San José, Costa Rica -
Thursday 13 January 2005
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As Floods
Recede, The Affected Going Home
As the water
recedes, those
evacuated to temporary shelters
are starting to return home. Or what is left of it. The Comisión Nacional de
Emergencia (CNE) says that the
number of people in shelters is
down to 6.171 last night from
8.500 the day earlier.
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Pacheco's Tour of the Affected Area Cut Short by
Demonstration
A group of taxi drivers yesterday
impeded President Abel Pacheco's tour of the Caribbean zone
to get a first hand look at the damage and loss by the
residents there.more
Central Bank Announces Plan to
Reduce Inflation
The Banco Central
de Costa Rica (BCCR) - Central
Bank - announced yesterday that
it's principal goal for 2005 is
to reduce inflation by at least
3.3 percentage points lower than
in 2004. If the bank is able to
achieve it's goal, the inflation
rate for this year would be kept
at 10%.more
Occidental
Hotels & Resorts Continues
Expansion with Addition of
Grand Papagayo
Occidental Hotels & Resorts,
one of the world's leading
resort companies and
all-inclusive hoteliers in
the Americas, announced its
newest resort, Grand
Papagayo in Guanacaste.
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Tamarindo Airport Closure
Threatened
The owners of Tamarindo
Airport warned the Costa
Rican Government Wednesday (January
5) they would shut
the airport down within a
week if they were not
allowed to charge outgoing
passengers a fee for using
the facility.
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Caribbean
region in earthquake and tsunami
risk: study
Countries in Caribbean region
are facing real threats of major
earthquakes and tsunamis, US
scientists said Wednesday.
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Cuba
highlights relations with India
Cuba voiced its firm support for
and solidarity with India on the
45th anniversary of their
diplomatic relations, the local
daily Granma said Wednesday.
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Colombian
gov't reinforces anti-kidnapping
measures
Colombia will allocate 12
million US dollars to the
Special Anti-Kidnapping Units of
the Fourth Army Brigade to help
combat rampant kidnappings in
the South American country, said
a government statement
Wednesday.
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Flores
embarks on Caribbean tour to
seek support for OAS
Former
Salvadorean President Francisco
Flores started a Caribbean tour
on Wednesday to seek support for
his candidacy of secretary
general of the Organizationof
American States (OAS). more
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The Cuban Biotech Revolution
Embargo or no, Castro´s
socialist paradise has quietly
become a pharmaceutical
powerhouse, says Douglas Starr
of the Center for Science and
Medical Journalism at Boston
University, in an article
published by Wired and offered
wholly to our readers.
" The end of the cold war was
cruel to Cuba. The country"s
trading partners, denied Soviet
largesse, dried up. Hard cash
ran low. What food the country
could grow languished in the
fields; trucks didn"t have
enough gasoline to bring the
crops to market. And of course
there was the US embargo.
What Cubans call "the Special
Period" produced one notable
success: pharmaceuticals. In the
wake of the Soviet collapse,
Cuba got so good at making
knockoff drugs that a thriving
industry took hold. Today the
country is the largest medicine
exporter in Latin America and
has more than 50 nations on its
client list. Cuban meds cost far
less than their first-world
counterparts, and Fidel Castro's
government has helped China,
Malaysia, India, and Iran set up
their own factories:
"south-to-south technology
transfer."
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