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The
participants to the Special Summit of the
Americas pose for a group photo at the end of
the two-day meeting in Monterrey, Mexico, Jan.
13, 2004. To the bottom far right sits Costa
Rican President Abel Pacheco.
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Identity Theft On the Rise
Identity theft has become a
big thing in Costa Rica over the past year. According to figures by the
Miniterio Publico and Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) - the Public
Ministtry is responsible for the judidical system and the OIJ for criminal
investigations - financial losses last year surpassed the 3.000 Million
Colones or $7.1 Million Dollars.
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Costa Rica A Favorite Travel Destination
... According to Michael Kaye, an American expatriate who helped pioneer
ecotourism in Costa Rica in 1978 with his company, Costa Rica Expeditions:
"When we started, there were probably 100,000 to 150,000 visitors to Costa
Rica. The latest estimates are over "a million" a year.
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El Salvador: Girls Working as Domestics Face Abuses
Tens of thousands of girls in El Salvador work as domestics, a form of labor
that makes them particularly vulnerable to physical abuse and sexual
harassment, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today.
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Venezuelan government to investigate
threats against embassies of US, Britain, Spain
The Venezuelan government would
investigate the possible threats of attacks against the embassies of Spain,
Britain and the United States in the country, Vice President Jose Rangel
said Saturday.
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Colombia is safe from bird flu
Colombia is safe from the
bird flu virus, Alvaro Abisambra, Director of the Colombian Agricultural
Institute, said Saturday.
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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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Sand and Sea to
Spare in Costa Rica
THE Nicoya Peninsula juts off Costa Rica
into the Pacific Ocean like a misshapen
ear. It is rugged terrain, formed by the
string of volcanoes inland. Other than a
few large beach resorts in the far
north, Nicoya's coastline has missed
much of the development that has spread
across the country.
In a search for an affordable, relaxed
beach vacation, I first visited Nicoya
in January 2002, traveling to Montezuma,
a small town on the bottom tip of the
peninsula, and returned last year. Once
an active fishing village, Montezuma has
developed a reputation as a backpacker
haven, a beachside Katmandu.
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The Jeff Corwin
Experience - Costa Rica...
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Attention! New
Scam.
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Here's a new scam. Actually, it
is an old scam, with a new
twist. Authorize.net is
one of the foremost credit card
processor of online
transactions. |
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To be more exact, they are a gateway
- an intermediary system between the
bank, the customer (seller of goods
and services over the internet) and
the user - you, the person who takes
out his/her credit card and enter
all those little digits that amount
to Billions of Dollars or
transactions each year.
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HEALTH-BRAZIL:
Bartering Is Best Medicine in AIDS Fight
Obtaining a 77 percent discount
and still complaining might seem an unreasonable response in just about any
market, but not in Brazil when it comes to buying medicines needed to provide
free treatment to people with HIV/AIDS.
That deep discount is given by the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dhome,
subsidiary of the U.S.-based Merck consortium, for the Brazilian Ministry of
Health's purchases of efavirenz, an antiretroviral drug.
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