San
José, Costa Rica - Wednesday 15 December 2004
RECORD!
1.863
Average Daily Visitors in November. Click here for the
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Taxi
Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden
Mask
Osama bin Laden take note: You
wouldn't be safe in Costa Rica!
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No
Children in the Bull Rings, PANI
asks
If
PANI - the child welfare agency
- has it's way, in less than 10
days, the favourite sport of "Toros
a la Tica" at the annual Zapote
fair will see no children
running onto the bullring in
front of the bulls.
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Changes in
the Law With Respect to Minors
According to the report, Mario
Víquez, Defensor de la Niñez,
tells the story of a 13 year old
girl who entered a common law
relationship with her sixth
grade school teacher and later
married with the consent of the
parents of the minor.
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British
Businessman Murdered
A British businessman, Thomas
Purvis, 45, from Durham, was
discovered stabbed to death at
his home in Sabana Sur, west of
San José Monday.
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Calls
Through to Nicaragua Blocked
Calls to cellular phones in
neighbouring Nicaragua have been
blocked since last Friday. Each
month more than 1.2 million
calls to cellular phones in
Nicaragua for a total billing of
us$462.000 dollars.
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Faced with
US Threats, Cuba Flexes Military
Muscle
Having successfully passed its
first day of military maneouvres,
Cuba will carry on Tuesday its
Strategic Bastion 2004 War
Games, conceived as a deterrent
to eventual military attacks on
the island from the United
States.
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Nicaraguan
Authorities Seize 200 Kilograms
of Cocaine
About 200 kilograms of cocaine
were confiscated at the Peñas
Blancas border post, in the
boundary with Costa Rica, the
Nicaraguan police´s press office
informed Tuesday.
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Lukewarm
Domestic Welcome to Pinochet’s
Indictment
Little domestic political
repercussion has had the arrest
and indictment of ex Chilean
dictator Augusto Pinochet
compared to previous verdicts
and international impact.
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Central
America Looking to Open Borders
Central American nations are
putting aside border bickering
to allow the relatively free
movement of people and goods
between nations -- a goal that
has U.S. officials worried about
a jump in smuggling of drugs and
people in a region already
plagued by crime and on the
lookout for terrorists.
Wary of concerns but determined
to operate as a regional bloc,
leaders from Mexico to Panama
will work out the plan Wednesday
when they meet in this
Salvadoran capital. Border
controls have already been
simplified between Guatemala and
El Salvador and officials will
be discussing how to add
Honduras and Nicaragua.
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