San José, Costa Rica -
Friday 11 February 2005
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President
Pacheco Hospitalized For Heart
Problem
President Abel
Pacheco de la Esprella, who is
completed 71 years of age last
December, was in a stable
condition in the Calderon
Guardia hospital after being
admitted at 8:30 Thursday
morning. The President is in no
immediate danger, his office
said in a press release.
 more
TSE
Postpones E-Voting
Costa Rica's elections boar -
Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE)
- has put off using electronic
voting technology until at least
the municipal elections of
December 2006, the TSE said in a
statement.
more
Madam
Trial Judges Warn Media
The Spanish language daily
newspaper, Diario Extra, got a
stern warning by the court that
is trying Sinaí Monge, who is
accused of providing underage
prostitutes to key figures in
Costa Rica, not to publish the
names of the underage witnesses.
more
Stepfather
Who Sexually Abused His Four
Step-Daughters Arrested
Fear and threats were the
weapons of a 44 year old man who
abused his four step-daughters
in their Lomas del Rio in Pavas,
west of San José.
more
BUSINESS
IDB
Approves $16 Million Dollar Loan
to Costa Rica
The Inter-American Development
Bank today announced the
approval of a $16 million loan
to Costa Rica for the first
phase of a sustainable
development program in Atlantic
Huetar Region (RHA), a province
with potential for tourism and
production but also with high
levels of poverty and
vulnerability to natural
disasters.
more
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Record Attendance Expected at
Cuban Habano Festival
Leader of the
premium cigar world market,
Habanos S.A. will hold the 7th
International Habano Festival
from February 21 thru 25, with a
record attendance of almost one
thousand participants from 52
countries. more
Washington urged to remove
export limit on Cuba
Twenty US
senators have called on the Bush
Administration to remove
restrictions on agricultural
export to Cuba. more
Argentine prison riot kills 4
A six-hour prison riot in
Argentina left at least four
people dead and several others
injured on Thursday. more
Most Salvadorans oppose new
troops deployment in Iraq
Most Salvadorans are opposed
to an extension of the
country's troops deployment
in Iraq, an opinion poll
showed.
more
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CHILE:
Andean
Indigenous Carnival Comes to the
City
For the second year in a row,
the Chilean capital is hosting
an Andean Carnival held to pay
tribute to Mother Earth and
celebrate the ancestral
traditions of the indigenous
peoples of Peru, Bolivia,
Ecuador and northern Argentina
and Chile.
”We're holding the Andean
Carnival in Santiago as a way of
reviving the traditional
festivities of the indigenous
peoples in northern Chile, which
are gradually disappearing,”
Paulina Arce, the director of
the Identidad Indígena
(Indigenous Identity) magazine,
told IPS.
Arce is also one of the people
responsible for bringing these
traditionally rural celebrations
to the capital city. more
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