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Monthly Archives: June, 2008

Who Funds Red Cross? What Does It Do?

“I was telling my husband that emergency services are provided by the Red Cross in Costa Rica, and he told me that was not...

Tico Junior Surfers 12th at World Championships

The national junior surf team last weekend rose two ranking spots to 12 out of 28 countries when the International Surfing Association (ISA) announced...

Inter-American Highway reopens for daytime traffic

Workers reopened Costa Rica's Inter-American Highway South yesterday morning, but only for daytime traffic and just one lane in some sections. Motorists can use...

Volcano spews ash, incandescent rock in Costa Rica

Costa Rica's Arenal Volcano spewed a cloud of ash and an avalanche of incandescent rock Tuesday, the Volcanology and Seismology Observatory (OVSICORI)...

Hunger strike spawns growing anti-Ortega protest in Nicaragua

MANAGUA – As the popular protest movement grows in the streets against President Daniel Ortega, sparked by the continued hunger strike by legendary guerrilla...

Last CAFTA bill goes fast track in Costa Rica

Lawmakers applied a fast-track procedure yesterday to the last bill required to implement the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA). After days of intense...

Costa Rica adds new ID, phone number for immigration

The almost two-year freeze on renewing permanent resident cards is over, Costa Rican Immigration announced this week. As of Monday, foreigners can begin requesting...

UNICEF: Latin America’s armed violence is ‘epidemic’

Latin America's problem with armed violence has reached “epidemic proportions,” according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Nils Kastberg, UNICEF's regional director for Latin...

Banana exporters ask E.U. for major tariff cut

Costa Rica's National Banana Corporation (CORBANA) will ask the European Union to slice tariffs by more than half to end “discriminatory” trade...

Costa Rica’s route to Caribbean reopens; Inter-American South still closed

Costa Rica's Caribbean-bound Braulio Carrillo Highway reopened yesterday at 1:30 p.m. after transit officials had closed it Monday afternoon because of landslides,...

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