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Railway
with 4 years of losses.
The
rail system needs constant maintenance,
requiring an additional 1.900 Million
colones to expand service. It is now only
being used only to transport banana and on
Sundays to ferry tourists between San Jose
and Puntarenas.
[Foto: Marios Rojas / LA NACIÓN]
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updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
An Average of
Three Deported Every Day
According
to figures released by the Dirección
General de Migración y Extranjería del
Ministerio de Seguridad Pública., every 24
hours 3 foreigners are deported from Costa
Rica and 107 are refused entry at the
various entry ports.>more
Costa
Rica Main Destination for the Sexual
Exploitation of Women; Report
A
Mexican publication indicates that Costa
Rica is the final destination for a Latin
American network dedicated the sexual
exploitation of women of ages between 12 and
17 years.>more
Ecuadorean
Refugees Head for Home
A group of Ecuadorean refugees that had been rescued after four days adrift at sea left Costa Rica on Saturday for home aboard an Ecuadorean Navy ship, the Costa Rican Coast Guard reported.
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Family of
Murdered Man Says Foreign Affairs Failing Canadians
Overseas
The family of a New Brunswick man murdered in Costa Rica says Canada's Foreign Affairs Department should take lessons from countries like China when it comes to helping citizens in foreign lands.>more
21 Leaders
Prize Ibero-American Summit's Bilaterals
Leaders of Latin America, Spain and Portugal worked as hard on bilateral meetings as they did on the wider agenda of their two-day summit: trade, discrimination and UN reform.
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Colombia explosions leave one dead, 72 injured
Grenade explosions hit two bars in a popular Bogota nightclub district late Saturday night, leaving 72 people injured, one woman dead, police said Sunday.
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Attacks against US forces in Iraq endanger Bush's re-election
The re-election process of US President George W. Bush is being endangered by repeated attacks against US forces deployed in Iraq, a US expert on Arab issues told Costa Rica's newspaper National on Sunday.
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UN officials condemn
bombing in Turkey
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
Annan condemned Saturday the terrorist attacks on
two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: CENTRAL AMERICA
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Corridor of Hope for the Great Green
Macaw
Two biological corridors that
meet at the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border
are among the last hopes for the
survival of the great green macaw in one
of its most important Central American
habitats.
This endangered bird is emblematic of
the broader effort aimed at saving
crucial ecosystems throughout the
Mesoamerican region, extending from
southern Mexico through Panama. >more
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COLUMNISTS:
HANK
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Home
For The Holidays?
For almost a week now, Osvaldo Villalobos is once again enjoying
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surroundings other than those of a prison cell or hospital room.
The younger brother of the Steward of our Money has returned home, albeit not his old and public one, but a home none the less with only access given to relatives, close friends and of course inspecting agents from the government who swing by unannounced for a boca and to make sure their man is staying put.
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