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Daily Edition: San José, Costa Rica, August 09, 2006
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| TWO Voices: An exhibit of the work of Dutch-Costa Rican artist Johannes Boekhoudt called “Dos Voces” (Two Voices) was inaugurated last night at the Calderón Guardia Museum in San José. Boekhoudt draws on his Dutch and Costa Rican heritage in his painting, which has been praised internationally. The exhibit runs through Aug. 27; call 222-5765 for more information. |
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Arias Talks Trade, Disarmament
With South American Leaders
President Oscar Arias met in Colombia Monday and yesterday with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Peruvian President Alan García, reaching agreements in the areas of free trade and disarmament. The leaders, along with their counterparts from other Latin American countries, were in Colombia for the inauguration of newly re-elected President Alvaro Uribe.
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Normal Year so Far
for Earthquake Activity
Though the 344 earthquakes Costa Rica felt during July may sound like a lot of ground shaking for one month, the country experienced an average amount of seismic activity that month and has seen lower to average activity so far this year, according to University of Costa Rica (UCR) seismologist Mario Fernández.
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August 09
Women's Club of
Costa Rica
Monthly Meeting
With presentation on breast cancer, 9:30 a.m., CIMA Hospital, Escazú, west of San José. Info: 273-1142, 285-1276, www.wccr.org.
Two Worlds Concert
Music from Latin America's colonial era performed by Ganassi Group, 6:30 p.m., Contemporary Art and Design Museum, San José. Info: 257-9370.
Edited By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff
aroberson@ticotimes.net
Arias Talks Trade, Disarmament
With South American Leaders
President Oscar Arias met in Colombia Monday and yesterday with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Peruvian President Alan García, reaching agreements in the areas of free trade and disarmament. The leaders, along with their counterparts from other Latin American countries, were in Colombia for the inauguration of newly re-elected President Alvaro Uribe.
According to a statement from Casa Presidencial, Bachelet promised to send a delegation of farmers, legislators and business executives headed by Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley to Costa Rica to explain how Chile has benefited from its wide array of free-trade agreements. Chile is Latin America's biggest per-capita exporter, has the area's highest poverty-reduction rates and is negotiating additional free-trade agreements with Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
During Bachelet and Arias' meeting Monday, Arias also invited her to visit Costa Rica in November.
Yesterday, the last day of Arias' three-day visit to Bogota, he also met with García, who said he is interested in increasing trade between Peru and Costa Rica.
García gave Arias his support for the “Costa Rican Consensus,” a disarmament plan Arias has been actively promoting since his tour of Europe in June (TT, June 9, 16). It calls for developed countries to take developing nations' spending habits, particularly their military spending, into account when calculating aid, rewarding countries that minimize military spending.
Arias was also scheduled to meet Monday night with Cuban Vice-President Carlos Lage, but he cancelled the meeting, saying that Lage had put limits on what the two leaders could discuss.
According to the daily La Nación, Arias had planned to send a message through Lage to Raúl Castro, to whom ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro has handed the reins of the government, urging him to organize a transition to democracy. However, Arias said Lage approached him during the inauguration ceremony Monday and told him he didn't want to talk about that issue.
“I can't allow people to place conditions on the issues I want to talk about, so I had to cancel the appointment,” Arias told the daily.
-Tico Times
Normal Year so Far for Earthquake Activity
By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff
aroberson@ticotimes.net
Though the 344 earthquakes Costa Rica felt during July may sound like a lot of ground shaking for one month, the country experienced an average amount of seismic activity that month and has seen lower to average activity so far this year, according to University of Costa Rica (UCR) seismologist Mario Fernández.
July saw only five more earthquakes than the 339 that occurred during June and 23 fewer earthquakes than the 367 that occurred during July of 2004, according to a statement from UCR.
There were more earthquakes that registered 3.5 or more on the Richter scale in July than in June, although only seven of July's 344 registered earthquakes were felt and reported by citizens. The largest earthquake measured 5.3 on the Richter scale and was felt in the northwestern Guanacaste province.
These earthquakes release seismic tension, preventing larger, destruction-causing quakes from occurring, Fernández said.
“It's a principle in nature that having a lot of small earthquakes diminishes the risk of a large one,” Fernández said, adding that a dangerous earthquake in Costa Rica is unlikely in the near future.
“We're seeing the seismic levels as very low recently compared to the early 1990s, when there were several strong earthquakes,” Fernández said.
Much of Costa Rica's volcanic activity in July occurred in the central Pacific area, where the Coco and Caribbean tectonic plates meet, the statement said. Additionally, the area along the Panama border spanning from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea experienced increased activity.
So far this year, there have been 2,135 earthquakes in Costa Rica; last year there were 3,489 earthquakes and 6,175 occurred in 2004.
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