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Two More
Bodies Recovered Thursday
Officials said Thursday they
have discovered two bodies from
the crash of a small plane that
had carried U.S. and Canadian
skydivers.
Pacheco Criticizes Media For
Attacks on Him
Last night, in a national
address on television and radio,
President Abel Pacheco began his
attack against the collective
media for the persecution
campaign against him and for
discrediting him in the past
week.
Canadian Arrested For Drug
Smuggling
A 29 year old Canadian woman was
arrested by the Policía de
Control de Drogas (PCD) at the
Juan Santamaría airport in San
José when it was discovered that
she was hiding drugs - heroin
and cocaine - in her travel
bags.
Costa
Rican Coffee Gets Good Prices
The price of Costa Rican coffee
in general remains at 15% to 25%
above the average quote at the
New York Stock Exchange, thanks
to sales to a little under half
of it to high-quality markets,
according to the Costa Rican
Coffee Institution (ICAFE).
Man Chains Himself to Post
Saying He Was Scammed
Michael Lee Rouco, a 45 year old
American, living in Naranjo
chained himself to a light post
on Wednesday to protest that an
architect scammed him of
us$56.000 dollars.
Court Upholds Ericsson Contract
Costa Rica's Constitutional
Court (Sala IV) has thrown out a
lawyer's attempt to annul a
us$130 million contract awarded
to Ericsson by telecom monopoly
ICE and approved by the
comptroller, for the
installation of a new GSM
network.
U.S. Wary of Costa Ricans
The Americans expect a stiff
challenge from the Costa Ricans
for the World Cup qualifier
against Costa Rica tomorrow.
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