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Monthly Archives: October, 2006

Panamanian Campesinos Urge ‘No’ Vote on Canal Expansion

PANAMA CITY – An organization of Panamanian campesinos this week reiterated a call for their countrymen to vote against the proposed expansion of the...

Costa Rica Association Under Indigenous Control

Kéköldi Wak Ka Koneke is a 24-member civil association set on bringing a few hundred hectares of coastal Talamanca back under indigenous control, protection...

Billions of Migratory Birds Coming Home

Like wealthy retirees who can enjoy summer all year long, the Western Hemisphere’s migrant birds flock south each year as winter approaches, turning October...

Teens Take Sex Ed To Public Libraries

Teenage students from Palmares, northwest of San José, are the latest to receive HIV-AIDS education in their community’s public library thanks to a program...

Country Mourns Former Minister

Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto, a distinguished Costa Rican of national and international repute, passed away Wednesday at dawn. At 82, he had accumulated a long list...

Foreign Residents Return Faulty Immigration Cards

Since the Immigration Administration started handing out “new and improved” identity cards, or cédulas, to foreign residents in February, at least 190 of the...

Officials Announce Plan to Make Barva National Park

As part of a plan to revitalize the northern province Heredia, Barva Volcano will be made into its own national park in 2009, according...

University Leaders Present Education Reform Suggestions

Members of the National Rectors Council (CONARE) Tuesday presented President Oscar Arias and Public Education Minister Leonardo Garnier with recommendations to improve the country’s...

Human Rights Commission Calls for Another Hearing

The Inter-American Human Rights Commission is calling for a second hearing to address complaints of xenophobia and discrimination filed by Nicaragua against Costa Rica,...

Vice-President’s Brother Denies Accusations

Is the Vice-President’s brother a “close personal friend” of George Nayor, an  alleged drug trafficker accused of planning the assassination of Salvadoran President Tony...

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