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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

It’s Looking a Lot Like Christmas –And It Has for Weeks

Where to find holiday decorations? Where not? For the past month or so, any moderately attentive person could walk around San José blindfolded and bump into any number...

Debate over Tourism Bond Law Suspended

MANAGUA After another year of intense legislative lobbying, anxious pacing and perhaps a bit of praying, boosters of the Tourism Investment Bond (BIT) Law...

Deaths from Bad Meds in Panama Exceed 200

PANAMA CITY – The number of people who have died after consuming tainted medications produced by Panama’s CSS social-security agency may exceed 200, according...

Salvadoran Church Calls for New Murder Probe

SAN SALVADOR – The legal-aid office of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador is seeking to reopen the case of a December, 1981 massacre...

2006: Another Bloody Year in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY – At least 59 police officers have been killed so far this year in Guatemala, four of them in the past six...

18-Story Downtown Casino Project Draws Fire

If a group of U.S. investors has its way, Costa Rica’s historic National Theater and Culture Plaza will become neighbors to a gargantuan, 18-story,...

UNA Study: Bureacracy Inhibits Fight against Poverty

An Universidad Nacional (UNA) study found that Costa Rica’s state bureaucracy works against the government’s attempt to fight poverty. The study, by the School of...

Presidential Summit Scheduled for Next Week

The region’s Presidents will descend upon San José Dec. 16 for a summit of the Central American Integration System (SICA). Three days of technical...

Strong Winds Whip Through Central Valley

Unusually strong gusts of wind as fast as 70 kilometers per hour lashed through the Central Valley Monday and Tuesday. Winds this speed are...

Activist Appeals Ban on Gay, Bisexual Blood Donors

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) this week accepted a lawsuit arguing that a 16-year-old decree that prohibits homosexual and bisexual...

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