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Costa Rica
Confirms Second AH1N1 Flu Virus Death
The Ministerio de Salud late Monday night
confirmed the second death due to the AH1N1
flu virus, saying that the death was of a 35
year old woman who had been admitted to the
emergency room last week suffering from
severe pneumonia.
Costa Rica
Calls On International Community To Condemn
Honduras Coup
Costa Rican president Oscar Arias called on
the international community and especially
the nations of the Americas to condemn the
coup that took place in Honduras earlier on
Sunday.
Heredia Train
Start Delayed. Again.
The Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles
(Incofer), just cannot seem to get the
Heredia train on the right track.
Costa Rica To Reach
5.5 Million Cellular Phone Users by 2014
Costa Rica will top 5.5 million mobile
cellular phone users by 2014, according to a
report by Signals Telecom Consulting.
Another Costa Rican At
NASA
Costa Rican born, Sandra Alba Cauffman, an
industrial engineering major from the
Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) and NASA's
Deputy Project Manager for the GOES-R
(Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite) Program, since 2002 has been
promoted to Project Manager.
Tentacles of Drug
Trafficking Extend Widely in Costa Rica
The 80 tons of cocaine seized in the last
three years are the best evidence that the
tentacles of drug trafficking are spreading
freely through Costa Rica, a country that
was taken unawares by organized crime due to
the lack of laws and specialization by the
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Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya demonstrate in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. The death toll from protests against the interim Honduran government installed after a military coup increased to two on Monday after a protestor died in hospital. |
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Costa Rica president took part in the SICA meeting on Monday in Nicaragua, where he
deplored the coup in Honduras. Arias will be heading the SICA for the next six months as of tomorrow. |
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Obama Expresses Optimism About Colombia Free Trade
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is confident that the U.S. and Colombia can ultimately reach a deal on a stalled trade agreement.
IMF Sees Colombia
Staging Economic Recovery In 2009
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Colombia's economy should
stage a recovery in the second half of the year and
return gradually to a path of sustained growth, an
official from the International Monetary Fund said
Friday.
Argentine Party for Mobilization
Buenos Aires - Argentine Partido Obrero (Workers Party)
called for mobilizations in all of Latin America on
Monday to repudiate the coup in Honduras against the
government of President Manuel Zelaya.
Kirchner Admits Defeat in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires - The president of the Justicialista Party, Nestor Kirchner, on Monday
recognized his defeat in the partial legislative
elections, and called to increase governability as a
clear alternative during the 2011 presidential
elections. |
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CRISIS IN HONDURAS
HONDURAS: Obama
Declares Coup "Not
Legal" Amid
Uncertainty
Capping a day of
mixed signals, U.S.
President Barack
Obama said late
Monday that he
considered Sunday's
ouster and exile of
Honduran President
Manuel Zelaya to be
"not legal" and that
Washington still
considered him the
legitimate president
of the Central
American country.
CRISIS IN HONDURAS
HONDURAS: Analysts
Call Coup a "Return
to the Past"
Sunday’s coup d’etat
shows that in
Honduras, democracy
- which was restored
in 1982 - is still
hemmed in by the
military’s alliance
with the economic
and political
powers-that-be,
according to local
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Waterfalls and Gardens
Think Costa Rica only boasts
fun and excitement on her
coasts?
Think again. The Spaniards
did name this country “rich
coast”, but don’t make the
mistake so many others do
and forget to examine all
that luscious space
in-between.
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Could Costa Rica
Overthrow Its President?
The
Honduran legislature
decided last week
decided that that the
president as unfit to
govern and Sunday
morning a group of
soldiers took Manuel
Zelaya by force and put
on a plane headed for
Costa Rica, in a coup
d'etat since the Cold
War. Zelaya said he was
kidnapped by Honduran
military officers, who
dragged him from his
residence. |
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