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Monthly Archives: May, 2005

Country Sweeps Regional Athletics Championship

YOUNG Costa Rican athletes dominatedboth the men’s and women’s categoriesin the Central American AthleticsChampionship in Managua, Nicaragua,last weekend, sweeping away its rivalswith 30 gold...

Villalobos Investors Skeptical about Offer

THESE could be the days of reckoningfor a U.S. man who claims he willreturn $500 million to hundreds of jiltedinvestors with the Villalobos Brothers’high-interest...

Country Asked to Ratify Anti-Tobacco Treaty

AN international coalition of nonprofitorganizations launched a campaign thisweek asking the governments of CostaRica, Brazil and Ecuador to ratify a globalanti-tobacco treaty.The Costa Rican...

Bureaucracy Dampens Hopes of Residents in Major Tourist Towns Far from Fire Stations

WHEN a storeroom caught fire lastmonth at the Hotel Cala Luna inTamarindo, a popular tourist town on thenorthern Pacific coast, neighbors andemployees quickly grabbed...

Accused Transvestite Alleges Persecution

A Costa Rican transvestite arrestedSaturday night for allegedly robbing aU.S. tourist in downtown San José claimsthe robbery was staged by enemies whodisagree with a...

Church Takes a Stand on CAFTA

AFTER months of refusing to voice aposition on the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States(CAFTA), the Catholic Church of CostaRica made public...

President Returns Club Memberships

PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco thisweek announced that he has returned twofree lifetime memberships he and hiswife, Leila Rodríguez, received during atrip to a luxury resort...

Fake Doctor Faiello Extradited To U.S.

A fake doctor from New York,arrested in Costa Rica last year oncharges connected to the death of awoman found buried in a suitcase in...

Oscar Arias Apologizes, Opponents Gear Up

PRESIDENTIAL candidate andNobel Prize laureate Oscar Arias asked forthe forgiveness of the nation Sunday in thename of the National Liberation Party,although he did not...

Party Turns Over Funds For Rural Roads

OFFICIALS from the Citizen ActionParty (PAC) have announced they hopemoney they have saved through what theycall “policies of efficiency” in the LegislativeAssembly can be...

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