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A
woman embraces Otton Solis,
presidential candidate for the
Partido Acción Cuidadana (PAC)
during a walk along the central
avenue in San José Tuesday.
Solís has a firm grip on third
place in the 2010 presidential
elections. Costa Rican will vote
on Sunday. [Foto: Juan Carlos
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All Due To
A Pothole
Two lives lost and the closure
for 24 hours of the
Interamericana norte at
Chomes, Puntarenas, was all due
to a pothole on the bridge over
the Lagarto river.
2010 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Chinchilla Leads,
Guevara Gains
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Laura
Chinchilla remains the frontrunner ahead of
this weekend’s presidential election in
Costa Rica but her main opponent is gaining
momentum, according to a poll by Demoscopía
published in Al Día. 45.1 per cent of
respondents would vote for the candidate of
the governing Liberal National Party (PLN)
in the upcoming ballot, down 1.5 points
since December.
Scientists 'Grow' Edible
Insects in Costa Rica
The day when restaurants will serve garlic
grasshoppers or beetle larva skewers is
getting closer in Costa Rica, where
scientists are "growing" insects for human
consumption. Entomologist Manuel Zumbado's
research into this alternative food source
is inspired by practices in Africa, where
insects have long been part of people's
diet.
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/ Central America
CENTRAL AMERICA
Avianca, Grupo Taca Close Merger
Colombia’s largest airline, Avianca, has merged with El Salvador’s Grupo Taca, The Wall Street Journal reports. Synergy Aerospace, which owns Avianca, Brazil’s Ocean Air and Ecuador’s AeroGal, will get 67% of the new merged airlines.
NICARAGUA
Nicaraguan Official Denies Purchase of TV Station
MANAGUA - Bayardo Arce, the top economic adviser of President Daniel Ortega, said on Tuesday that the Nicaraguan government "did not purchase" the private TV network Canal 8 (Telenica) as Rafael Paniagua, a Venezuelan official and general manager of Albanisa, said last week. Arce claimed that Paniagua "is crazy" and "spoke too much."
HONDURAS
Honduras Reinstates
Top Immigration Official, A Day After Firing
Him
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' new government has
reinstated its top immigration official, 24
hours after firing him, citing "a
misunderstanding and a mistake."
GUATEMALA
Guatemala Sends
Military Contingent To Haiti For
Reconstruction
GUATEMALA - Guatemala is dispatching the 8th
military contingent to Haiti for post-quake
recovery.
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/ Latin America
BRAZIL
Obama To Visit Brazil
In Mid 2010
BRASILIA - U.S. President Barack Obama will
pay an official visit to Brazil in the
middle of this year to expand U.S. relations
with Latin America, the Brazilian official
news agency Agencia Brasil said Tuesday.
ARGENTINA
Argentina Protests
British Plan For Oil Drilling In Falkland
Islands
BUENOS AIRES -
The Argentine Foreign Ministry lodged a
protest with Britain on Tuesday over the
European country's drilling plan in the
north of the disputed Falkland (Malvinas)
Islands.
BRAZIL
Deforestation in
Brazilian Amazonia Falls by 72.5 Percent
BRASILIA - Brazilian Amazonia lost 247
square kilometers of forest between October
and November of 2009, a reduction of 72.5
percent as compared to the same period in
2008, according to official figures.
VENEZUELA
Venezuela Probes Colombian
Paramilitary
CARACAS - Venezuelan authorities
are investigating into probable
ties in this country to deported
Colombian paramilitary leader
Oscar Ospino, said Minister of
Interior and Justice Tareck El
Aissami.
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/ Special Reports
RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: The Best-Kept
Secrets - the Military's
Human
rights groups are worried that
the declassification of military
archives dating from Guatemala's
1960-1996 civil war, which left
more than 200,000 victims, by a
special commission will not go
far enough in terms of
clarifying the atrocities. |
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Your Photos Could Be Product Placements
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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The Apple iPad
Steve Jobs, founder of
Apple this week
introduced the iPad, a
handheld tablet that is
a larger version of the
iPhone without the
telephony feature.
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