San José, Costa Rica -    Monday 08 November 2004

1.721 Daily Average Visits in October!

Mexicans protest the opening of Wal-Mart near the Teotihuacan pyramids in October 2004. Wal-Mart's new store near the Teotihuacan pyramids is in hot water with an environmental group who believes the store may be sitting on an archaeological site. Click for larger image!

insidenicaragua A new weekly feature published on Sundays, featuring a summary  of current news and events in Nicaragua.

Calderón Back In Court Today
Following his brief stay in hospital and return to his jail cell, former president Rafael Angel Calderón, will return to court this morning to pick up where his hearing left off on Thursday following his ill health.

Prison Scares Daddy
The young son of a convicted New York con man who's on the lam in Costa Rica said his father will never surrender to authorities because he can't handle the stiff jail sentence.

Time To Pay The Marchamo
Monday November 15 at 8:00am, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS), will begin it's annual collection the payment of the "marchamo" for the country's registered 808.360 vehicles.

Seismic Activity Down in October
The Red Sismológica Nacional (Universidad de Costa Rica) reports 333 earthquakes for the month of October, a 15% decrease from the previous month.

Chavez visits Cuba, Castro appears to be healthy
Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias paid a surprising visit to Cuba and said his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro Ruz appeared to be healthy, local media reported Sunday.

Pharma cos expand in Latin America
India's Domestic pharmaceutical companies are drumming up the beat in the Latin American markets. Ranbaxy Laboratories, Nicholas Piramal, Zydus Cadila, IPCA Laboratories, Ind-Swift Laboratories and a host of others are expanding their operations in this geography in a big way.

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HAITI: Latin America-Led Peacekeeping Operation - A 'Mission Impossible'? Analysts in Latin America are not overly optimistic with respect to the prospect of success for the United Nations peacekeeping mission aimed at stabilising Haiti, in which Brazil and Chile are playing a key role. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's chief foreign policy adviser Marco Aurelio García flew to Haiti on Friday with what appeared to be a mission impossible: bringing the different political and military factions together for talks in order to pave the way for the longed-for stability. The new upsurge of violence in Haiti since Hurricane Jeanne wrought havoc there in September meant it was practically back to zero for the U.N. mission's efforts to stabilise the country on a Security Council mandate issued after the controversial ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29.

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