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Women Celebrated "International Women's Day";  Two Women Found Murdered
Hundreds of women celebrated 'International Women's Day' in San José's Parque Central;  ...Ironically, two women were murdered on International Women's day; a young lady of only 18 years of age was found on the roadside in Carrizal de Alajuela and the other found dead in her bathtub in San Joaquín de Flores. >more
 

Car Theft Ring Broken Up
Police, yesterday, were able to break a band of car thieves with the discovery of at least 8 vehicles in partial disassembly in a warehouse in Orotina, Alaljuela, west of San José.  >more

 

Is It Cold, Anyone?
Anyone who lives in Costa Rica can attest that the weather these past few weeks has been un-seasonal and unpredictable.  >more
 

Government to Decide if it Will Pay Harken
This week, the government has to make a decision on where it will pay or not the U.S. petroleum firm, Harken Energy, when Costa Rica cancelled Harken's concession to explore the Atlantic for oil. >more
 

Online Betting Sites Fight Cyberextortion
Online gambling sites are betting on tighter security after a recent wave of computer attacks from cyberextortionists plunged several into darkness. >more
 

American Arrested On Child Pornography
The police's special unit that deal with the sexual exploitation of Minors - Explotación Sexual de Seguridad Pública - report that they arrested over the weekend an American identified only as Rishfield. >more
 

Chile offers to mediate in Haitian conflict
The Chilean Vice Foreign MinisterCristian Barros is to visit Jamaica Monday to meet Jamaican Prime Minister Percival Patterson in a bid to help resolve Haiti's political conflict.  >more
 

CARICOM refuses to contribute to multinational force in Haiti
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) refused to contribute to the multinational peacekeeping force in Haiti, CARICOM's rotating president Jamaican Prime Minister Percival Patterson announced Monday.  >more
 

Mexico's PRD leaders facing expulsion as video scandal roils party
The leadership council of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) will announce next weekend if prominent party members will be expelled after a series of secretly-filmed videos ignited a corruption scandal that continues to take its toll on the party. >more


 

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"Passion" Box Office Gross Passes $200 Million Hurdle
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" grossed $53.2 million US dollars over the weekend, boosting the religious hit movie's two-week take from North America box office to $213.82 million dollars, according to final studio figures released Monday.
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Billfishing, Central American Style
Anyone who billfishes in the mid-Atlantic is keenly aware of the downsides of the game. You rise at 4 a.m., pound through rough seas getting to the Gulf Stream, might troll all day without raising a fish, then beat yourself silly going 60 or 80 miles home.

..."Ticos" is what locals call themselves. "Que rico!" is their favorite expression, used to celebrate the richness of life, nowhere more evident than 20 miles at sea where the bottom drops to unfathomable depths and sailfish and blue, black and striped marlin roam the warm, cobalt-hued waters.  >more



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CAFTA: A View From Central America
From the start of trade negotiations on January 8 of last year, through nine for-mal negotiating rounds that followed, and now as legislators begin to study the treaty’s final text, the proposed Central America-United States Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has divided the region. Thirteen months of negotiations concluded January 25, as the last of the Central American countries—Costa Rica—joined Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua as part of CAFTA.  >more


 

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