San José, Costa Rica -
Saturday 29 January 2005
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American
Survives Fall From Bridge in
Quepos
Jack Nesseth, the 55 year old
American, knows all about luck
when a pipe tore through when
his rental car overturned over a
bridge over the Paquita river in
Quepos on Sunday morning.
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Focus on Lowering
Inflation
During the next two years, the
Central Bank will concentrate on lowering the rhythm of the increase in
consumer prices.
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20,000 Textile Jobs
Endangered
More than the low-cost production of
China, the Costa Rican textile sector fears the transfer of plants from here
to elsewhere in Central America.
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Canadian
Deportation Order Broke Up
Marriage, Tearful Claimant Says
A refugee claimant from Costa
Rica was in tears as she boarded
a plane with her two children in
the Yukon on Friday, saying her
husband had chosen to desert her
rather than obey a deportation
order.
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Miss Costa
Rica 2005
Johanna Fernández, 23, was
crownd Miss Costa Rica 2005 last
night.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Check out the Grupo
Nación
elempleo.com
website
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Colombia,
Venezuela settle dispute
Both Colombia and Venezuela
announced Friday that they have
solved their
nearly-two-month-old dispute
over the arrest of a Colombian
rebel leader, a statement issued
by the president's office said.
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Chinese
vice president arrives in
Venezuela for official visit
Chinese Vice President Zeng
Qinghong Friday afternoon
arrived in Caracas from Lima on
an official visit as guest of
his Venezuelan counterpart Jose
Vicente Rangel.
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Guerrilla
leader captured in Colombia
A leader of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),
the largest rebel group in the
country, has been captured in
Bogota, authorities said on
Friday.
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How to
Elect More Women?
Look to Costa Rica
In
2002, the percentage of women
municipal legislators in Costa
Rica was unmatched by any other
democratically elected national
legislature in the world. A
recent study examines how this
Costa Rica achieved such an
enviable record.
In the past decade, a handful of
Latin American countries, as
well as Belgium and, more
recently, France, adopted
legislation to improve women's
representation in their
legislatures. Not all of these
laws have been effective, but as
a Rice political scientist
found, countries could learn a
lesson from Costa Rica's
success.
Mark P. Jones, an associate
professor of political science
at Rice University, recently
completed a study on quota
legislation in Costa Rica where,
since 1990, significantly more
women have been elected in that
country's municipal elections.
Published in the November 2004
issue of The Journal of
Politics, the report sheds light
on the reasons why there has
been such a mixed record of
success with other countries'
quota legislation and what they
might learn from Costa Rica's
experience.
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