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Street merchants unite to bring holiday cheer to
passersby. The scene was in front of the Hotel
Balmoral yesterday where Santa was handing out gifts
to children.
In the days before Christmas, merchants will be
presenting music, dance and other activities to
entertain crowds as they stroll along Avenida
Central, also known as the Boulevard.
[Foto: insidecostarica.com]
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Yellow Alert
for the Caribbean Zone
The
National Emergency Commission (CNE) has issued
a yellow alert for the Caribbean Zone due to
the heavy rains that fell since Wednesday
afternoon and Thursday morning. >more
$220 Million for
Roads Lost
During the last six
years, for every 100 colones paid for fuel and
for the circulation rights and destined to
fixing roads, the Ministry of Finance
allocated 35 colones to ends other than the
roads. >more
CAFTA: The
Coming Free Trade Fight
U.S.
labor leaders want to delay another effort by
the Bush administration to expand free trade -
and this time they think they can succeed.
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Puerto Rico is
a Major Player in Regional Trade
An
analysis of the trade of the U.S. with the 33
other participating countries in the proposed
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
indicates Puerto Rico is a significant factor.
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Informal APEC meeting
opens in Chile
Nearly 120 delegates
from the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum gathered at
the Chilean resort town of Vina del Mar for an
informal meeting on Thursday.
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Mexican president
says Chinese premier's visit will boost ties
Mexican President
Vicente Fox said here on Thursday that the
Mexican people are pleased to welcome Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao for an official visit to
their country and he believed Wen's visit will
boost relations between Mexico and China.
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New tower begins to
rise at ground zero in New York
The construction of the
first new tower building began Thursday at the
site of the destruction of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks after a ceremonial first
beam was installed for the new 7 World Trade
Center.
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REPORTS:
ARGENTINA |
Fight for identity
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo succeed in
restoring identity of 75 children of the
disappeared during the dictatorship.
Horacio Pietragalla Corti always knew he
was not the biological son of the couple
that raised him. Like some of the
children of the disappeared during the
last military dictatorship (1976-1983)
who were kidnapped and handed over to
other families, he had an intuition that
he was not the son of the parents who
had brought him up.
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