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Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu greets a group of young Mayans in Guatemala City
Thursday.
Menchu and Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias participated in peace conferences with Latin American youth.
[Foto: AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Zoellick Upbeat on
U.S.- Centam Free Trade Deal
The top U.S. trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, began talks
in El Salvador hursday to push ahead with a
U.S.- Central America free trade agreement, despite disagreements over Costa Rica's defense of its telecom sector.
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Industry
Staggers Under Uncertainty
The trade negotiations with the United States and domestic fiscal changes have made many industries lower their production and postpone new investment.
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Harken
Wants $57 billion
Harken
Energy Corporation - a US oil firm - claims
that Costa Rica must compensate it with $57
billion for the alleged losses it suffered
because this Central American nation
cancelled an oil exploration license it had
awarded Harken. >more
Russia
and Costa Rica dispute lawfulness of smoking
ban at UN HQ
Russia and Costa Rica
are heading the campaign for lifting a ban on
smoking at the UN headquarters which was officially
announced a month ago by the UN Secretary General.
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The
Murder of Minors Continues in Honduras
After
a significant drop in the numbers of murders
of children and youth in Honduras in the
month of July, during August the numbers
shot up again, with a total of 64 children
and youth under the age of 23 murdered,
close to half of them children.
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American Berenson Married in Peru Prison
Lori Berenson, an American serving a 20-year sentence for aiding leftist rebels, married a former inmate Thursday in a prison ceremony the groom was barred from attending because he is on parole.
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Boat Bomb explosion leaves two injured in Colombia
A boat bomb explosion near a major oil-pipeline in Colombia's Arauca region injured two people and nine other bombs in the same region were deactivated, the military reported Thursday.
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G22
Warm Up for Post-Cancun Talks
The group of developing
countries known as G22, or G20 plus,
which united in Cancun, Mexico, to
oppose continuing farm subsidies in the
United States and the European Union, is
preparing to continue World Trade
Organization (WTO) negotiations despite
the debacle of the ministerial
conference last month in Cancun.
The G22 (Group of 22) held meetings on
Thursday in Geneva to assess the
situation after the thwarted outcome of
the Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference
three weeks ago in the Mexican Caribbean
resort. The first discussion involved
the core countries of the G22:
Argentina, Brazil, China, India and
South Africa. Later, the full membership
gathered at the WTO headquarters to
hammer out strategy. >more
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