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Monday 03 December 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Curridabat-Zapote
Tunnel Cheaper Than Surface Road, Study
Reveals
The Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) is
studying a proposal to built an
underground tunnel of 3 kilometres
between Curridabat and Zapote, part of
the San José - Cartago corridor on the
east side of San José.
Smell of Aguinaldo
In The Air
A walk through downtown
San José, the malls and other commercial
centres, already gives one the feeling
that the extra cash that will be in hand
starting this week is already starting
to be spent.
$1.4 Billion in Oil
The fuel bill for Costa
Rica this year will
reach a record us$1.4
billion, some us$163.8
million more than last
year, when it was
us$1,249 million.
Prospecting For Oil
China plans to prospect
Costa Rica for oil, as
part of a bilateral
alliance in the
hydrocarbon sector.
$40 Million Marina
The first marina in the
Costa Rica Caribbean
will cost us$40 million
and will have 398
berths, according to
Grupo Caribe
Internacional.
Israel to Establish
Plane Repair Centre in
Panama
The leading company of
the Israeli military
industrial complex will
establish a plane repair
centre in Panama, and an
aeronautical academy,
Panama's daily, La
Prensa, reported on
Sunday.
Jurisdiction Ruling in
Nicaragua-Colombia Row
Dec 13
The U.N.'s International
Court of Justice (ICJ)
will rule on December 13
whether it has
jurisdiction to decide a
border dispute between
Nicaragua and Colombia
over a tiny group of
Caribbean islands.
Colombia Rules Out
Venezuelan President's
Returning to Rebel
Mediation
Colombia on Sunday ruled
out a return to
mediation for
neighboring Venezuela's
President Hugo Chavez
and Colombian senator
Piedad Cordoba, the
Colombian government
high commissioner for
peace Luis Carlos
Restrepo told reporters
on Sunday.
US Interference in
Venezuela Unacceptable:
La Jornada
The interference of the
US in Venezuelan
domestic affairs
constitutes an
unacceptable attempt of
rejecting the principle
of free determination of
peoples, Mexican paper
La Jornada affirms
Sunday.
Fidel Castro Nominated
as Candidate for
National Assembly
Cuban leader Fidel
Castro was officially
nominated as a candidate
for the next National
Assembly on Sunday, a
move to keep him in
power for another five
years, the country's
national TV said.
Another Step Forward in
Cuban General Elections
Preparations for general
elections next 20th
January will be taken a
step further today, when
delegates at Municipal
level will nominate
candidates for
provincial assemblies
and deputies to the
National Assembly of the
People s Power.
Nicaraguans Find "USA"
in Booming Costa Rica
"I'm Saved," reads a
sign, in Spanish,
outside a tin shack in a
garbage-strewn slum in
the Costa Rican capital.
Then, "USA in Costa
Rica." The crude
sign expresses a
sentiment that is a
reality for the hundreds
of thousands of
Nicaraguans who have
migrated to Costa Rica,
which for them is a
nearer and much more
attainable promised land
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