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Monday 29 September
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Laura Leaving
Vice-Presidency on
October 1
Vice-president and
ministra de Justicia y
Gracia, Laura Chinchilla
Miranda, is expected to
resign her post on
October 1, when she
officially announces her
candidacy for the
Partido Liberación
Nacional (PLN)
nomination for the 2010
presidential elections.
Fire Fighters Now
Independent of INS
After 83 years of being
part of the Instituto
Nacional de Seguros
(INS), the Cuerpo de
Bomberos (fire
department) yesterday
became an independent
body. The historic event
Reserve Investment
The Banco Central
de Costa Rica (BCCR)
-Central Bank - stepped
up the security measures
to invest foreign
currency reserves.
Politicians And
Popularity
Costa Rican
vice-president Laura
Chinchilla and president
Oscar Arias top the list
of the politicians who
enjoy positive opinions
from Costa Ricans.
Effort for Jacó
The community
organizations in the
canton of Garabito,
Puntarenas, are making
efforts to restore clean
waters at Jacó Beach.
Medical Implants
The sales abroad of
medical implants,
including those used for
breast enhancements and
to help lose weight,
increased markedly this
year’s first two
quarters.
Panamanians Nix US
Blockade on Cuba
SANTIAGO DE VERAGUAS -
The Central American and
Caribbean Meeting of
Solidarity with Cuba
condemned the US
blockade of the
Caribbean Island, which
participants described
as genocidal,
extraterritorial and
unfair.
Russia To Help Venezuela
Build Nuclear Reactor
CARACAS - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez
expressed readiness
Sunday to accept
Russia's offer to help
develop his country's
nuclear energy program
for peaceful purposes.
Cuba Expects 13 percent
Growth in Tourism
HAVANA - Cuban tourism
has vitality, said
Manuel Marrero, Cuban
Minister of Tourism, in
spite of the harm
inflicted to this
sector´s facilities by
hurricanes Gustav and
Ike.
EU Observer Mission Says
Ecuadorian
Constitutional
Referendum "Important"
QUITO - The EU observer
mission chief Jose
Ribiero said on Sunday
that the constitutional
referendum in Ecuador is
important for the
country's economic and
political future.
Emergency Move to Save
Cuban Coffee Harvest
YATERAS - An emergency
mobilization engages in
saving 100 thousand bags
of coffee affected by
hurricane Ike in this
eastern Cuban locality
of Guantanamo province.
RELIGION:
Atheists Take to the
Streets
Atheists who have
built up a virtual
community over the last
decade will hold the
"First Global Atheist
March for a Secular
Society" on Sunday, with
the aim of defending
their views and
protesting that they are
misinterpreted and in
some cases discriminated
against.
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