Arias
Promises NOT To Sell Off ICE
In an open letter to employees,
president-elect, Oscar Arias,
promised not to private the
state monopoly on
telecommunications and
electrical power, the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE).
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A small boat sails near
the U.S. Coast Guard
Gentian some 19 nautical
miles south of Panama
City, on Thursday. The
U.S., Panama, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Guatemala,
Belize, Colombia, Costa
Rica, and El Salvador
are participating in a
naval training exercise
called Round Up, for
sailors on Point Class
ships who are guided by
trainers on the US Coast
Guard Gentian. [AP
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Change
Could Soon See Gasoline Price
Shopping At The Pumps
Costa Ricans are accustomed to
buying the same gasoline at the
same prices at any gasoline
station in the country. The
price of gasoline is set by the
Refinadora Costarricense de
Petroleo (RECOPE) with the
approval of the Autoridad
Reguladora de los Servicios
Públicos (ARESEP) - government
regulating agency.
Pacheco
Gets Poor Marks On His Final
Report Card
President Abel Pacheco is set to
step down from the presidency in
a few days, however, he has
already received his report card
from the Costa Rican public, who
gave him a 5.3 grade average.
Global
Crossing to Extend Core Network
to Costa Rica
Global Crossing announced plans
to extend its Pan American
Crossing (PAC) system, which
runs along the west coast of
Central America from Panama to
Los Angeles.
Costa
Rica Expects to Reach World Cup
Second Round
Costa Rica coach Alexandre
Guimaraes said he believes his
team would make into the second
round of the World Cup finals in
Germany.
Journalists To Jail For Slander,
Constitutional Court Upholds
Antiquated Law
A 104 year old law, article 7 of
the Ley de imprenta, could see
journalists behind bars for up
to 100 days for slander, the
Constitutional Court or Sala IV
confirmed yesterday.
Venezuela ambassador leaves Lima
amid escalating Venezuela-Peru
tension
The already tense Venezuela-Peru
relations worsened on Thursday,
after Venezuela recalled its
ambassador in Lima, four days
after Peru withdrew its
ambassador in Caracas amid an
escalating war of words.
Mexico
arrests 158 illegal Central
American immigrants
Mexico's Immigration and
Naturalization Service arrested
158 illegal Central American
immigrants in the central state
of Puebla on Thursday, police
said.
Brazil's Petrobras to halt new
investments in Bolivia
Brazilian state-owned
energy company Petroleo
Brasileiro (Petrobras) will make
no new investments in Bolivia
and will not accept any change
in the price of natural gas
imports, the head of the company
said on Wednesday.
Colombia arrests 16 drug-money
laundering suspects
Colombia's secret service said
on Tuesday that it had arrested
16 people charged with
laundering drug money totaling
at least 4 million U.S. dollars.
Nationalization is not
expropriation: Bolivian
president
Bolivian President Evo Morales
said on Wednesday the
nationalization of the natural
gas sector was not confiscation
or expropriation of foreign
companies assets.
ENERGY:
Neighbours
Recognise Bolivia's ‘Sovereign'
Right to Nationalise Gas
The
presidents of Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela
confirmed their interest in
moving together towards regional
energy integration, in a summit
held Thursday in the
northeastern Argentine province
of Misiones to discuss the
impact of the Bolivian
government's decision to
reassert state control over the
country's energy resources.
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