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Chile's
President
Michelle
Bachelet
greets
Costa
Rica's
President
Oscar
Arias in
Santiago
during
the
opening
ceremony
of the
XVII
Iberoamerican
Summit
in
Santiago,
Chile
Thursday.
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Panama & Costa Rica Real
Estate Map
Panama City, Panama (PRWEB)
- Swiss Panama Group,
Corp. operators of
Encuentra24.com and
Inmobiliaria24.com
announced yesterday the
recent inclusion of a
new map location search
tool for Panama and
Costa Rica properties
listed in both websites.
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With Costa Rica's mail,
it's address unknown
Pity the poor Costa
Rican postman. Sure, he
doesn't have to deal
with sleet or snow. But
consider what passes for
an address here: From
the Tibas cemetery, 200
meters south, 300 meters
west, cross the train
tracks, white two-story
house.
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A collection of our best fotos
of news events, people,
happenings in Costa Rica and
more...
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here!
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People Words
Spanish like
English has different names for different people. By learning the words
below you will increase your vocabulary, comprehension and language fluency.
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Friday 09 November
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Hemorrhagic Dengue
Unstoppable Health Officials Say
According to the Ministerio de Salud
(Health Ministry) the hemorrhagic dengue
epidemic is unstoppable. So far this
year, 288 people have fallen ill and
eight deaths confirmed, four of which
were under three years of age.
Higher Gasoline Prices
In Effect Today
Costa Ricans woke up to
higher gasoline prices
this morning as the
latest round of price
increases took effect at
the stroke of midnight.
Serial Rapist
Behind Bars
Riding his Vespa scooter, a man
identified by only his last name, Dávila,
would run around San José zeroing in on
is next victim, mostly adolescent girls,
which he would easily sweet talk them to
his final goal of raping his victim.
PAHO Chooses Costa Rica
For Pilot Program
The Pan-American Health
Organization (PAHO) has
chosen the Hospital
Nacional de Niños
(Children's Hospital)
for its pilot program,
hoping to implement it
in other Latin American
countries if the Costa
Rican program is
successful.
Accident Causes Downtown
Power Black Out
A worker earning his
day's pay received an
electrical jolt of
14.000 watts while
trying to install a
water piple in the area
near the Hospital Rafael
Ángel Calderón Guardia
in downtown San José,
causing a blackout that
lasted almost three
hours.
Former Patient in
Nicaragua Walk
A man who has suffered
three major heart
attacks has walked
across Nicaragua to
raise money for charity.
Clinton Opposes
Colombia, Panama Trade
Deals
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) -
Democratic presidential
front-runner Sen.
Hillary Clinton said on
Thursday she opposes
pending free trade
agreements with
Colombia, Panama and
South Korea, but would
vote for a pact with
Peru.
Salvadorans Rush for
U.S. Citizenship
Increasing political
restrictions against
Latin American
immigrants in the United
States have moved more
than 145 thousand
Salvadorans to request
citizenship in that
country in the last 10
years.
Venezuela Reform
Defenders for Talk
"Yes" defenders in the
constitutional reform
project of Venezuela
place dialogue as a main
tool for discussion of
differences on Thursday,
to promote the
initiative for changes.
Democracy, Social
Security Dominate Ibero
American Summit Agenda
Democracy and social
security are at the top
of the agenda at the
17th Ibero American
Summit which opened
Thursday in Chile's
capital Santiago.
COLOMBIA:
Pawns of War - The
Hostage Crisis
"Mr. President, we who
are going to die send
you our greetings." The
Sept. 26, 2006 message,
addressed to Colombian
President Álvaro Uribe,
came from a hostage held
by the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC), along with
eleven other provincial
legislators, since April
2002.
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