Will
Figueres Return Today?
Today is the day. February 3rd.
A date on the calendar that many
are anxiously waiting for the
answer: will he or will won't
he. more
Former President Rodriguez
Pays Back Loans Over the past month or so we all
forgot about the two former
presidents - Miguel Ángel
Rodríguez and Rafael Ángel
Calderón - sitting in La Reforma
prison Alajuela as the Fiscalía
(Prosecutor's office) continues
the investigation into the
corruption scandals of the two "Ángels".
more
The Zurqui
Gives Up Two Bodies
The "Zurqui", the mountainous
area that separates the Central
Valley from the Atlantic region
is well known to Costa Ricans
for holding "skeletons". And
yesterday, it gave it up two of
them.more
Villalobos
Preliminary Hearing Underway
Tuesday February 1 was the first
day of preliminary hearings in
the Ofinter case, the Villalobos
or "the Brothers" operation
suspected of financial
irregularities.more
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Fidel
Castro: Cuba Will Never Return
to Capitalism
Cuban President Fidel Castro
said Cuban people prefer to die
under a sky they have built over
surviving a capitalist hell
proposed by the current United
States administration. more
Chinese
vice president meets leaders of
Caribbean countries
China hopes to further tighten
friendship and cooperation via
the China-Caribbean Economic and
Trade Cooperation Forum with the
Caribbean countries, said Vice
President Zeng Qinghong here
Wednesday.more
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REPORTS
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Reports from the Region
TRADE-EU:
Banana War
Looms Once Again
The European Union moved closer
to a trade war with Latin
America Monday when it formally
notified the World Trade
Organisation that it will triple
import tariffs on bananas next
year.
Under the proposals Latin
American countries will no
longer be limited by quotas but
will pay higher duties of 230
euros (290 dollars) per tonne of
bananas when the new regime
enters into force January 2006.
The current duty is 75 euros (97
dollars) a tonne.
The European Union's (EU)
announcement is likely to
trigger a request from Latin
America for the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) to step in to
head off a repeat of the bitter
1990s banana wars. The EU had to
overhaul its banana regime after
the trade body ruled in 1997
that EU preferential banana
import rules were
discriminatory. more
