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San José, Costa Rica -
Monday 31 January 2005
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Oscar
Arias: If I Lose, the PLN is
Dead
The daily Spanish language
newspaper La Nación published an
interview with presidential
candidate Oscar Arias, telling
that newspaper that if he loses
the presidential race next year,
the Partido Liberación National
(PLN) will die. He told
reporters Carlos Villalobos and
Berlioth Herrera, that this is
the year to regain confidence.
 more
Alterra
and MOPT Come to Possible
Agreement
Representatives of the the
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y
Transportes (MOPT) and Alterra
Partners, the builder and
manager of the Juan Santamaria
International airport, will
today meet with officials of the
banks that financed the project,
led by the Corporación
Financiera Internacional - which
forms part of the Banco Mundial
- to determine to continue
disbursing funds for the project
which was never completely
finished.
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Taiwan
Pledges us$50 Million to Build
Road Linking San Carlos to San
José
As Taiwan and China's diplomatic
tug-of-war in the Caribbean
intensifies, a forum designed to
boost trade between China and 16
small countries in the region
scheduled for Wednesday is seen
as another move by Beijing to
undermine Taipei's ties with its
Caribbean allies. more
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Presidents
of Venezuela, Colombia to meet
over diplomatic crisis
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
said Sunday that his meeting
with Colombian President Alvaro
Uribe will discuss the
diplomatic crisis between the
two countries to seek a final
resolution.
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Illegal
weapons overflow in Argentina
Argentine police Saturday raided
an underground weapons store
under the disguise of a bar ina
suburb of the capital,
confiscating several illegal
weapons and arresting the
shop-owner, local reports said
on Sunday.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM:
Nobel
Laureate Saramago Defends Lula
Portuguese author José Saramago,
winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize
for Literature, condemned the
''disproportionate'' protests at
the World Social Forum against
the president of the host
country, Brazil's Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva.
But he advised the Brazilian
leader against taking
''paternalistic'' attitudes.
Saramago took part in a
conference Saturday titled
''Quixote Today: Politics and
Utopia" as part of the fifth
World Social Forum, the giant
civil society gathering under
way in the southern Brazilian
city of Porto Alegre through
Jan. 31, which has drawn around
120,000 participants.
Joining him in the panel
discussion were Uruguayan author
Eduardo Galeano, editor of the
French newspaper Le Monde
Diplomatique, Ignacio Ramonet,
and Brazilian presidential
secretary Luiz Dulci.
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