San José, Costa Rica -
Friday 04 February 2005
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Figueres
To Be Charged With Disobedience
February 3rd came and went as
any other day, but without the
appearance of former president
José María Figueres Olsen before
the Comisión de Ingreso y Gasto
Público del Congreso.
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Third Body
Found in Zurqui
Jorge Rovira, director of the
rescue operation for the Red
Cross, told news reporters,
"where there are two bodies,
there could be three.."
following the discovery on
Wednesday of two bodies in the "Zurqui", the mountainous
area that separates the Central
Valley from the Atlantic region
is well known to Costa Ricans
for holding "skeletons". more
Big
Traffic Weekend; Back to School
on Monday
The Transit Police and the Red
Cross are ready for the weekend.
This is the final weekend before
school starts on Monday and
Ticos are expected to visit the
beaches and other vacation spots
in masses. more
"Quack
Doc" Soon to be Extradited
Dean Faiello, the New York
"Quack Doc" is close to his
extradition back to the United
States since his arrest last
February. more
Workshop
in Costa Rica to Train
Journalists, Researchers
A training workshop in Costa
Rica aims to identify the impact
that research on health and
population issues has on
politics and decision-making. more
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Colombian
president postpones visit to
Venezuela
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
has postponed his planned
meeting with Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez in Caracas
from Thursday to Friday, a top
Venezuelan official said
Thursday.
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Venezuela
to look east for friends:
official
Venezuela is going to forge
closer relations with countries
particularly in Asia in view of
the multipolarization of the
world, said Vice Foreign
Minister WilliamIzarra on
Thursday.
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Colombian
paramilitary group names new
chief
The right-wing United
Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
(AUC) has appointed Ramon Isaza
as its new chief to replace
Salvatore Mancuso, it is
reported Thursday.
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VENEZUELA:
Agrarian
Reform Reaches the Forest Edge
The Venezuelan agrarian reform
initiative of President Hugo
Chávez has a ''green'' Achilles
heel. What on the one hand seeks
to foment social justice and
food production, on the other
could hurt virgin forests that
are home to endangered species.
Since December, the regional
authorities, encouraged by
presidential decrees to attend
to the land demands of hundreds
of thousands of peasant farmers,
have ''intervened'' with
military backing in dozens of
large rural estates that hold
forests and savannah
floodplains. The aim, they say,
is to verify who own the lands
and what they are being used
for.
In the past few years, the
government has distributed
around two million hectares to
135,000 families, but there are
still another 400,000 families
waiting for a plot of land to
farm, agrarian leader Braulio
Alvarez told Tierramérica.
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