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updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
Immigration
Gets Tough
Immigration director, Marco Badilla, has said
that Costa Rica is changing it's policy from
'open doors' to 'selective acceptance'.
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62 New Weekly
Flights
This year, the airlines
connecting Costa Rica to the world increased their
weekly flights by 65, according to the Costa Rican
Board of Tourism (ICT in Spanish).
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Exodus to
Nicaragua Begins
Beginning last Friday, most Nicaraguans
started heading north for the holidays. The
lines for a bus at the Coca-Cola stations was
long, most arriving in the early evening on
Friday waiting on the first of many buses that
would leave at 4am.
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Population Grows
Slowly
A United Nations study established that the
population of Costa Rica grows at about half
the average rate of the other Latin American
nations. The estimate is based on the
historical behavior of fertility and
projections compared elsewhere in Latin
America.
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U.S.
Expanding Free Trade Talks
The
Bush administration said Friday it hopes to
complete free trade talks with Australia,
Morocco and Costa Rica next month and add the
Dominican Republic by next spring to the
just-completed Central American Free Trade
Agreement.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: LATIN AMERICA |
Activists Predict Increase in Street
Vendors
Critics of the impact of free trade
agreements on Latin America, especially
the projected effects of the FTAA, say
the number of street vendors will
increase in the region's large cities.
Due to the inevitable flood of U.S. farm
products, which have a competitive edge
thanks to the huge government subsidies
shelled out to U.S. farmers, ''the most
likely scenario is an increase in street
vendors'' in the big cities of Latin
America and the Caribbean, said
Salvadoran economist César Villalona.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: FREE TRADE |
Growers
watch CAFTA
Proposed Central American Free Trade
Agreement still has opposition
Costa Rica rejected it. U.S. labor
unions and manufacturers are lining up
against it, and it faces a tough
ratification battle in Congress.
But if it comes to fruition in its
current form, the proposed Central
American Free Trade Agreement -- terms
of which were reached this week by the
Bush Administration and four countries
in that region -- could bring benefits
for Coachella Valley agricultural
growers.
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