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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Cubans in Exile Comment on Castro’s Illness

For the first time in almost half a century, Cuban leader Fidel Castro did not hold the island’s reins on his birthday Sunday. Instead, Sunday...

Lebanese Consul Discusses Mideast Conflict

The world watched with bated breath this week as more than a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon came...

Mom’s Ordeal Illustrates Problems with System

After giving birth to her third child as a single parent, Carolina Robinson lived a mother’s nightmare. Hospital and child welfare officials judged that her...

1,200 BetonSports Employees Seek New Jobs

As BetonSports’ frequent clients wonder where they will make their next wager, most of the company’s employees are wondering where they will earn their...

Lack of Opportunities Sends Nurses To U.S.

Low salaries, exhausting hours and a lack of job openings for professional nurses in the country’s public health-care system has made recruiting offers from...

Concessionaire Takes Over Main Pacific Port

Costa Rica’s biggest Pacific port has become the first to be taken over by private management, a leap forward in the government’s push to...

Gov’t Updates Inflation, Poverty Indicators

When a basket gets old, like anything else, you throw it out and get a new one. That’s what the National Institute of Statistics and...

Costa Rica, Panama Begin Trade Talks

Costa Rica and Panama kicked off the fourth round of negotiations for a freetrade agreement in San José Tuesday. During the negotiations, which will last...

Poll: Support for CAFTA Declining

The number of Costa Ricans who support the controversial Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) dropped from 61% in October 2005...

Escazú Couple Combines Talents To Produce Picture Marquetry

California-born artist and nature lover Carla Slowiczek has a weakness for orchid, bird-of-paradise and butterfly motifs. These quintessential symbols of Costa Rica are what...

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