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With
The New Year Comes A Wave of
Price Increases
The new year is here and so is a
wave of price increases for
services like taxis, buses,
gasoline, water and electricity.
All increases were approved by
the Autoridad Reguladora de los
Servicios Públicos (Aresep) in
2009 and take effect in the new
year.
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NICARAGUA
Nicaragua: Disability Studies Continued
MANAGUA - Cuban-Nicaraguan brigade All with
Voice continues the study to identify the
causes of the disability of 10 percent of
the population of the Central American
country.
HONDURAS
Honduras Reports 212 Deaths During New Year
Celebrations
TEGUCIGALPA -
At least 212 people died of violence during
the New Year celebrations, Honduran police
spokesman Orlin Cerrato said Monday during a
press conference.
HONDURAS
Honduran Teachers on Strike
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran teachers went
on strike demanding to collect off the
arrears and rejected a disposition of facto
regime to put forward the beginning of the
course.
GUATEMALA
Deputies Absent from Guatemalan Congress
GUATEMALA - The Congress of Guatemala fulfilled on Monday just half its objective for these first days of 2010, as doors opened to the public, but deputies were absent.
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BOLIVIA
Bolivia Refuses To Be U.S. Slave: VP
LA PAZ - The Bolivian government said on
Monday that it refuses to blindly cater to
the economic or political desires of the
United States.
ECUADOR
Ecuador Defends Its Commercial Ties With
Iran
QUITO, - Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Fander
Falconi on Monday defended his country's
diplomatic and commercial ties with Iran.
BRAZIL
Mudslide Kills 85 So Far in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO
- Brazil's flood mudslide death toll rose to
85 and is expected to rise further as five
people were still reported missing, local
authorities said late on Monday,.
CUBA
Cuba Ends
2009 with 4.8 Infant Mortality
Rate
HAVANA - Cuba ended 2009 with
4.8 infant mortality rate per
1000 live births, the second
lowest child mortality in the
Americas, amid a pandemic
scourge, caused by the influenza
flu A H1N1 virus.
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HONDURAS: Entrenched
Corruption Stymies Hope
Corruption in Honduras has taken root at
every level of the state, which is helpless
to combat it because of the lack of
credibility of most of its institutions, the
erosion of social capital and the public
perception that the problem is here to stay.
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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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