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San José, Costa Rica -
Saturday 12 February 2005 |
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Pacheco
Says He's OK, Will Continue
President Abel Pacheco pledged
Friday to serve out the last 15
months of his term despite
health problems, trying to
reassure the country a day after
he was hospitalized with heart
trouble.
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ICE Needs
the Ericsson Contract for GSM
Service
Will there be a new GSM cellular
service? And will it be this
year? or when? The Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) is adamant that the
Contraloría General de la
República - the Comptroller's
office - again review the
contract that ICE signed with
the Ericcson firm for 600.000
GSM lines.
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Long
Awaited Fisheries Law Passed
On
Thursday (Feb. 10) Costa Rican
legislators unanimously approved
a new national fisheries law.
The proposed law has been
debated since 1995, when parts
of an antiquated fisheries law
from 1948 were ruled
unconstitutional.
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La Nacíon
Unveils New Look
The Spanish language daily
newspaper La Nación, which forms
part of the Grupo Nación,
yesterday unveiled it's new look
following an investment of us$28
million in a new printing plant.
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Irish Eyes
Are Smiling in Costa Rica
Irish eyes were smiling after
round two of the Costa Rica Open
on the European Challenge Tour
as Belfast’s Michael Hoey moved
into a share of the lead,
closely followed by Athlone’s
Colm Moriarty after another day
of tough conditions at the
Cariari Country Club, west of
San José.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Fujimori's
party allowed to participate in
2006 presidential election
Si
Cumple," the party launched by
Peru's exiled former President
Alberto Fujimori in 2003, has
formally been allowed to
register at the National
Electoral Tribunal to
participate in the 2006
presidential election, said the
party's chief Friday.
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Venezuela
to buy Russian arms despite US
objections
Venezuelan Vice President Jose
Vicente Rangel announced on
Friday that Venezuela will go
ahead with its arms purchase
from Russia despite objections
from the United States. more
Argentine
prison riot ends with all
hostages freed
The prison riot in Argentina's
second largest city Cordoba
ended Friday about 23 hours
after 300 inmates seized the
top-security facility and held
at least 42 people hostage,
police said.
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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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