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Today's
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The Annual Teletón continues, raising of
this morning more than
¢209.000.000
colones. Teletón workers were all over
downtown yesterday, as well as stage shows
were presented to attract donations. |
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| NEWS |
updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
President Pacheco Travels
to Miami
President Pacheco arrived in Miami yesterday
and is expected to stay until Thursday.
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An Attractive
Destination
The tourists
who choose Costa Rica for their vacation find a
place that, even though it is not the cheapest in
Central America, offers services and attractions at
affordable prices.
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Death in
Childbirth Remains High in Latin America
At least
two Latin American women died every hour last
year from complications during childbirth
caused by poverty and a lack of access to
proper health care, said a recently released
report.
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100 kg of cocaine
seized in Colombia
Colombian police have
seized 100 kg of cocaine hidden in a container
bound for Spain, anti-narcotics authorities
said on Saturday.
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Two major Canadian
opposition parties agree to merge
A new national political force in Canada has
taken shape Saturday as Canada's Progressive
Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance,
the country's major opposition party, voted
for merger.
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Over one million
Italians protest pension reforms in Rome
The unions which
organized Saturday the mass protest in Rome
against the government's pension reforms
claimed that over one million people flooded
in from all over the country to fill the
square in front of St. John Lateran Cathedral.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS:
MEXICO |
"Bring Our Children Home"
”Our children must come home, and not
keep dying in this absurd military
occupation,” says Mexican Fernando
Suárez, whose son, a U.S. citizen, was
killed in Iraq in the first days of the
war.
”I'm in Iraq to express support for the
people and to tell the soldiers from the
United States, and especially the
Latinos, to return home, to stop this
military madness,” Suárez said Wednesday
in a telephone interview with IPS.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS:
NICARAGUA |
Nicaragua
- "Violence
against women is an issue of power and control"
Interview with
Matilde Lindo of the Network of Women Against Violence
Over the last 10 years, Nicaragua has seen organized and
systematic activities to combat violence against women.
Particularly outstanding is the work of
consciousness-raising carried out by the Network of Women
Against Violence, whose actions are aimed at making public
and denouncing intra-family and sexual violence. Created
in 1992, the network is made up of 150 women representing
different groups nationwide as well as around 100
individuals.
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