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Institute Responds to U.S. Outsourcing Boom

IN the coming years, call centers andrelated businesses are expected to generate6,000 new jobs in Costa Rica; and theNational Training Institute (INA) is takingsteps...

Riverside Condominiums Near Completion

AFTER facing heavy scrutiny bymunicipal officials and neighbors, theRiverside Condominiums project inEscazú, southwest of San José, is scheduledto open within a month in compliancewith...

Honduras Stiffens Anti-Gang Law

TEGUCIGALPA(EFE) – Honduras’parliament on Jan. 19 passed a new lawdesigned to lock up for decades young peopleconvicted of mere membership in astreet gang.Pressed by...

Indians Remember 1932 Massacre in El Salvador

IZALCO – The few in this westernSalvadoran town who remember thewholesale slaughter of Indians by the anti-Communist military regime in 1932 are intheir 90s...

El Salvador Begins Construction of New Port

LA UNIÓN (EFE) – SalvadoranPresident Elías “Tony” Saca this weekinaugurated construction of a new $170million mega-port project on the Gulf ofFonseca, which, when completed,...

Police Arrest 9 M.S. Gang Members in Miami

MIAMI (EFE) – Miami police thisweek arrested nine members of CentralAmerica’s violent Mara Salvatrucha(M.S.) street gang for their alleged linksto murders and robberies in...

Guatemala Fires Striking Air-Traffic Controllers

GUATEMALA CITY (EFE) – Airtraffic in this northernmost CentralAmerican nation returned to normal Jan.13 after the government fired its strikingcontrollers and replaced them with...

Solar Eclipse Coming in April

THE year’s first solar eclipse is comingto Costa Rica on Friday, April 8.That afternoon will see a rare hybrideclipse here, so named because of...

U.S. Embassy Offers Tax Return Advice

AN Internal Revenue Service (IRS)tax assistance specialist will be availablefor brief individual consultations in theU.S. Embassy in the western San Josésuburb of Pavas from...

Post-Flood Cancellations Affect Region’s Tourism

VACATIONERS’ fear and uncertainty,rather than high water, has sunkenbusiness for hotels, restaurants, and tourguide companies in Sarapiquí andTalamanca, two regions on theCaribbean slope that...

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