Editor's note: though no
one guessed correclty
the candidate that came
in dead last, Simone
Bunse, was the first to
guess the next to last
and wins the bottle of
Ron Centanario. Simone
please write or call us.
Clcik here for the
results.
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ELECTION 2006
Election
Gridlocked, New
President Will
Be Named in 15
Days
The Tibunal
Supremo de
Elecciones (TSE)
last night
suspended the
counting at
i591.769 to
588.516 - a
difference of
3.250 votes -
when TSE
president, Oscar
Fonseca,
announced last
night that the
official results
will be
available within
15 days as there
will be a manual
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This was the sentiment during
the last couple of days as many
cars waved both the PLN and PAC
flags, while others had multiple
flags from multiple parties.
This began to happen
election day. Historically,
Costa Rican families tended to
vote together for the same
party. [Foto: Bruce Wilson/ICR]
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ELECTION 2006
Toledo
and Calderon Blame Pacheco For
PUSC Results Sunday
Ricardo Toledo Carranza is
blaming his former boss,
president Abel Pacheco, for his
failure in the polls and the
poor results of the Partido
Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC).
ELECTION 2006
Costa Rican Jewish Legislators
Elected
Two members of Costa Rica�s
small Jewish community won seats
in the country's Legislative
Assembly.
ELECTION 2006
World
Press Wrong About
Presidential Elections
Since early Sunday night
headlines on many internet press
sites and world newspapers,
including Yahoo and Google news,
named Oscar Arias as winning the
presidency. Some used poll
results, stating Arias winning
by 44% of the vote.
Cheap Flights
ToCentral America
Are you looking for someplace
warm to visit this winter? Ever
want to explore Costa Rica,
Belize, or Guatemala?
30 Metre Drop Lands Mand in
Hospital
Twenty five year old Manual Vega
Porras has to be counting his
lucky stars, walking away with
only cuts and bruises after his
car went off a bridge of 30
metres (100 feet) and landed,
wheels side up, in the river
below.
Mexico
Spurns US Anti-Cuban Policy
Mexican social-political
organizations are rallying
Tuesday to thwart implementation
in Mexico of US anti-Cuban laws,
widely snubbed by national
sectors.
Flags
Fly in Cuba against Terrorism
One
hundred black flags with a white
star in the middle are flying in
the wind in front of the US
Interest Section in Havana, in
denunciation of terrorism
against Cuba and the thousands
of victims it has caused.
Quake
Shakes South Peru
A
4.5-degree earthquake on the
Richter scale hit Monday the
Peruvian department of Arequipa,
621 miles south of Lima, with no
victims or material damages.
Argentina-Uruguay Paper Quarrel
Argentine President Nestor
Kirchner and the governor of
Entre Rios province, Jorge Busti,
plan to meet Monday to analyze
the dispute with Uruguay over
the construction of two paper
mills along the common border.
Colombia
apologizes for inadvertent
violation of Ecuador airspace
Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe admitted
on Monday his country's armed
forces violated Ecuadorian
airspace inadvertently last
weekend in hot pursuit of
guerrillas.
ARGENTINA:
World's First
Homeless TV Talk Show Host
A
plaza in a residential
neighbourhood of the Argentine
capital has become "Stellita's
Living Room" for the first TV
programme in the world hosted by
a homeless person.
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