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Costa Ricans
Protest Trade Agreement With US
Social groups and trade unions of Costa Rica demonstrated in
San José on Monday against negotiations by countries of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States.
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Trade
Talks Timing important for U.S. approval
If trade negotiators from Central America meeting
in Houston, Texas, this week get their way, immigrants from their countries living in the United States may one day find themselves doing business with banks from their homelands.
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Continental
Sets Up New Flights to Costa Rica
Continental Airlines on Monday announced that it will introduce nonstop service between Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Liberia, Costa Rica, on Jan. 31, 2004, subject to government approval.
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44 paramilitaries surrender in Colombia
A total of 44 Colombian paramilitaries laid down their arms under the close watch of the Marines, a spokesman of the Colombian navy said on Monday.
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Colombian president rejects rebel conditions for hostage release
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe rejected on Monday the conditions set by the guerrilla organization, the National Liberation Army (ELN), for the release of a Spanish citizen who was kidnapped along with seven other foreign tourists.
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US Working closely with UK, France and Germany on Iran: US spokesman
The United States said Monday it is working closely with Britain, France and Germany on Iran's nuclear program and the investigation of the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA).
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: COLOMBIA
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Crucial
Reservoir a Guerrilla Bastion
Water
resource studies predict that the
Colombian capital could suffer severe
shortages by 2015 and point to the
Sumapaz high plains, or ”páramo”,
located in the eastern Andes range and a
stronghold of the FARC guerrillas, as a
strategic reservoir. >more
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TRAVEL
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Getting
Intimate with Volcanoes
Mention
getting close to volcanoes, and thoughts
of you being a prospective Bellevue
patient might come to your listener. But
this is becoming a familiar experience
sought after in Costa Rica. Chief among
these experiences is the fireworks of
Arenal Volcano.
Since
the onset of the decade of the 1990s,
Costa Rica has been steadily attracting
visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the
daily eruptions of Arenal Volcano. >more
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