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San
José, Costa Rica - Friday 26 November 2004
1.721
Average Daily Visitors in October. Click here for the
details!
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Poverty On The Increase
According to a study by the
Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples
del Instituto Nacional de
Estadísticas y Censos (INEC),
42.000 Costa Rican families were
added to the "poverty" list.
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Health Ministry Will Distribute
600.000 Condoms
The
Ministerio de Salud (Health
Ministry) has made a purchase of
600.000 condoms that it will
distribute free of charge in the
coming year in it's battle to
reduce AIDS in the country.
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Rodríguez Is Hurt; Calderón
Uses Internet For His Message
Former president,
Miguel Angel Rodríguez, who is
preventive detention for six
months for his part in the
ICE-Alcatel scandal and for
receiving monies from the
government of Taiwan while in
office, accused current
president Abel Pacheco for
"condemning" him before his day
in court.
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Fifteen Universities Not
Authorized
Costa Rica has 50 private
universities and 75 campuses
that are authorized to function,
however, it has been discovered
that 15 others don't, which
could mean that degrees from
those unlicensed universities
may be worthless.
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Exodus and Return
With
24-hour operations at the ports
of arrival and border crossings,
as well as more control at
"blind" spots used by illegal
immigrants, mainly in the border
with Nicaragua, the Costa Rican
Immigration Service is making
efforts to cope with the usual
crisis it faces every December
and January.
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Taxi Fares
Going Up
Taxi fares are going up next
week as the Autoridad
Reguladora de los Servicios
Públicos (Aresep) approved a
7.11% increase.
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Cuba, Spain resume official
contact
Cuba and Spain resumed official
contact Thursday, said Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe
Perez. After a meeting with Spanish Ambassador
Carlos Zaldivar, Perez said, "I have summoned the
Spanish ambassador to Havana to inform... we're
resuming official contact."
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Colombian court approves
extraditing paramilitary leaders to US
The Colombian Supreme Court on Wednesday approved
the extradition of two top paramilitary leaders and
an imprisoned rebel leader to the United States.
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Brazilian landless activists
surround central bank
Over 8,000 Brazilian landless
activists on Thursday surrounded the central bank,
threatening to grab more land next year unless they
get more public money to speed up land reform.
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RIGHTS-LATIN AMERICA:
Women - the Invisible Victims
Latin America and the Caribbean
have up-to-date statistics on
inflation, trade, GDP growth and
other economic indicators. But
there are few to no hard figures
on violence against women, a
problem that reportedly affects
as many as four or five women
out of 10 in the region.
With a few exceptions like
Mexico and Chile, there is a
”blackout” surrounding the
issue, Sonia Montaño, the head
of the Economic Commission for
Latin America and the
Caribbean's (ECLAC) Women and
Development Unit, told IPS.
That is because ”violence
against women is hidden, and is
not a priority for the public
and political agendas, except on
days like today,” she said,
referring to the fact that Nov.
25 is the International Day for
the Elimination of Violence
Against Women. more
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