Chefs cook a giant pot of the typical Nicaraguan dish, Gallo pinto, in Managua, September 15, 2003. Fifteen cooks from area hotels and restaurants used 545 kilograms of rice and beans to prepare the
dish, in the hopes that visiting representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records will judge it to be the record pot of Gallo pinto, larger than the current record held by cooks in
Costa Rica.
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Strike in
Limon May Last Weeks
The strike, according to Union leaders will
continue until the Government sees that the
situation in Limon is not as it telling the
people. >more
Air Canada to offer flights to Costa Rica Air Canada is to offer flights from Israel to Costa Rica, via Toronto starting in December.
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Costa
Rica Coffee Merit Medal Presented to
Specialty Coffee Expert Mary Williams Starbucks
Coffee Company announced that Mary Williams,
former senior vice president of Coffee, was
presented with the Costa Rica Coffee Merit
Medal by the National Coffee Congress on
Friday. >more
WTO meeting results in 33 million US dollar loss to Cancun
The 5th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) resulted in a 33 million US dollar loss to Cancun, in the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Cancun Mayor Juan Garcia said on Wednesday.
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Internet forum to examine US blockade of Cuba
An Internet forum on the damage to Cuba by the four-decade-old economic blockade imposed by the United States will be held on Thursday with the participation of Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez.
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Spanish judge indicts Bin Laden for Sept. 11 attacks
Spain's top anti-terrorist judge, Baltasar Garzon, Wednesday indicted 35 people, including Osama bin Laden, for preparing in Spain the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on United States territory.
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Group
Outraged at Colombia Plan to Amnesty
Paramilitaries A
Colombian proposal to amnesty leaders of
right-wing paramilitary groups
responsible for some of the worst
massacres of the country's decades-long
civil war has been strongly assailed by
a major U.S. human-rights researcher. >more
