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San José, Costa Rica -
Monday 21 February 2005 |
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Priest
Trial Begins; Sinaí Verdict
Expected Today
The courtroom at the Tribunales
de Alajuela will packed this
week with some 19 witnesses who
are to be called to give
testimony against Catholic
church priest, Enrique Delgado,
whose trial for sexual abuse of
minors begins today.
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Foreign
Minister Visits Israel
Costa Rica's Foreign Minister,
Roberto Tovar Faja, arrived in
Israel on February 20 for an
official visit, as a guest of
Deputy Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.
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Four Dead
in Traffic Accident in
Puntarenas
Transit officials and rescue
workers faced the gruesome task
of removing 4 bodies from a
fatal accident at 12:30am Sunday
morning 4 kilometers south of
Costa de Pájaros, Puntarenas,
when two vehicles collided.
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It's
Customary To Be Late
A poll by the Spanish language
daily newspaper La Nación
reveals that 74% consider the "impunctuality"
by Costa Ricans known as "la
hora tica" to be a sign of
disrespect, while 26% of the 500
respondents don't see it as a
bad thing. more
Lower
Trade Balance Deficit
Last year, the dollars
paid for goods and services
abroad surpassed those obtained
from exports by $890 million. more
Agreement
with European Union
Central America will ask the
European Union to start
negotiations for a Free Trade
Agreement between the two blocs
in May next year. more
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Relatives
of the Cuban Five to Attend
Rally in Nicaragua
Relatives of five Cubans
imprisoned in the US since 1998
for fighting terrorism are
joining Monday a rally marking
the 71st anniversary of the
murder of Nicaraguan patriot
Augusto Cesar Sandino.
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Colombia
and Venezuela Agree to Push
Bilateral Relations Ahead
Colombian Foreign Minister
Carolina Barco and her
Venezuelan counterpart Alí
Rodríguez have discussed
bilateral mechanisms to
strengthen cooperation and
agreed to begin meetings in
March on specific issues.
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Puerto
Ricans Called to Fight for
Independence
Puerto Rican citizens should
open their eyes and retake
national conscience, to reach
decolonization of the island and
independence from the US, said
New York"s El Diario/La Prensa
newspaper Sunday. more
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CORRUPTION:
An Evil
Eye Opens Up Again
The departure of a Panamanian
attorney-general has led to the
review of a massive
international money laundering
case.
Operation Malocchio ('evil eye')
as it was called, was "one of
the biggest" anti-money
laundering operations ever
launched in Italy, says former
prosecutor Giovanni Salvi who
was in charge of the
investigation together with his
colleague Pietro Saviotti and
investigating judge Otello
Lupacchini.
Investigation began in 1996 into
hundreds of millions of dollars
in proceeds from the smuggling
of 900kg cocaine out of Latin
America. By 1997 the network was
set to 'import' 5,000 kg of
cocaine and buy a bank in
Belize, according to a report by
Espresso magazine in Italy.
Operation Malocchio was launched
after Italian authorities
carried out "an information
exchange with the U.S. FBI,"
said a report issued in 2001 by
the anti-mafia investigative
unit (DIA) of the Italian
ministry of interior. The aim
was "dismantling a complex crime
group involved in the
trafficking of significant
consignments of cocaine coming
from South America, as well as
in money laundering and in the
re-investment of huge capital
through international financial
channels."
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