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Villalobos
Investors to Meet Today!
The UCCR has called on all Villalobos
investors to meet today, Sunday, at the
Hotel Aurola Holiday Inn, downtown San
José, to listen to what their attorney,
José Miguel Villalobos, has to say in
person. >more
New Orleans to be site of CAFTA talks
New Orleans will host the 6th round of the
U.S .- Central American Free Trade Agreement negotiations from July 28 to Aug. 2.
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Europe
Gives the Central Valley a Helping Hand
The European Commission will be donating 11
Million Euros or more than 5.000 Million
Colones to the improvement of the urban
system of the Central Valley, it was
announced this past Friday. >more
Seagoing
Drug Warehouse
The
finding of 1,300 kilos (2,826 pounds) of
cocaine aboard a Colombian fishing boat this
week, made it evident that drug-traffickers
are changing their strategy and are using
such vessels as floating warehouses. >more
Costa
Rica - Canada on July 12
In
Foxboro, Massachusetts, the national soccer
teams of Costa Rica and Canada will play
their first match in the 2002 CONCACAF Gold
Cup on July 12. >more
Colombian vice president unharmed in grenade explosion
An accidental explosion of a grenade scared Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos on Saturday, but did not cause any harm or damage, reports from Barranquilla said.
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Mexican extradites murderer to US
Mexico extradited a murderer, who was accused of killing a US citizen, to the United States on Saturday, the Attorney General's office said.
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Helicopter crash kills 5 in Brazil
A helicopter from Brazil's state-run petroleum company Petrobras crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, leaving at least five people dead, Brazil's television network TV Globo reported.
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One killed, four wounded in explosions in Chechnya
One person was killed and four others suffered injuries in two bomb explosions Sunday in Chechnya's capital city of Grozny, Interfax reported.
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Britain to introduce ID cards for people over 16
The British government has decided that everybody in Britain over the age of 16 will have to buy an identity card priced at nearly 40 pounds (about 65 US dollars), The Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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FRAUD
OUTRUNS THE FEDS
Alma Carney put her savings in a Miami
investment firm after an aunt convinced her
that it was safe, and that she would get a 30
percent return each year.
The nurse's aide from Fort Lauderdale was
counting on profits from her $10,000
investment for a down payment on a home on
Florida's Gulf coast, where she hoped to bring
her children and grandchildren from Jamaica to
live.
Instead, she, her aunt and more than 2,000
other investors in Florida and the Caribbean
were bilked out of at least $31 million in an
alleged giant fraud scheme, said federal
regulators who shut down the company in
December. >more
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FTAA
Well on Its Way, Despite Rhetoric to the
Contrary
While
Brazil is leading the rhetoric on the need for
South America to negotiate the Free Trade Area
of the Americas (FTAA) as a bloc, which could
convince Washington to make a few concessions,
the countries have actually already reached
agreement on 80 percent of the draft accord.
Since the last round of FTAA negotiations got
under way in March, Brazilian President Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva has made frequent
references to the future free trade area, and
to the agreements he is seeking with
Brazil’s South American neighbours. >more
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