PCC) delegation attending the 15th Sao Paulo Forum being held in Mexico urged participants to counter US maneuvers against achievement made by the Latin American left wing movement.
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ALBA is a New Age, Venezuelan Minister
La Paz - Venezuelan People's Power Education Minister Hector Navarro said the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our Americas (ALBA) is an age of relations among its nine member nations.
Fidel Castro, Correa Meet in Havana
Havana - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Friday met for several hours with the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in Havana, to discuss social projects under way in the two countries.
Bolivian Textiles to Brazil Market
La Paz -
Bolivian media on Sunday headlined Brazil''s
decision to import 21 million dollars in
textiles from Bolivia with no imports
tariffs.
Bus Crash Kills 19 in Peru
Lima - A total of 19
people died on Sunday after an inter-city
bus fell off a 50-meter ravine, the nation's
Highway Police told reporters on Sunday.
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HEALTH-ARGENTINA:
"Buddies" Ease
Transgenders'
Hospital Visits
1Keeping
a hospital
appointment in the
Argentine capital is
a far less fearsome
ordeal for
transgender persons,
a sector of the
population that
according to doctors
had "dramatic"
statistics of
illness, when they
are accompanied by
trained health
promoters who, like
them, have chosen a
different gender
identity.
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Rocking Time
Often when planning a trip,
you can do a little too much
of well – planning. Ruining
your vacation like pulp
ruins a glass of OJ. Its not
juice. Researching where to
stay and what beaches to
visit, you strip your
travels of any spontaneity
and uncertainty.
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Could Costa Rica
Overthrow Its President?
The
Honduran legislature
decided last week
decided that that the
president as unfit to
govern and Sunday
morning a group of
soldiers took Manuel
Zelaya by force and put
on a plane headed for
Costa Rica, in a coup
d'etat since the Cold
War. Zelaya said he was
kidnapped by Honduran
military officers, who
dragged him from his
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