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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Central America Advances in Trade, Violent Crime Grows

Most of Central America took a giant step toward increased economic integration this year with the start of the Central American Free Trade Agreement...

Macroeconomic Numbers on Right Track

With exports topping $1 billion for the first time ever, record levels of foreign reserves, and a dwindling foreign debt, Nicaragua’s macroeconomic indicators suggest...

2006: A Dark Year for Country’s Continued Energy Crisis

It was a dark year for embattled powerdistribution company Unión Fenosa, which couldn’t manage to keep the lights on long enough to find its...

Contentious Year for Environmentalists

For environmentalists, 2006 was a year of mixed signals, tough talk and myopic emergency decrees by government officials. Topping this year’s list of environmental concerns...

Tourism Grew About 10% in 2006

Calculations for 2006 show that tourism is expected to have grown by 10% this year, totaling 773,398 foreign visitors, according to preliminary numbers provided...

Activists Fight to Reverse Therapeutic Abortion Ban

Nicaragua became part of a dubious short list of countries in the world to outlaw all forms of abortion this year, when lawmakers and...

Daniel Ortega Stole the Headlines in 2006

On Feb. 27, 1990, two days after being voted out of office, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega delivered a concession speech entitled “The Revolution Cannot...

Tech Institute Director Joins CAFTA Protests

In person, Eugenio Trejos, director of the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITEC), is civil and soft-spoken. You wouldn’t know that, however, if you saw...

Costa Rica President Arias: Pinochet’s Death Offers Reconciliation

President Oscar Arias this week expressed his condolences to the family of recently deceased former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, and said the former dictator’s...

Manual Recount Yields New Municipal Results

Those who believe manual recounts are just a formality – or that a few voters can’t make a difference – would be hardpressed to...

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