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Tuesday 25 March 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
U.S.
Crisis Will Affect Growth, Exports,
Tourism in Costa Rica, Banco Central
President Says
The possibility of a
recession in the United States is
already causing repercussions in Costa
Rica, where exports and the value of
real estate in tourist areas are
expected to contract, according to the
president of the country’s Banco Central
de Costa Rica (Central Bank), Francisco
de Paula.
Health Minister
Says Ticos Getting Fatter And Obese
According to Ministerio
de Salud (Health Ministry) officials,
Costa Ricans are getting fatter and
obese due to lack of physical exercise
and is calling on the population to
dedicate a few minutes a day to some
form of physical activity to better
their quality of life.
Cuban Woman 15
Days Living in San José Airport
Terminal
Tom Hanks portrayed an
eastern immigrant who finds himself
stranded in JFK airport, and must take
up temporary residence there in the 2004
movie "the Terminal". However, for
Yuderci Abralantes García, living in the
Juan Santamaría (San José) international
airport is no movie role, but real life.
Costa Rica Wins
3rd Consecutive Central American Surf
Championship
The Costa Rica National
Surf Team, for the third consecutive
time in the three-year history of the
Central American Surf Championship
tournament, came away yesterday with the
coveted trophy.
Contraloría Denies
ICE Power Plant Purchases
The Contraloría General de la República
(CGR) - Comptroller's office - has
denied the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) authorization to
purchase two thermal power plants from
the Grupo Pujol-Martí citing that the
purchase price as higher that the
estimated value of the power plants.
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Panama FM Denies Alleged
Links To Colombian Drug
Trafficker
Panama's first Vice
President and Foreign
Minister Samuel Lewis
Navarro on Monday
rejected charges of
having business contacts
with one of Colombia's
top drug traffickers.
Biofuels Affect Latin
America Food Supply
The United Nations Food
and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
warned that food supply
in Latin America faces
risks due to the
production of bio fuels
made from agricultural
products.
Cuban Mobile Surgery in
Guatemala
Cuban physicians are to
open Monday in Quiche
the first mobile
surgical unit so
low-income people from
that remote northwestern
Guatemalan department
can recover vision their
vision for free.
Chavez Calls On Colombia
To Keep Regional Peace
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez Monday
called on his Colombian
counterpart Alvaro Uribe
to keep the peace in the
region and not to be
guided by what he
described as bellicose
voices from the United
States.
Brazil Demonstrators
Against Privatization of
State-Owned Company
About 500 demonstrators
opposed to the
privatization of a large
Brazilian electricity
producer Monday blocked
access to one of the
company's dams,
protesting over an
auction of the majority
stake in the state-owned
company.
BOLIVIA:
Coca Leaf Defended by
Growers, Scientists… and
Taxi Drivers
"They will have to
kill us to make us stop
planting coca," Bolivian
coca grower Luis Mamani
told IPS in response to
a call from the
International Narcotics
Control Board (INCB) to
prohibit traditional
uses of the plant like
coca leaf chewing.
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