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Pot Hole Repairs
Work crews busy at work, taking
advantage of the little rain of the past
weeks, to repair road surfaces damaged by
excessive rains and bad maintenance.
[Foto: insidecostaric.com]
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updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
ANEP Calls
for Protest Today Against Wage
Increase
According
to the National Association of Employees
Public, ANEP, a 3.5% increase he is
humiliating, insufficient and it does not
face the waves of increases costs. >more
Nicaraguan
President Arrives Today
Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua,
visits Costa Rica today with the main
intention to smooth relations between the
countries especially in the area of
immigration.>more
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Costa Rican groceries
Following
our story a few days back about options to
obtain Costa Rican food in the US, some
readers wrote to say they have found some
products in local supermarkets. >more
Panama,
Taiwan set to hold trade pact's final talks
Panama and
Taiwan are set to hold a fifth and final
round of negotiations on a free trade
agreement on August 10 in Taipei, a
Panamanian official involved in the talks
said. >more
US returns 15 boat hijackers to Cuba
The US Coast Guard said on Monday that one of its cutter had brought back to Cuba 15 Cubans who hijacked a boat to head for the United States on July 15.
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5,000 Colombian paramilitaries to be demobilized in three months
Colombia's far right paramilitary
group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) announced on
Monday plans to demobilize 5,000 paramilitaries in northwestern
Colombia over three months. >more
Argentina forecasts moderate economic growth
Argentina's economy will grow 4.5 percent to 5.0 percent in the second half of the year, Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna told the press on Monday.
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Brazil to reinforce border security
The Brazilian army will reinforce control over the borders with Colombia, Peru and Venezuela with the deployment of larger numbers of troops, it said Monday.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: CUBA - US
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Return
of Illegal Migrants a Sign of Improved
Relations?
Cuba
and the United States achieved at least
a slight rapprochement in their
decades-old conflict Monday by
reaffirming bilateral migration policy
after the U.S. government sent the 15
Cubans aboard a stolen boat back to the
socialist-run island.
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REPORTS: COLOMBIA
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Impunity
and broken promises
One year and over
one hundred deaths later, justice still proves elusive.
Boats arrive on the muddy banks of Bellavista, the
urban center of the Bojayá municipality in the Pacific
department of Chocó. They carry with them government and
non-government officials, members of the diplomatic corps
and journalists, but also scores of survivors returning to
the humble township for the first time since fleeing a
year earlier, many still too traumatized to return for
good. >more
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