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Thursday  29 January  2004

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Costa Rica Leads Software Development in Latin America
The Foreign Trade Corporation of Costa Rica (PROCOMER), The Chamber of Software Producers of Costa Rica (CAPROSOFT) and the Support Program for Software Competitiveness of Costa Rica (PROSOFTWARE) are hosting the First Annual International Information and Communication Technology Summit, Software Insight 2004, in San Jose today, January 28, through January 30, 2004. >more

Costa Rica to Open Wireless Market in 2007
The Telecommunications Industry Association praised U.S. President Bush administration officials for securing trade commitments from Costa Rica to open wireless and tech sectors to competition in the country.  >more

Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company Opens in Costa Rica to Help Farmers Improve Their Coffee Quality
Reinforcing its leadership role in the specialty coffee industry, Starbucks Coffee Company today announced the opening of Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company in San José.  >more

'TV Defense' Killer Leaving Prison Early
Twenty-seven years after claiming "television intoxication" led him to murder his elderly neighbor for Disney World spending money, Ronny Zamora will be able to walk out of a Florida prison as a free man in June.  >more

Liberia Airport Ready
The renovation to the Liberia airport - officially named, Aeropuerto Daniel Oduber -  located in the Northwest area of Costa Rica, which will provide visitors quick and easy access to all the Guanacaste beaches, are complete. >more

.World Bank Forgives Nicaragua's Debt
On January 22 the World Bank officially notified Nicaraguan finance minister Eduardo Montealegre that it was forgiving the country’s debt. >more

Bolivian Labor Federation Calls Strike
Bolivia's largest labor federation has called a nationwide strike for next month to protest government policies and demand the closure of Congress. >more

Court Ruling In Casa Alianza Director Case To Be Made This Friday
“For more than 20 years I have dedicated my life to defending children’s rights. If I have to loose my freedom because of this, it would be a shame, but that’s life. I have not lied and I continue to insist that what I said was true. >more

Mexico Accepts Peace Corps for First Time
Mexico has broken a decades-old tradition of rejecting U.S. aid workers, granting permission for the first group of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers ever to work here.  >more

 

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TODAY IN HISTORY
JANUARY 29, 1956
Colombia Bullfight Crowd
Insults Daughter of President

The crowd at a bullfight here in the Colombian capital insults María Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Díaz, daughter of President Gen. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla by applauding for opposition leader Alberto Lieras Camargo.  >more
 
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Quepos is a fairly good sized town with about 7,000 permanent residents, a large hospital, banks, markets, stores, hotels, bars, restaurants and main bus terminal.

Manuel Antonio to the south is much smaller and extends along both sides of the road that stretches 4 1/2 miles up the hill and them down to the Manuel Antonio National Park.  >more

 
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LATIN AMERICA:
Demands for Piece of Biodiversity Pie
The developing South needs more transfers of resources and technology from the industrialised North and an equal distribution of the benefits derived from biological wealth, according to the Latin American and Caribbean environmental officials meeting in the Argentine capital.

These are the points that the region's representatives will insist on -- as a united front -- at the 7th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 9-20.  >more

 

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