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Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Former AG Warns ‘War on Corruption’ is a Farce

Six short years after former President Enrique Bolaños announced his much-ballyhooed war on corruption – a government house-cleaning that was supposed to usher in...

Oriental Marketplace Still Digging Out

MANAGUA – A billowing pillar of grey smoke could be seen twirling into the night sky several blocks from her cosmetic shop, but Olga...

PIs Have Eyes for You

It was gut-check time. With an off-duty, armed Judicial Investigation Police officer backing him up, the private investigator fronted two Colombian hit men sent...

Officials Get Into the Zone

PLAYAS DEL COCO, Guanacaste This Pacific coastal town is setting the tone for an increasingly hard-line stance on Costa Rica s Maritime Zone (ZMT)...

Boy George, Juanes set to play in Costa Rica

    Eighties pop legend Boy George and Latin sensation Juanes are scheduled to make stops in the Central Valley.   Boy George (real name is George Alan...

Arias urges EU to sign on to Central America partnership

  BRUSSELS – Costa Rican President Oscar Arias urged European countries yesterday to swiftly sign a pending trade partnership agreement with Central America and to...

100-day Caribbean city police sweep bears fruit; some towns left out

  It's the third month of a 100-day saturation sweep of Costa Rica's Carribean Limón province, and authorities say the results have been “surprising.”   The operation,...

High food prices propel Costa Rica inflation past 15%

  Fed by high food costs, consumer prices in August rose 1.79 percent, adding to Costa Rica's steady inflationary rate that during the past year...

Nicaragua gov’t assigns schoolchildren daily national anthem

  The Nicaraguan government has called for students at public and private schools to sing the national anthem daily.   Education Minister Miguel De Castilla made the...

Costa Rica could feel ‘indirect’ effects from Hanna

  As Costa Rican emergency officials dropped the Yellow Alert they had raised last week for Hurricane Gustav, weather analysts here suggested residents carry big...

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