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Teachers take to the street yesterday. A
march on Avenida Central in mid-day blocked
Friday afternoon traffic for hours.
The government is said it will table a
proposal today in an attempt to end the
strike, which is now in it's 13th day1
[Foto: insidecostarica.com]
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updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
Teacher's Strike
Continues: Day 13
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Negotiations
Continue
Government
asks the teachers for more time to prepare a
proposal that should end the work stoppage. >more
Canadians
square off in canopy-tour conflict
A long simmering dispute over just who,
if anyone, owns the rights to the idea of
traversing trees in Costa Rica's lush tropical
forests has broken into all but open conflict,
pitting two Canadians head to head in a
pitched legal battle reaching all the way to
the Supreme Court.
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Costa Rica
is far from solving the problem of the illegal
traffic of
people, says U.S. report
This is
the third consecutive reported by the U.S.
Department of State, that places Costa Rica in
level two, and on the 'gray' lists. The report
says that Costa Rica does not have the minimum
standards in place to eliminate the traffic of
people, even though authorities claim to have
made efforts to eradicate the probelm. >more
Sale of
information
The
Government is drafting a bill aimed at
regulating the sale of confidential
information of Costa Ricans to US
companies. >more
Safe blood
The
American Association of Pathologists awarded
the first quality certification for blood in
Latin America to the Costa Rican Social
Security Institution (CCSS in Spanish). >more
7,000 minors recruited by armed groups in Colombia:
UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said
7,000 minors have been recruited as combatants by armed
groups in Colombia, a local radio reported on Friday. >more
Flooding affects 300 families in Mexico
Storms caused the Mexican rivers Alseseca and
Manzanilla to flood early Friday, affecting atleast 300
families in the city of Puebla, in southern Mexico, but no
one was injured, local media reports said. >more
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: NICARAGUA
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Specialty
coffee
"The
people of Dipilto say this is the best coffee
in the whole of Nicaragua," said Jorge
Arturo Díaz, as he handed over a cup in the
municipal offices of the tiny village, high up
in the northern mountains of Nicaragua, near
Honduras. "Of course, most people say
that about their own coffee," he added.
Dipilto is in Nueva Segovia province, one of
Nicaragua’s best coffee growing regions, at
high altitude with rich soil. >more
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: BRAZIL
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Huge
Market for Small Loans
In
the poorest regions of Brazil, from the urban
favelas or shantytowns to the arid, impoverished
northeast, there is a potential demand for billions
of dollars in microcredit to set up and expand small
businesses, and even the large banks are beginning
to take an interest.
Microfinance is relatively undeveloped in this South
American nation of 171 million, but the new
government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva sees it as a priority in boosting development
and reducing poverty.
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