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San
José, Costa Rica - Tuesday 14 December 2004
RECORD!
1.863
Average Daily Visitors in November. Click here for the
details!
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Comptroller Beheaded!
Following a long and hardous
battle between the differing
Legislators and public opinion,
Monday, Alex Solís Fallas, was
removed as Contralor General de
la República (Comptroller
General) and a copy of his file
used by the special commission
was sent to the Ministerio
Público for a closer examination
by the judicial body.
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Medical
Certificates for Driver's
Licenses to Change
Want a Costa Rican driver's
license? Or needing to renew
one? Well, come next year, in an
agreement between the Colegio de
Médicos (College of Medicine)
and the Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes (MOPT),
the requirement to get a
driver's license will be a
little stricter, changing the
current practice to obtain a
medical certificate.
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Tourism Up
20%
The Cámara Nacional de Turismo (Canatur)
announced that, though
conditions are not that great,
the tourism sector say a 20%
increase this year.
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Coastal
Land Prices Continue to Rise
Property prices along the
northern Pacific coast continued
to soar in the past 12 months,
with realtors reporting in some
cases prime oceanfront real
estate almost doubling in price.
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Japan
interested in widening Panama
Canal
Japan is interested in widening
the Panama Canal, said visiting
Japanese congressman Takeo
Hiranuma, local media reported
Monday.
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Pinochet
indicted for kidnappings,
homicide
Judge Juan Guzman of the
Santiago Court of Appeals on
Monday declared the indictment
of former Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet for his
involvement in nine kidnappings
and a homicide in the Condor
Operation.
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Cuba to
Become Hornet´s Nest if Invaded
Revolutionary Armed Forces
Minister Raul Castro asserted
that Cuba would become a huge
hornet´s nest if any enemy dared
attack it.
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RIGHTS-GUATEMALA:
Net Closes
Around Ex-Torturer in Mexico
”He's a thug and a killer and
must pay for his atrocious
crimes,” Guatemalan Nobel Peace
laureate Rigoberta Menchú told
IPS, referring to former
Guatemalan interior minister
Donaldo Alvarez, who the police
are searching for in Mexico in
connection with the murders of
dozens of Guatemalans, including
Menchú's father, who were killed
in the 1970s and 1980s.
Over the weekend, the Mexican
police began to seek Alvarez,
who has lived between Mexico and
the United States since 1983, in
response to an arrest warrant
and extradition request from
Spain, where he is wanted in the
courts for the deaths of at
least seven Spanish citizens in
Guatemala.
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