San José, Costa Rica -
Sunday 06 February 2005
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Puntarenas Festival Today!
Puntarenas is the largest
province in Costa Rica and each
year this port town hosts, what
is perhaps the best Carnaval,
with music, dancing and girls in
bikinis.
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President Conditions FTA
The President of Costa Rica Abel
Pacheco insisted that he will
not submit the Free Trade
Agreement between Central
America and the United States to
the Legislative Assembly, even
though El Salvador has already
ratified the FTA and other
nations are in the process of
doing so.
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Inflation Rocketed
Consumer prices increased 1.96
percent in January. This means
that almost one third of the
wage increase that benefits
workers since last month - 6
percent - is already gone.
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Coalition for 2006
Independent persons and
political parties - both
registered or in the process of
doing so - are talking on the
possibility of establishing a
coalition for the February 2006
presidential election.
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Rains Hit
Banana Crop
The
damage caused by recent heavy
rains and floods in the banana
plantations on the Costa Rican
Caribbean will prevent the
country from exporting some 2
million boxes of the fruit.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Colombian
military denies guerrilla
infiltration in naval base
The Colombian military on
Saturday denied a newspaper
report that guerrillas
infiltrated in a naval base and
launched an attack from within.
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South African Minister of
Defense Presents Book in Cuba
South African Minister of
Defense Ronnie Kasrils presented
his book called “Armed but
Dangerous” Friday in the 14th
International Book Fair of
Havana, an event celebrated here
up to February 13.
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Mexican Parties Get Ready for
First Elections in 2005
Political parties in Mexico are
getting ready for the February
elections to select the
government of three federal
states. more
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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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