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Friday 16 April 2004

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Costa Rica Hotter Than Hawaii
Vacationers with loads of money are venturing to Central America, report travel agents who specialize in catering to the first class set. But Hawaii was their second most requested active/adventure destination for families in 2003.  >more

Population Grows Old
The population of Costa Rica is growing old and, according to experts, it will be even more so in 10 years.  >more

Equality in Employment
Both men and women experienced the same growth rate in employment last year, 0.1 percent, according to the International Labor Organization.  >more

Cocaine in Shampoo
An African, identified only by his family name, Hanes, who had arrived from Venezuela, was arrested at Juan Santamaria International Airport when he was ready to board a flight for Zurich, Switzerland.  >more

Suspects Accused of Smuggling Heroin
A group of suspects from Cleveland, Ohio, is accused of smuggling heroin from Costa Rica to Northeast Ohio and peddling it to street dealers.  >more

Nicaragua: Long-Awaited Justice
Women win pesticide lawsuit but payday still years away. A Nicaraguan court in early March ordered Shell Chemical, Dole Food and Standard Fruit companies to pay a group of women US$82.9 million in fines in a lawsuit brought by campesinas made chronically ill by the use of the pesticide Nemagon on banana plantations in the 1970s. >more

Cuba welcomes US investment in oil exploration
Cuba welcomes US investment in inland and offshore oil exploration and exploitation, the Cuban Basic Industry Ministry said Thursday.  >more


US technicians visit nuclear installations in Brazil
US technicians of the Brazil-United States Permanent Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation began a visit to the nuclear installations in the state of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.  >more

 


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Spanish like English has different names for different people.  By learning the words below you will increase your vocabulary, comprehension and language fluency. >more

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SPECIAL REPORTS
Guantanamo Issue Took Two Years to Reach UN Commission
The situation of some 660 prisoners living in legal limbo at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo was brought up by Havana Thursday before the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, shortly after a resolution condemning Cuba's human rights record narrowly passed.

The Cuban delegation urged the Commission, the highest U.N. authority on human rights, to investigate the conditions in which the non-U.S. citizens of around 40 different nationalities are being held.  Most of the men, who the United States describes as Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, have been held at Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba since January 2002.  >more



 
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