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Friday 23 November
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Less Colones
Needed To Buy Dollars
The move by the Banco
Central de Costa Rica (BCCR)
- Central Bank - to
change the low and high
bands of the exchange
rate meant an instant
pay raise for salaried
employees earning in
colones. Salaried
employees earning in
dollars, however, got a
pay drop.
Costa Rica To
Nicaragua: Dispute To Continue in
International Court; Debt Cannot Be
Forgiven
Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, met
Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, in
Costa Rica yesterday to discuss a number
of mutual issues, one of them being the
dispute over Costa Rican police
patrolling the San Juan river.
Costa Rican Truckers
Block Panamanian Border
Members of the Costa
Rican Chamber of Unitarian Truckers have
blocked the Panamanian border to demand
that Oscar Arias' government change the
traffic law and reduce diesel prices
Major Drug Dealer
at 15
At the young of only 15
he is the head of a drug gang that
employed men more than twice his age to
carry out his crimes.
Costa Rican Residents
Help Turtle Population
Grow on Pacific Beach
Early every morning
between July and
December, some 260
neighbors of Ostional
beach dedicate
themselves to taking
care of one of the only
nesting grounds for the
lora turtle.
Iran Arranges
Costa Rica Test
Iran has arranged a
soccer friendly with Costa Rica as part
of their preparations for the start of
the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.
Nicaraguan Government
Counters Rise in Prices
The Nicaraguan
Government removed
import tariff to several
basic products and
started to sell beans at
lower than market prices
to curb the rise in food
prices.
Nicaraguan court blocks
law aimed at keeping
citizen councils out of
federal government
A Nicaraguan appeals
court Wednesday blocked
a recently approved law
designed to keep
President Daniel Ortega
from creating citizen
councils as part of his
government.
Guatemala May Lead
Caribbean States
Guatemala Foreign
Affairs Vice Minister
Luis Fernando Andrade
has been proposed as
General Secretary of the
Caribbean States
Association (ACS).
Brazil's
Police Arrest Gang
Members Ked by
Imprisoned Drug Lord
Brazil's Federal Police
arrested on Thursday
members of a gang
allegedly led by an
imprisoned drug lord.
Venezuela Denounces
Anti-Reform Drive
Venezuelan National
Assembly Vice President
Roberto Hernandez
exposed a campaign of
lies on Thursday
concerning the
constitutional reform
project to be voted at a
referendum on December
2.
A
Confusing Thanksgiving
in Panama
I had been
thinking long and hard
about my invention of a
toothbrush that you
don't have to throw
away, with bristles of
such resistance that
they simply don't wear
old, when I realized it
was November 22nd which,
in the United States, is
the day that fat people
gorge themselves on yams
and turkeys and
cranberries, all in the
name of some Indians or
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¢496.64 |
¢505.15 |
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B.C.C.R.
23 November 2007 |
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