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Miss Costa Rica Mundo 2005, Leonora
Jimenez Monge, 22, was crowned Miss Asia Pacific International 2005
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National Holiday Tomorrow,
Batalla de Rivas
Tomorrow, Monday, April 11, is
one of those many strange holidays in Costa Rica. Not strange because it
is a holiday or strange for the holiday itself, but strange for how it
is celebrated and who gets to celebrate it.
American Tourists Left Without Passports and
Money in La Fortuna Break In
Thieves lest eight American
tourists without their passports, money, cameras and other personal
items on Friday, who were visiting the small town community of La
Fortuna de San Carlos.
Inflation 13.61 Percent
The cumulate inflation for the
12 months that ended in March
- when consumer prices in Costa
Rica went 0.83 percent up - was
13.61 percent, the second
highest peak in the last 7
years, after it reached 13.78
percent in September 2004.
Intel's Financial Center
Intel plans to open a financial
services hub in Costa Rica next
year, which will concentrate all
of the accounting operations of
the corporation in the
continent, including the United
States.
Miss Costa Rica crowned Miss Asia Pacific Int’l
‘05
Miss Costa Rica Mundo 2005,
Leonora Jimenez Monge, 22, was crowned Miss Asia Pacific International
2005 at the finals in China yesterday April 9.
LATIN AMERICA
Venezuela welcomes withdrawal of
Flores' bid to head OAS
The Venezuelan government
welcomed on Saturday the
decision of former Salvadoran
President Francisco Flores to
leave the race for Secretary
General of the Organization of
American States (OAS).
Road accident in Nicaragua kills
3
At least three people were
killed and 56 others injured
Saturday when a bus fell into a
ravine in northern Nicaragua.
7 killed in northwestern Mexico
Seven people, including three
children, were murdered and four
others kidnapped over the
weekend in the northwestern
Mexican state of Baja
California, police reported on
Saturday.
Case of Five Cuban Jailed in US Denounced in
Madrid
An energetic denounciation of
the terrible conditions five Cubans jailed in the US for fighting
terrorism are undergoing has been made by Olga Salanueva, the wife of
one of these political prisoners.
SPECIAL REPORTS
COLOMBIA:
Indians Negotiate Reparations for Damages Caused
by Dam
Marta Domicó, a 20-year-old
Embera-Katío Indian, weaves beaded necklaces near the gate of an old
brick mansion in the Bogotá city centre that is the headquarters of the
Colombian National Indigenous Organisation (ONIC, in Spanish), and where
she has been living, crammed in with some 450 members of her indigenous
community, since Dec. 22.
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