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San José, Costa Rica -
Saturday 26 February 2005 |
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Spanish
Consortium Managers Flee Costa
Rica
According to immigration
reports, it was 10:05pm on
Wednesday night when two
representatives of the Spanish
construction consortium Obrascón
Huarte Laín (OHL), took Iberia
flight 6310 and left Costa Rican
territory headed for Madrid,
Spain.
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Costa
Rica's New Ambassador to the OAS
Ambassador Javier Sancho
Bonilla, presenting credentials
on Friday as Costa Rica’s new
Permanent Representative to the
Organization of American States
(OAS), renewed his nation’s
commitment to the regional
Organisation and the
inter-American system as well as
to the defense and promotion of
human rights, democracy and
hemispheric security.
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Costa Rica
- Japan Celebrate 70 Years
Costa Rica in a celebration at
Casa Presidencial yesterday
re-confirmed it's 70 year tie
with Japan.
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Be Wary of
the Costa Rica Lottery Letter
Scam
Imagine, the phone rings and
someone on the other end says
you just won millions in the
Costa Rica lottery. You never
entered the lottery, but they
say all you have to do to become
rich is send a few thousand
dollars for a finder's fee.
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Two Marinas in Golfito
The Costa Rican Board of
Tourism (ICT) and the
Commission for Marinas recently
approved the operation of two
marinas in the southern Pacific
port of Golfito, Banana Bay
Marina, with 16 slips, and
Golfito Marina, with 217 slips.
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Venezuela tracking down
ex-president for his part in
anti-Chavez coup
Venezuela is trying to track
down former president Carlos
Andres Perez who was
indicted for his alleged
role in the April 2002 coup
against President Hugo
Chavez, Attorney General
Isaias Rodriguez said
Friday. more
Chilean candidate ready for
earlier OAS elections
Interior Minister Jose
Insulza, candidate for the
secretary-general of the
Organization of American
States (OAS), said Friday
that he would accept the
idea of bringing forward
elections to March if the
member states so decide.
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Peruvian president to
testify over alleged
signature forgery
Peruvian President Alejandro
Toledo will testify before a
commission over charges
against him of a massive
signature forgery, which was
to qualify his party in the
2000 elections,
investigators said Friday.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Colombia
Gearing Up to Do Its Bit
Colombia is set to begin
systematically measuring the
impact of climate change on its
remarkably diverse territory,
which ranges from Caribbean and
Pacific coastal regions to
snow-capped Andes mountains and
tropical Amazon rainforest, in
compliance with the Kyoto
Protocol.
A five-year Integral National
Adaptation Pilot Project (INAP),
to be designed this year and to
go into effect in early 2006,
will be ”the first climate
change adaptation project in the
world,” according to Colombian
officials.
”Everyone will be closely
watching our methodology,”
Minister of the Environment,
Housing and Territorial
Development Sandra Suárez told
IPS.
The project will involve
documenting trends and impacts
and evaluating the foreseeable
consequences of climate change,
with particular attention to the
highly vulnerable ecosystem of
the ”páramos” or high plateaus
and the Andes mountain glaciers.
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