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Monthly Archives: November, 2005

Pact Takes Effect With Trinidad and Tobago

THE free-trade agreement betweenCosta Rica and the CaribbeanCommunity (CARICOM) officially tookeffect Nov. 15 between Costa Rica andTrinidad and Tobago, the first two countriesto exchange...

Alleged Villalobos Bounty Hunter: Payments Will Begin Soon

THE man who claims to have caught multimillionaire fugitive Luis Enrique Villalobos and promises to distribute $500 million of Villalobos’ wealth back to the...

Guanacaste Gears Up for Bioethanol

SIXTY-four gas stations in the northwestern province of Guanacaste and in the country’s central Pacific region will start distributing a gasoline mixture containing a...

Alvarez Desanti: A Call for Stability, Efficiency

(Fifth in a series on presidential candidates’ positions on the economy, business and trade.)HIGHWAYS without bridges, bridges without highways, bills in the Legislative Assembly...

Calderón Meets with Past and Present Legislators

CELEBRATING just over a month free from house arrest, former President Rafael Angel Calderón (1990-1994) had lunch Wednesday with a group of current and...

Thousands Turn Out for CAFTA

IN what may have been the biggest demonstration ever in favor of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA), thousands of...

Ambassador: Seeking ‘Peace and Quiet’

FROM his understaffed and somewhat embattled embassy in eastern San José, Ambassador Francisco Fiallos, the Nicaraguan envoy to Costa Rica, spoke to The Tico...

San José to Have State-of-the-Art Cultural Center

THERE is the Palacio de Cristal inMadrid, Spain. The Museum of ModernArt in Wakayama, Japan. The AlternativeArt Center in Mexico City. The Villette inParis,...

State Compensates Victims’ Families in Embassy Slaying

THE government of Costa Rica reached an agreement to compensate the family of deceased Chilean Embassy First Secretary Roberto Nieto, one of the victims...

Microsoft Donates to Costa Rican Schools

BY way of the worldwide Alliance for Education, a program of the multinational high-tech company Microsoft, 62 rural high schools and 20 regional centers...

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