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Costa Ricans look at a road
washed out by flooding near
Ciudad Neily, approx. 300
kilometers of San José,
Thursday. The National Emergency
Commission issued an alert for
the southern region of Costa
Rica due to heavy rains in the
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Tomorrow:
Our first
Potholes Report. Take
a drive with us from San José to Tamarindo, one of the most popular
beaches in Costa Rica.
14 Cellular Phones Per Hour
Stolen; Thieves Look to Portable
Computers With Changes in
Cellular Network Security
According to the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) 10.000 cellular telephones
a stolen each month. Doing the
math, that means 14 cellular
phones every hour or one phone
stolen every 4.2 seconds.
Train Collides With Bus; Driver Failed Signals
The "tren urbano" - commuter train - began operating the first week in
October, the only incident reported was the mishap between a taxi and
the train in the first hours of operations.
On a Transparent Budget
Costa Rica places first among
eight Latin American countries
analyzed in relation to
transparency in the making of
public budgets.
CORBANA Doubts EU Banana
Consensus
The director of Legal issues
with Corporación Bananera
Naciónal (national banana
corporation) CORBANA in Costa
Rica, Mariano Jiménez, thinks
that the proposed import tariff
does not have the full support
of all European countries, which
would oblige another definition
of the rate.
BWIA To Resume Costa Rica
Flights
Trinidad's Trade and Industry
Minister, Kenneth Valley, said Wednesday that BWIA would start flying to
Costa Rica once again
 
Brazil to be world's leading
biodiesel producer: president
Brazil could produce biodiesel
more cheaply than other
countries and become the world's
leading biodiesel producer,
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva said Friday.
Venezuela: better ties with US
"difficult" under Bush
administration
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali
Rodriguez said Friday that it is
"difficult" to have better
relations with the United States
as long as President George W.
Bush is in.
EU to monitor Venezuelan
parliamentary elections
The European Union (EU) will
send 160 observers to monitor
Venezuela's parliamentary
elections scheduled for Dec. 4,
Jose Albino Silva, head of the
EU mission told reporters
Friday.
Peruvian court approves nine charges for extraditing Fujimori from Chile
Peru's Supreme Court has approved nine charges for extraditing former
President Alberto Fujimori from Chile, officials from the court said
Friday.
BRAZIL:
Changing a City
Name to Facilitate Web Searches
"It's
like advertising one product and
selling another," Brazilian city councillor Djalma Pastorello
summed up in favour of his
proposal to change the name of
his city, Foz do Iguaçu, so as
not to confuse people searching
for it on the Internet.
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