Happy New Year!
- ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
We're back with another
exciting year ahead of
us with a new look and lot's enthusiasm. Over the next few days we will be
completing the updates to our site, bringing you more features and
content that will inform and entertain. We hope you like 'your' new
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A Week
of Long Lines!
Everyone it seems waited for after the
holidays to pay their utility and telephone
bills. Longs lines could be seen all over San
Jose at ICE, Fuerza y Luz, A&A and many
supermarkets. Some had to wait more than an
hour in line.
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Lower devaluation in 2004
The economic stability
achieved in 2003 and a positive international economic outlook for this year
are likely to prompt the Central Bank to lower the rate of devaluation of
the colon vs. the U.S. dollar, in the coming months.
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Promotion of tourism
This year, the funds allocated for the promotion of Costa Rica as a tourist
destination will decrease by 26 percent as compared to the amount spent last
year, according to Costa Rican Board of Tourism (ICT in Spanish).
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Illegal telephone networks
Illegal networks that operate
from offices throughout San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, handle 25
percent of the telephone calls from the United States and a percentage - not
yet well assessed - of the calls coming from elsewhere in the world.
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Putting the Sex Trade on Notice
Around the world, about one
million women and children are seduced into leaving their homelands every
year and forced into prostitution or menial work in other countries.
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18 Colombians die in attacks blamed on guerrillas
Eighteen people were
killed Thursdayin three separate attacks blamed on guerrillas across
Colombia, local media reported.
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Diplomatic row between Argentina, US over Cuba ties
worsens
A diplomatic row between
Argentina and the United States over Buenos Aires's ties with Cuba has
worsened, with President Nestor Kirchner vowing to bring up the issue at a
meeting with his US counterpart George W. Bush next week.
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Colombian legislators call US migration plan
"political opportunism
Colombian parliamentarians
Thursday described the migration proposal by US President George W. Bush as
"political opportunism", aimed only at seeking votes for his re-election
from the Hispanic community living in the United States.
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Peru praises DPRK's willingness to freeze nuclear
program
Peru is satisfied with the
decision of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to stop nuclear
activities, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement on
Thursday.
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Hello Friends!
As this year comes to a close,
I want to tell you about a recent message from Enrique. |
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RETIREMENT: Another NEAT EXPAT
I am constantly amazed at the
diversity of backgrounds of people who
have chosen to live here. Most of us
come from climates that are too cold in
winter and too hot in summer.
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The
simple pleasures
of Tamarindo
Despite its popularity, the Pacific
Coast town has yet to be overrun by
high-rise hotels and rampant
commercialism.
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Mexican Immigrants Reject
Bush's Guest-Worker Plan
Groups of Mexican immigrants in the United States
say it is unlikely that the immigration policy
reform proposal presented by the U.S. government,
which would issue temporary work visas, will make it
through Congress. But they are anything but sad
about that.
''The proposal as its stands is heading for failure,
but that would be for the best, because it does not
resolve the immigration problem,'' Mexican activist
Lucas Benítez, the head of the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers in the U.S. state of Florida and
the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy human rights
prize in 2003, said in a telephone conversation with
IPS.
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BOLIVIA:
“We, the indigenous people…
are retaking power”
LATINAMERICA PRESS contributor Benjamin Dangl
interviewed political leader Evo Morales a month
after Bolivia’s “gas war,” a massive social uprising
against plans to export Bolivia’s natural gas to the
United States through a Chilean port.
Instead of selling natural gas to the United States,
protesters demanded that the resource be
nationalized to benefit the neediest sectors of
Bolivian society.
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