San
José, Costa Rica - Sunday 19 December 2004
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Editor's note:
A
Happy and Safe holiday season to
one and all. Today is the last
'regular' edition of
insidecostarica.com for this
year. We will be publishing a
special edition, a round up of
the year 2004, on Thursday
December 30 and then returning
with the daily news on January
4, 2005. Thank you for your
support.
Former
Presidents on Visiting Day at La
Reforma Prison
The La Reforma prison in
Alajuela was the site of much
activity yesterday as former
presidents Miguel Angel
Rodríguez and Rafael Angel
Calderón both received visits.
 more
The "El
Gordo" Tonight
Bought your lottery ticket? No?
You still have a chance at the
"El Gordo".
more
What's
Open During the Holidays?
The holiday season is upon us,
with most government offices
closing their doors until
January, while others staying
open for most of the coming week
and then closed well into the
second week of January.
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553
Colombian paramilitaries lay
down arms
A total of 553 paramilitaries of
the far-right United
Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
(AUC) laid down their arms
Saturday in southwestern
Colombia.
more
Colombia
grants US extradition request
for 4 nationals
Colombia agreed to extradite
four citizens, including a
woman, to the United States for
the accusations of drug
trafficking and money
laundering, the authorities said
Saturday.
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Argentina's Menem wants to run
for president in 2007
Former Argentine President
Carlos Menem said Saturday that
he wants to participate in the
presidential elections in 2007. more
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One of
Every Five Children Suffers From
Hunger in Bolivia, Ecuador and
Peru
To
be poor and indigenous and live
in marginal sectors on city
edges or in rural zones in the
sierra and the altiplano is an
almost certain recipe for hunger
in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. In
the Andean subregion, one of
every five children suffers from
chronic malnutrition (low height
for age between 0-5 years),
according to a study presented
today by the Economic Commission
for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World
Food Programme (WFP) in Quito,
Ecuador.
The summary of the document
Hambre y desigualdad en los
países andinos (Hunger and
Inequality in Andean Countries)
reveals that 27% of the children
in Bolivia, 26% in Ecuador, 25%
in Peru and 14% in Colombia
suffer this scourge. The study
also found that conditions have
worsened in recent years.
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