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San José, Costa Rica -
Friday 14 January 2005
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Aid Starts Arriving
The Red Cross and other
public organizations started to distribute water and basic
food items among the victims of the floods.
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Telethons To Collect Donations
Without a home,
shelter or nutrition... the rain left thousands of resident
of the provinces of Limón and Heredia adrift. However, they
are not alone, as Costa Ricans come together, regardless of
political color and preference and join force to help those
affected. Both, channels 7 and 6 have both planned telethons
to collect donations.
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Thieves Walk In to Bank and Walk Out
With ¢26.000.000 Colones
Three men never
thought it could be so easy to become millionaires.
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Ticos Love Surfing the Net
In Costa Rica, 1,931 people
in every 10,000 habitually surf the Internet, thus placing
it second in Latin America. Chile leads with 2,375 users per
every 10,000.
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High Hotel Occupation
The rate of occupation in
Costa Rican hotels for the first quarter this year will be
85 percent to 95 percent, an average 15 percent more than in
the same period last year.
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Venezuela
recalls ambassador to Colombia
Venezuelan Vice President
Jose Rangel announced Thursday
that Venezuela has called back
its ambassador to Colombia as
Colombia admitted bribing
Venezuelan security officials to
capture a Colombian guerrilla
leader.
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Chile
judge requests authorization to
probe Pinochet's foreign
accounts
The judge in charge of
investigation into former
Chilean leader Augusto
Pinochet's foreign accounts
requested authorization Thursday
to investigate several foreign
banks, local media reported.
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Colombian
guerrillas to participate in
elections
The guerrillas of the
National Liberation Army (ELN)
of Colombia announced Thursday
they will participate in the
coming elections but not join
the FARC movement. more
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MEXICO:
Zapatista
Guerrillas Quiet but Still
Present in Chiapas
Eleven years after a government
decree that suspended army
attacks on the indigenous
Zapatista guerrillas in southern
Mexico, the government of
Vicente Fox has concluded that
the insurgent group has become a
thing of the past.
However, lawmakers and human
rights activists told IPS that
the president was mistaken in
writing off the Zapatista
National Liberation Army (EZLN).
Although they recognise that the
group's political influence has
waned, the sources pointed out
that the EZLN remains active
among indigenous people in the
southern state of Chiapas, and
that the problems that prompted
the rebels to take up arms in
early 1994 remain virtually
unchanged.
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