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Bridge Dweller Is Back
For Olman Jimenéz Solís living under a bridge is a way of life. Olman was evicted from his first home under the river bridge on the autopista Próspero Fernández in December 2007. He is back!
 
 
Passion Fruit And Viagra:
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Food Technology students in Colombia announced Tuesday their discovery of a delicious new dessert recipe based on a combination between passion fruit and Viagra.

2.2 Tonnes Of Cocaine Seized In Costa Rica
Costa Rican police seized over 2.2 tonnes of cocaine in San Francisco de Dos Rios, in the southern suburbs of the capital, San José. The drugs were found late Wednesday in a storage facility belonging to an international drug gang that was shipping the load to the Mexico and United States in containers, officials said.
 

 

Costa Rica Coffee Growers Eye China Free Trade Deal
A planned trade deal between Costa Rica and China might bring a bounty to coffee growers in Costa Rica.



Dollar Recovers, Climbing ¢8 In One Single Day
After dropping steadily since Monday, dropping to ¢563.58 Wednesday.



The Race For Carbon Neutrality
Long heralded as a tiny country with a tenacious commitment to bettering the environment.



Family In Appeal To Find Missing Brit In Costa Rica
The family of a British man who went missing during a holiday to Costa Rica is appealing for help to trace him.



Costa Rica Goes In As Underdog vs. Uruguay

Costa Rica is hoping to use its role as underdog to upset Uruguay in the two-game World Cup playoffs and grab the last berth from the Americas in next year’s tournament in South Africa.
 
CENTRAL AMERICA
 
EL SALVADOR
Death Toll in El Salvador Floods Stands at 157
SAN SALVADOR – The official death toll from the floods caused by torrential rains last weekend stands at 157, with 14,166 people still in shelters, the emergency management office said Thursday.



PANAMA
Panama Denies U.S. Involvement In Four New Anti-Drug Bases
PANAMA  - The four aerial-maritime anti-drug bases to be established on the Pacific coast would be under full Panamanian sovereignty and have no U.S. involvement, a senior Panamanian official said Thursday.

 

HONDURAS
Honduras Crisis Expected to Last Indefinitely
TEGUCIGALPA - The crisis generated by the coup in Honduras will last a long time after the de facto regime failed to comply with the Tegucigalpa/San José agreement, warned local press on Thursday.


HONDURAS
Elections in Honduras to Deepen Crisis
TEGUCIGALPA - The elections in Honduras under the conditions the coup created will only deepen the political crisis, warned Rasel Tome, an advisor of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya.
 
LATIN AMERICA
 
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires “Picket-City”: 340 Street Protests Per Month
BUENOS AIRES - The numbers were released by Nueva Mayoría, a Spanish-Argentine political think-tank that has been recording all protests and pickets’ actions in Argentina which lately have multiplied escalating the intensity of social conflicts.



ARGENTINA
Metro Strike Strands a Million Argentine Commuters
BUENOS AIRES – Employees of the Buenos Aires metro went on strike Tuesday for the second time in a week, forcing a million commuters to find alternative transportation amid massive traffic jams in the Argentine capital.

 

BRAZIL
British Tourist Carrying 1,000 Live Spiders Arrested in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO – A British tourist carrying 1,000 live spiders was arrested at the Rio de Janeiro international airport when he tried to board a flight going overseas, Brazilian police said Thursday.



VENEZUELA
US Role Under Spotlight in Venezuela Crisis with Colombia
CARACAS -- A former Venezuelan defense and foreign minister warned Thursday that his country could face defeat in a war with neighboring Colombia, and he claimed the reason for this was that Washington would actively back Bogota in an armed clash with Caracas because of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's policy of declared hostility towards the United States.
 
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COLOMBIA: U.S. Aid Must Leverage Reforms, Rights Groups Urge
Defending human rights in Colombia – never an especially safe endeavour – has become even more dangerous lately, several NGO leaders and Colombian human rights defenders testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday.


 

 

 


 
   
   

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One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces

 
 


 
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So What Is 3G And Do You Really Need It?

By the end of the year, Costa Rica, by way of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) will join the rest of the world with the introduction of the 3rd generation, better known as 3G, cellular network. Although it will be new to Costa Rica, 3G has been around for a while, being commercially launched in May 2001 by NTT DoCoMo in Japan branded FOMA, on a pre-release of W-CDMA technology.

 

 
 

 

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