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San José, Costa Rica -
Tuesday 22 February 2005 |
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Sinaí:
Eight Years Jail for Pimping
Following two weeks of trial,
Tribunal Penal judges Johnny
Mejía Ávila, Ana Mary Hall
Cubero and Noldán Carrillo,
ordered Sinaí Monge Muños to
eight years of jail and to repay
one for the victims ¢5 million
colones (us$11.000 dollars), for
"proxenetismo agravado" - for
arranging underage girls to meet
clients and exchange sex for
money.  more
Court
Rejects Rodríguez Bid for Early
Release
The Juzgado Penal del Segundo
Circuito Judicial de San José
rejected a request by former
president Miguel Angel Rodríguez
(1998-2002)from an early release
from preventive detention for
house arrest.
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FM Shalom
Meets with Costa Rica FM Tovar
Israel's Deputy Prime Minister
and Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom hosted his colleague, the
Foreign Minister of Costa Rica,
Roberto Tovar Faja, for a
working meeting followed by a
luncheon.
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Computer
Problems Shut Down Registro
A
problem with the power source at
the Registro Nacional (National
Register) on Thursday caused a
complete system shutdown. The
problem was located and repaired
by the end of Thursday, but the
officials felt they needed the
extra days of Friday and the
weekend to back up the data and
do a system wide check. more
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Venezuela
accuses US of discrediting,
isolating Chavez
The Venezuelan government on
Monday accused the United States
of waging a "dirty war" of
propaganda to discredit and
isolate President Hugo Chavez,
and said it would report the
case to the Organization of
American States (OAS) this week.
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Journalist
killed by militants in Colombia
A veteran press-photographer was
shot dead by illegal militants
in the southwestern Colombian
city of Tulua on Sunday night,
becoming the second journalist
killed this year in one of the
most dangerous countries for
journalists, police said on
Monday.
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More than
20 Million Mexican Youths
Unemployed
More than 20 million Mexican
youths are without a job now in
Mexico, and the number might be
doubled over the next 15 years,
alerted the Mexican Republic
Management Confederation (COPARMEX)
here Monday. more
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MEXICO:
Health
Officials Launch Alert as Spring
Breakers Pour In
The discovery in the United
States of a virulent new strain
of the AIDS virus has led
Mexican health authorities to
sound the alert in Cancún, the
beach resort regularly inundated
at this time of year with U.S.
college students looking for a
good time.
Residents of this world-famous
Caribbean tourism hotspot on
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula have
been warned to take extra
precautions if they engage in
sexual relations with the young
tourists flooding in during
Spring Break, as the annual
recess in U.S. university
classes is known.
>From mid-February through
March, Cancún's beaches, hotels
and discotheques are filled with
pleasure-seeking students from
the United States, many of whom
engage in high-risk behaviours
like excessive consumption of
alcohol and drugs and
unprotected sex.
Last year, five young tourists
died in Cancún (which means
”serpent's nest” in the
indigenous Mayan language). Two
were victims of overdoses, one
was killed in a car accident,
one drowned, and the fifth
committed suicide after a night
of partying.
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