San José, Costa Rica -
Sunday 16 January 2005
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Donations Keep Pouring In
While relief efforts are
underway in the Caribbean
communities after the rain
and flood affected more than
8.500 people, causing more
than us$20 million dollar
damage to more than 214
communities, 3.928 houses,
26 clinics and hospitals, 21
water lines and 85 roads and
bridges damaged, some beyond
repair, San José busy
raising money, food and
clothing to help out.
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Ericsson Contract Still Not
Approved
The Ericsson contract to
install in Costa Rica
600.000 new GSM lines got
another kick in the pants
Friday when the Contraloría
General de la República
(Comptroller's office) send
back the us$130 million
dollar contract without a
countersignature.
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Nicaraguans Employed More
Than Costa Ricans
A report in the Spanish
daily newspaper Diario
Extra Saturday says that
Nicaraguans are employed
more than Costa Ricans,
which goes against the
popular belief that
Nicaraguans in Costa Rica
are only a drain on the
health and social system.
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Santa
Cruz Fiestas and the People
to Blame (?) for It
What does it take to make
the biggest and most
renowned Fiestas in the
country? Bulls for a start.
Dozens of them, with august
names like Centenario, and
El Santa Cruz, or others
that mock the animals’
dangerous nature, like
Sombrerito (little hat), and
Pica Pollo (Chicken-Picker).
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Colombia proposes summit to solve diplomatic
crisis with Venezuela
Colombian President Alvaro
Uribe on Saturday proposed to his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo
Chavez, that the two meet to discuss the diplomatic crisis unleashed
by the capture of a Colombian rebel leader.
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Venezuela regrets over Colombia's refusal to
apologize
Venezuela on Saturday
expressed regret over Colombia's refusal to apologize for the
capture of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Argentine FM's luggage searched at US airport
Security agents stopped
Argentine Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa and searched his luggage at
an airport in the United States Friday, according to press reports
here on Saturday. 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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