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A Cruz
Roja
worker
and his
search
and
rescue
dog
looks
for the
bodies
of
victims
of a
mudslide
near
destroyed
homes in
Atenas.
So far
10
bodies
have
been
recovered
and four
still
missing,
making
the
worst
mudslide
in
recent
history,
in terms
of lost
lost
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Costa Rica Lures Big
Tour Outfits
Several years ago, when
the Chicago-based
Caravan Tours
(800-Caravan or
caravantours.com)
created a 10-day, $995
tour of Costa Rica (not
including airfare there
and back), it attracted
so many bookings that it
is today the largest
single source of
tourists to that Central
American nation.
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Mexican Mabe Buys Costa
Rica's Atlas
Costa Rica's
manufacturer of home
appliances, Atlas
Eléctrica, has been sold
and will soon be in the
hands of Mexican
manufacturer,
Controladora Mabe S.A.,
a subsidiary of
Electrodomésticos Mabeca
S.A.
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Blues in the Boondocks
For the past 25 years I
have been helping people
relocate to Costa Rica.
During that time I have
had the opportunity to
observe where people
settle and how they fare
in different areas of
the country.
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A collection of our best fotos
of news events, people,
happenings in Costa Rica and
more...
click
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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Saturday 13 October
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
10 Bodies Recovered, 4
Still Missing in Atenas
Mudslide
The residents of Bajo
Cacao, en San Isidro de
Atenas are living a
moment of anguish as
search and rescue
workers continue to pull
bodies from the mud and
rubble. The mudslide of
early Thursday morning
has turned the barrio
Fátima de Atenas into a
cemetery.
Number of New Dengue
Cases Drops, Limón
Carnival Still Banned
To date this year,
20.780 cases of Dengue
have been recorded, of
which 239 are
Hemorrhagic Dengue. And
although the number of
new cases has diminished
over the last several
weeks, the ministerio de
Salud (health) officials
are asking for residents
not to let their guard
down.
ICE Advances Sale
of New GSM Lines
Good news for those
waiting for a GSM cellular telephone
line. The Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) announced that it
will offer 300.000 new GSM lines on the
market in December instead of March as
it had announced.
RECOPE Requests Gas
Price Hike
The country woke up to
lower gasoline prices
today as the price of
super and regular
gasolines dropped ¢84
colones and ¢64 colones,
respectively.
Progress In Human
Development
Excepting Talamanca, the
other 80 cantones of
Costa Rica made slow,
but steady, progress in
health, education, and
material well-being in
the last five years. In
spite of the
improvement, poverty and
inequality live along
progress in most of the
cantones.
Chang’s Lab Out of
NASA
Two years after leaving NASA and having
established the firm Ad Astra Rocket,
the Costa Rican-born astronaut Franklin
Chang and his laboratory physically left
the space agency’s facilities.
ICE Announces Increased
Internet Service
Connections
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - the
monopoly on
telecommunications -
said it has signed a
deal with GBM and
Samsung to install and
provide high speed
internet service in more
than 200 communities by
2008.
Panamanians Protests
High Cost of Living
The increase of the cost
of living in Panama has
inspired protests all
over the country.
Bond Investors Take Dim
View of Ortega of
Nicaragua
As far as bond investors
are concerned, President
Daniel Ortega of
Nicaragua is returning
to his Sandinista roots.
Former Salvadoran
General Prosecutor
Murdered
Former Salvadoran
General Prosecutor
Manuel Cordoba
Castellanos was shot by
unknown people in a
residential zone in
Santa Tecla, San
Salvador, as confirmed
by official sources
Friday.
Chavez in Cuba to
Eyeball ALBA Deals
The president of the
Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, Hugo Chavez,
arrived in this capital
for a working visit,
accompanied by several
ministers and notables,
Granma daily reported
Saturday.
Chavez to meet Colombian
rebels in renewed
mediation
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez said Friday
that he will meet with
Colombia's largest rebel
group, the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC), in the
forthcoming days in
renewed efforts to
mediate a swap deal.
Nicaragua's Back Street
Abortions
An estimated 20
million unsafe abortions
are carried out every
year around the world.
They are a major cause
of avoidable deaths
among pregnant women,
not least in Nicaragua
where abortion is
illegal.
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13 October 2007 |
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