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Feliz Año Nuevo! Happy New Year! |
A new year is here. And another chance
for us to get it right. Put on your
party hat and raise a toast to good
times. Begin this year new year in a
very special way with your friends
family and loved ones. Feliz Año Nuevo. Felice
anno nuovo. Xin Nian Kuai
Le, GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR!,
Prosit Neujahr,
L'Shannah Tovah, Szczesliwego
Nowego Roku, Sawadee Pee
Mai, and in Canadian,
Happy New Year, eh!
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2010 Full Of Hope
Many in Costa Rica are looking forward to
the new year, a year that his hopefully full
of optimism and prosperity in all sectors.
Or at least a better year than last.
New Year's Day
Domestic Dispute Call Nets Police 246 Kilos
of Cocaine
The war against drug trafficking started
2010 with a bang, with the first
confiscation of the year. The haul of 246
kilos of cocaine came into the hands of the
Fuerza Pública de San Ramón when they
received a call involving a domestic
violence.
97
Violent Deaths Recorded Last Month
The December numbers are in, 97 people lost
their lives violently in Costa Rican in
December, five less than December 2008. The
total number of violent deaths in 2009
closed at 997.
Benefit Concert for Asociación Caritativa
Canadiense, January 20th
Cornell University’s Wind Ensemble (CUWinds)
returns to Costa Rica in January and will
perform a Benefit Concert on January 20th ,
8pm at the Eugene O’Neill theater, North
American Costa Rican Cultural Center in San
Pedro.
Costa Ricans Visit Doctors Often
The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)
reports that Costa Ricans on average visited
a Caja clinic or EBAIS four times during the
past year.
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HONDURAS
Protection for Honduran Journalist Requested
TEGUCIGALPA - The Committee of Relatives of
the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras asked
protection for independent journalist Cesar
Silva, kidnapped and tortured for 24 hours
in an illegal prison.
PANAMA
Panama Marks 10 Years Since Return Of Canal
PANAMA (AFP) - Panama Thursday marked
the 10th anniversary of the end of US
control over the legendary canal linking the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, long considered
one of the world's engineering wonders.
EL SALVADOR
El Salvador Closes 2009 With 12 Murders Per Day
SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador closed 2009 with the highest number of murders in the last 10 years, reaching an historic number of 4.365, according to the PNC national police. Salvadorn authorities confirmed on Saturday day the number of murders in the Central American country averaged 12 daily.
GUATEMALA
Femicide Down Slightly In Guatemala
GUATEMALA - According to Guatemalan Interior Ministry figures released on Saturday, there were fewer women killed in the country in 2009 than in 2008, when 773 women died violent deaths in the Central American country. The 2009 dead toll for women was 708.
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ARGENTINA
Argentine
Archbishop Convicted For Sexual
Abuse
BUENOS AIRES - Argentine cleric gets 8 years
in sex abuse case. An Argentine judge
convicted a former Roman Catholic archbishop
Wednesday of sexually abusing a seminarian
in 1992.
BRAZIL
Lula
da Silva Ends 2009 With A Military Crisis
Over Reviewing The Past
BRASILIA - Brazilian president Lula da Silva
praised as one of the most influential
leaders of the world ends 2009 with a
serious political crisis: the Minister of
Defence and the commanders on the three
services have threatened to resign over the
creation of a “truth commission” to
investigate human rights abuses during the
military dictatorship that extended from
1964 to 1985.
COLOMBIA
Colombian Troops Bomb Rebel Camp
BOGOTA - At least 18 members of Colombia's
biggest rebel army FARC were killed on
Friday during a bombing of their camp,
Colombian Ministry of Defense said.
VENEZUELA
Chavez
Ends 2009 with Great People
Support
CARACAS - Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez reached the end of
2009, supported by 60.3 percent
of his country's citizens,
according to poll results
released this week.
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COLOMBIA: Women
Empowered by Restoring Desertified Land
Indigenous and rural women from
southern Tolima, a province located in the
heart of Colombia, are lending a hand to the
bleak land around them, with the aim of
simultaneously recovering the ecosystem and
regaining their own dignity, in a community
effort that is changing their environment
and their lives.
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Your Photos Could Be Product Placements
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces |
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So What
Is 3G
And Do
You
Really
Need It?
By the
end of
the
year,
Costa
Rica, by
way of
the
Instituto
Costarricense
de
Electricidad
(ICE)
will
join the
rest of
the
world
with the
introduction
of the
3rd
generation,
better
known as
3G,
cellular
network.
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