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Crowds fill Avenida Central on a nightly basis
during this last week of Christmas shopping.
By law all Christmas bonuses were to be paid
yesterday, in addition to the regular pay day, made
for perhaps the busiest shopping day for retailers.
[Foto: insidecostarica.com]
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| NEWS |
updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
Free Trade
Agreement Almost Complete
The Bush administration may have suffered a
setback in its effort to forge a
hemisphere-wide free trade agreement, but it
is pushing ahead with a smaller deal that
would cover five Central American countries.
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Costa Rican
Youngest Player to Reach Grand Master Status
Grand
Masters Thomas Luther, of Germany;
Alejandro Ramirez, of Costa Rica; and
Vadim Milov, of Switzerland, scored victories
in the third round Sunday to share the lead in
the 16th annual Carlos Torre Repetto chess
tournament.
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Yes, Virginia,
There Will be Bulls this Year!
Following controversy and doubts if there
Zapote fair would include the "bulls" this
year, the new structure is almost ready and
yes, there will the traditional bulls at the
fair!
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Winter No Over
Yet. Don't Put Away Your Umbrella.
A cold front located in the Gulf of Honduras
is affecting Costa Rica with cold winds and
rains today and tomorrow, though the rain will
not be as heavy as those of the past week that
affected the Caribbean coast, evacuating more
than 2.500 persons.
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Bolivia plagued by
political, social disturbances
More than 100 people
were killed, hundreds injured and many
arrested in the year-long political turmoil
that led to the resignation of Bolivian
President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who took
office on Aug. 6, 2002.
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Mercosur Summit to
discuss regional integration
The 25th Meeting of
South American Common Market (Mercosur)
Council opened here on Monday to discuss
further regional integration and free trade
negotiations with the Andean Community (Ancom).
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Peru's new cabinet
sworn in
Carlos Ferrero was
sworn in on Monday as Peru's prime minister to
replace Beatriz Merino following her
resignation in the wake of a week-long,
rumor-driven scandal.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS |
COLOMBIA:
Communities in Resistance
Javier Sánchez says he owes his life to
a miracle. On July 8, 2000, as 15
heavily armed and hooded paramilitaries
entered La Unión, a
strategically-located village of 500
people in northwest Colombia, Sánchez
had just returned from working the
fields on the far side of town. He
recalls seeing a small army helicopter
circling high above La Unión before
hearing the staccato of automatic rifle
fire.
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