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Ex-judge Andrés Perez was sentenced to five years of prison for reducing 12 years off the sentence of two "narcotics detectives". Perez thanked his defence attoreny, William Guido, for all his efforts, with a kiss to the forehead. Tow other ex-judges, Miguel Larios and Jose Madrigal, were acquitted.
[Foto: La Nacion]
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PUBLIC
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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URGENT!
The
administrator of the
German School in San Jose, a
Gisela Baardse is in
desperate and ongoing need
of Group O Negative blood.
If
you have Type O Negative, please
go to the blood bank at
Hospital San Juan de Dios.
stating
that your a donor for
"Gisela Baardse".
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Washington
Pursues post-Cancun Vendetta Against
Group of 21
A
promising new bloc of countries was born
in the run-up to the World Trade
Organization ministerial in Cancun: the
Group of 21. Led by Brazil, India, South
Africa, and China, the group played a
major role in preventing the European
Union and United States from extracting
greater agricultural tariff reductions
from the poor countries while
maintaining the massive subsidization of
their agricultural systems that has
promoted the dumping that has driven
millions of small agricultural producers
in the developing world from the
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