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Fanatica Más Sexy" here!
Tránsito Studying Fining Drivers
For Watching Television
Taxi drivers warn that if a plan
by the Policía de Tránsito
(traffic police) to fine drivers
for watching television while
driving will mean fewer taxis on
the road during the World Cup games.
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There is no law that
specifically prohibits
drivers from watching
television while
driving, as the Policía
de Tránsito studies the
possibility of fining
drivers similar to the
no use of a cellular phone.
Tránsito officials have
to be sure that the
driver was distracted
for the fine to stick,
accoding to Policía de Tránsito
director,
German Marín.
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Sexual
Abuser Judge On The Lam; Tico
Teacher Wanted For Sexual Abuse
Arrested in the U.S.
The Organismo de Investigación
Judicial (OIJ) has mounted an
intense operation to find
Gerardo Calero Miranda, the
former judge who was found by
the juzgado Contravencional y de
Menor Cuantía de Sarapiquí,
Heredia, for sexually abusing a
14 year old girl while he was on
the bench.
Taxi
Drivers Admit to Surcharge
A number of taxi drivers
interviewed by the Spanish daily
newspaper DIARIO EXTRA accept
that they charge between ¢5 and
¢10 colones more per kilometre
as reported by a study by the
Laboratorio de Metrología,
Normalización y Calidad de la
Universidad de Costa Rica (Labcal).
WORLD
CUP:
Ticos
Win First Friendly Unimpressive
The first pre-cup Tico test was
Saturday against something
called Breitner’s Bam team, a
regional selection, played in
the town of Lahr in front of
6,500 locals.
Christopher Howard Meets With
president Oscar Arias Again
y) writer Christopher Howard met
with Costa Rica’s new President
Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez for the
second time in three months.

Guatemala: Slow Reconstruction
Process Criticized
The beginning of the raining
season in Guatemala raised the
tone of the criticism to the
local government because of the
slowness of the reconstruction
works 7 months after the
devastating course of Hurricane
Stan.
France-Cuba Senates Meet in
Havana
Bernard Piras, vice president of
the France-Cuba senatorial
friendship group, is in Havana,
invited by the Cuban parliament.
Colombian Presidential Hopefuls
Get Ready for Polls
Colombian presidential
candidates are expected to stage
their last public all-out
showdown today, a week before
the general elections scheduled
for May 28.
Uribe remains Colombia's most
popular presidential candidate:
opinion poll
With only one week to go before
Colombia's presidential
elections, incumbent President
Alvaro Uribe remains the most
popular candidate, an opinion
poll showed on Sunday.
Venezuelan president orders exit
from G3 trade bloc
Venezuela's President Hugo
Chavez said on Sunday that his
country has decided to quit the
trade bloc with Colombia and
Mexico to formally become a
member of the Common Market of
the South (Mercosur).
Ecuador to
refine petrol in Venezuela to
cut costs
Ecuador would refine its petrol
in Venezuela in order to cut
costs, Ecuador's Energy Minister
Ivan Rodriguez, said on Sunday.

LATIN AMERICA:
Concrete
Plans Needed to Reach Zero
Hunger
In
spite of the enormous amount of
food produced in Latin America
and the Caribbean, there is
still hunger in the region. But
each country will have to draw
up its own plan to combat it, as
the size of the problem and
progress towards eradicating it
vary considerably from country
to country.
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