San José, Costa Rica -
Sunday 30 January 2005
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Civil
Marriages Double That of
Catholic Marriages
According to figures released by
the Registro Civil, there were
16.059 civil marriages
registered in the year 2004,
slightly more than double those
by Catholics: 6.843.
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The Price
of Coffee Going Up
One of most consumed products in
Costa Rica - coffee - is going
up in price.
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Visits to National
Parks Increased
The number of foreign tourists who
visited the Costa Rican national parks last year increased by 27.13 percent,
from 526, 975 tourists in 2003 to 669,980 in 2004.
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Costa
Rican Kids Give Up Summer for
Plains Winter
Twelve Costa Rican students saw
snow for the first time when
their English teacher, Holdrege
native Spencer McClymont,
brought them to Nebraska. more
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Colombia,
Venezuela pleased with
settlement of diplomatic rift
Colombian and Venezuelan leaders
on Saturday hailed the
settlement of the diplomatic
crisis aroused bythe capture of
a Colombian rebel leader, saying
the impasse was solved in a
positive way.
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ANCOM
hails Colombia-Venezuela
reconciliation after diplomatic
rift
The Andean Community (ANCOM) on
Saturday welcomed the
reconciliation between
Colombia-Venezuela after a
diplomatic crisis, hailing the
end of the crisis as an evidence
of the efficiency of the Andean
mechanisms and the aspiration
for regional integration.
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World Bank
offers $600 mln loan for
Guatemala
The World Bank (WB) said
Saturday that it will grant a
loan of 600 million US dollars
to Guatemala for education, the
fight against corruption and
other projects.
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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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