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With only days left before Christmas, shoppers crowd
the Boulevard (Avenida Central).
[Foto: insidecostarica.com]
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updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
Florida
Adoption Agency Accused of Buying Children
....The attorney, Cheryl R. Eisen
of Boca Raton, acknowledged this week that IAR
arranged for Guatemalan women who wanted to
give up their babies to come to Costa Rica and
stay at the house while the adoptions were
processed by private attorneys.
>complete story
CAFTA: Negotiations
in Washington
A careful U.S. strategy based on leaving for
the last minute the hottest issues of the Free
Trade Agreement with Central America (CAFTA)
in the most recent negotiations in Washington
prevented Costa Rica from accepting the terms
that the other Central American nations agreed
upon.
>more
CAFTA: Deal May
Hang on Single Vote in Congress
Regina Vargo, the lead US negotiator for the
Central American free trade agreement, was
unusually blunt last week.
>more
FTA with Europe
In Italy, Costa Rica took the first steps
leading to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with
the European Union.
>more
Saddam becomes top prisoner in US global
detention system, says report
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is now
prisoner No. 1 in what has developed into a
global detention system run by the Pentagon
and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuits
Microsoft and New York's attorney general
filed Thursday six lawsuits against several
e-mail marketers, which are allegedly
responsible for sending billions of spam
messages.
>more
Michael Jackson formally charged with child
molestation
A nine-count criminal complaint was formally
filed Thursday against US pop star Michael
Jackson for allegedly molesting a Los Angeles
boy and plied the young cancer patient with an
alcoholic beverage.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: TRADE |
U.S. Reaches Pact With Central American
Nations
The United States and four Central
American countries reached a so-called
free trade agreement (FTA) on Wednesday,
a deal critics say will cost U.S. jobs
and transfer wealth from the already
impoverished Latin nations to U.S.
corporations.
"Negotiations began last January, and
today we have fulfilled that vision with
a cutting edge, modern FTA designed to
tear down the tariff walls that block
trade between the United States and
Central America, between friends and
neighbours," said U.S. Trade
Representative Robert B. Zoellick.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: BRAZIL |
Children Look to Future Despite HIV/AIDS
”My
mother cried a lot and I didn't know
why. I was sad, but not upset. I got the
news and I took at as something bad, but
something normal. I didn't really
understand what it meant.”
This is how Ana (not her real name)
remembers her reaction to being told at
age 13 that she had AIDS. ”Later, I
understood it, I became more aware of
the problem, and sometimes I would get
depressed,” she says.
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