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San José, Costa Rica -
Sunday 13 February 2005 |
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Pacheco
Leaves Hospital, Back to Work on
Monday!
At
about 8:30 yesterday morning,
Costa Rica's First Lady, Leila
Rodríguez, left her home to join
her husband, President Abel
Pacheco as left hospital,
feeling "fine" after two days of
treatment for heart problems.
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Talking
Pen With a Tico Brain
The US maker of educational
materials Leap Frog Enterprises
announced the launching this
year of an electronic pen that
writes and "talks".
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Organic Crops
Some 6,000 Costa Rican
farmers partake in growing
certified organic produce.
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Positive
Outlook
With confidence boosted by the
increased sales recorded in
2004's last quarter, the Costa
Rican business sector is
moderately optimistic about its
performance this year. more
Lessons In
The Mud
On Monday (February 7), when the 2005
school term started in Costa
Rica, thousands of children
attended classes with their feet
in the mud, left by the heaviest
rains and floods experienced in
30 years just one month before
in the Costa Rican Caribbean.
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Cuban
president stresses role of
Chavez in Latin America
Cuban President Fidel Castro
Saturday highlighted the role of
his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo
Chavez, in Latin America and
denounced an alleged US plot to
assassinate Chavez.
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Colombian president conditions
dialogue with guerrillas
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
said Saturday that he will hold
a dialogue with the guerrillas
only when the insurgents stop
their hostilities.
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Venezuela
intensifies help for victims of
rains
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
on Saturday headed for the
flood-affected state of Miranda
to give instructions to
intensify assistance for victims
of the torrential rains and
landslides during the last week.
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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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