San José, Costa Rica -
Wednesday 05 January 2005
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Judge
Cuts Calderón Jail Term
A judge on Friday reduced from
six to three months the amount
of time that former president
Rafael Angel Calderón must
remain in jail while authorities
investigate him on illegal
enrichment charges. The court
ruled Tuesday.
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Municipality and Vendors Reach
Agreement
It was late yesterday afternoon
when the Municipality of San
José and the Street Vendors
removed the day earlier came to
an agreement on three key
points.
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The San
José-Caldera Will Go Ahead
The Minister of Obras Publicas y
Transporte (MOPT), Ranndal
Quirós, announced that the road
that will connect San José to
Caldera will go ahead even
though the Canadian firm
contracted for the work backed
out and one year behind
schedule.
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2004
Inflation Highest in Eight
Years; Second Highest in Latin
America
The Spanish language daily
newspaper, La Nación,
reports that inflation closed in
2004 at 13.13%, the highest in 8
years, with one of the highest
inflation record in Latin
America. Venezuela topped Costa
Rica at 19%.
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Costa Rica
Park Opens in Korea
The Embassy of Costa Rica in
Seoul held the opening ceremony
of the Park of Costa Rica in
front of the World Cup Stadium
in Mapo, Seoul, in December.
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800 Colombian paramilitaries to
lay down arms in January
Some 800 paramilitaries will
hand over their arms by the
middle of this month, within the
framework of the peace process
between the Colombian government
and the rightist United
Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
(AUC), said congresswoman Rocio
Arias on Tuesday.
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Former Paraguayan president
faces confiscation of assets
A prosecutor in Paraguay
demanded Tuesday the
confiscation of 800,000 US
dollars from former Paraguayan
President Luis Gonzalez Macchi,
local press reported.
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Chile's Supreme Court
upholds indictment against
Pinochet
Chile's Supreme Court on
Tuesday upheld an indictment
against former dictator
Augusto Pinochet for one
murder and nine kidnappings
in relation to the Operation
Condor case.
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RIGHTS-CHILE:
Ghosts
from the Past Have Pinochet in
Their Grip Once Again
Ghosts from the past have again
reached out to trap former
Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto
Pinochet (1973-1990) in the web
of justice Tuesday, after his
defence lawyers failed in their
attempt to get him declared
mentally unfit to stand trial.
In a three-to-two ruling, a
Supreme Court panel of judges
rejected a challenge brought by
Pinochet's defence counsel, thus
allowing charges against him to
go ahead.
In accordance with a Dec. 13
decision by Judge Juan Guzmán,
Pinochet will thus be put under
house arrest on charges of being
the "intellectual author" of
nine kidnappings (forced
disappearances) and one homicide
of Chileans who were seized in
the 1970s by the security forces
in Argentina, Paraguay and
Brazil.
The Supreme Court decision
definitively dismissed the
argument by Pinochet's attorneys
that the mild senile dementia he
has been diagnosed with makes
him unfit to go on trial.
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