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Dalai Lama set to miss Costa Rica visit (Costa Rica News, Travel and Reviews)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:19:41 GMT

... Nevertheless the visit has been cancelled by Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias who describes the Dalai Lama as a personal friend, yet due to worries that the visit may provoke political problems with the President of China who is also expected to enjoy a stay in Costa Rica in October. Relations between China and Tibet has long been ridden with problems...

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Heredia Train Promised For December (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:08:01 GMT

... their car at home and mobilize in a secure and economic environment”, said Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias Sánchez. The rehabiliation of the train service between Heredia and San José is one of the measures announced by the government as part of the national contingency plan to alleviate the energy crisis generated by the unsustainable rise in the cost of oil in the world. Miguel...

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Costa Rica gets a $850 million loan (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:00:08 GMT

The Bank of Inter-American Development (BID) agreed to lend Costa Rica $850 million to build or improve roads, bicycle paths, the new international airport in the Costa Rican South Pacific, and the Metropolitan Electric Railroad, among other works. The loan has to be approved by the congressional, a fact that prompted president Oscar Arias to [...]

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Oscar Arias Tells The United States to leave Guantanamo (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:32:02 GMT

The United States has to leave Guantanamo Base, said President Oscar Arias. He thus supported Cuba in the historical complaint for the occupation of Guantanamo Island, located off the southeastern tip of the island nation, by the U.S. armed forces. Dr. Arias said Washington has to return the enclave to Havana, in a goodwill sign [...]

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Costa Rica's President: U.S. should leave Guantanamo (Cuba Journal)

noreply@blogger.com (Cuba Journal) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:40:00 GMT

www.livecostarica.net 8/5/2008 President Oscar Arias expressed last week his support to Cuba in the historic dispute with the United States by the occupation of the Guantanamo military base in the far southeast of the island. Arias was in favor of Washington returning the enclave back to La Habana as a sign towards normalization of relations. "Again, I repeat what I told Bill...

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Brazil and Costa Rica Call For Latin American Unity To Face Global Crisis (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:27:54 GMT

Brazil and Costa Rica have urged Latin American countries to unite in the face of the global financial and food crisis. “Latin American unity is now essential to face the financial crisis in the developed countries,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said here Wednesday following a meeting with visiting Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. He [...]

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Costa Rica gets better Internet connection (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:40:51 GMT

Costa Rican traffic of data, Internet and telephone calls with the world is now safer, thanks to the connection to submarine cables on both coasts. The most recent link was inaugurated by President Oscar Arias and Costa Rican Electricity and Telecommunications (ICE in Spanish) authorities at Unqui Station, in Esterillos, on the Central Pacific. A [...]

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US woman gets asylum in Costa Rica (Boston Globe)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:41:17 GMT

... into consideration when del Vecchio awarded her asylum earlier this week.Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said he viewed the case as a human rights issue and called Tomayko's release "wonderful news."The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica called Tomayko's release "disappointing."© Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten,...

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Cherlyn Tomayko Given Refugee Status; US Annoyed By Decision (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:58:14 GMT

... a airplane to the Ministerio de Seguridad, which was programmed for today. Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, defended his government’s decision. “The government does not have to consult other governments for decisions that our ours. This is a subject of human rights and we have always protected people who have had their rights threathened”, said Arias. Del Vecchio added that...

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Costa Rica’s Insurance Monopoly At An End (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:03:03 GMT

With the signature of Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, the insurance monopoly held by the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS), has ended, allowing Costa Ricans to make a choice once the competition enters the market. President Arias, with INS president, Guillermo Constenla Umaña, yesterday signed the “Ley Reguladora del Mercado de Seguros”. The law allows for the [...]

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Costa Rica President Oscar Arias denies knowledge of diverted Taiwan funds (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:07:24 GMT

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias denied any knowledge of a 1.5 million dollar donation from Taiwan for his country’s poor, but which allegedly was diverted for pet projects elsewhere in the government. “I had no knowledge of this help from the government of Taiwan which I learned about from the press just recently,” he said in [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-064 – Critical - Microsoft PressPass (Event Management Security Information) (event management security)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:30:41 GMT

Version: 3.0 This critical security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft DirectX. These vulnerabilities could allow code execution if a user opened a specially crafted file used for streaming media in DirectX. If a user Read More - Project will attract more high technology investments to country. - Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias to attend inauguration....

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Global Crossing Inaugurates Submarine Cable in Costa Rica's Pacific Coast (PR News Wire )

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

- Project will attract more high technology investments to country. - Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias to attend inauguration. ESTERILLOS, Costa Rica, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing (Nasdaq: ), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced the lighting of its new fiber-optic submarine cable in Esterillos of Parrita, Puntarenas. Global Crossing; Instituto...

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My Costa Rica (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:13:41 GMT

... formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA). On Wednesday, May 16, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias, an ’86 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that he would withdraw the current enrollees from the school that June and vowed that no more would be sent in the future. While the country has no standing army, at the time of his decision, there were reportedly three police personnel...

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Index of Posts on Personal Heroes (Levellers)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:54:19 GMT

... Luther King, Jr. 1 , 2 , 3 . Letty M. Russell James Farmer Will D. Campbell John Smyth Al Gore Oscar Arias Sanchez Dorothy Day Muriel Lester Desmond Tutu, 1 Desmond Tutu, 2 Jewish defenses of Jimmy Carter 1 & 2

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Costa Rica Cars Go Green with Sugar Cane-Based BioFuel (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:28:48 GMT

Sugar Cane Will Be the Major Source For Costa Rica’s New Alternative Fuel. The entire Central American country of Costa Rica, known for its diverse wildlife and strikingly peaceful landscape, is doing all that it can to help preserve the beauty for the generations [and tourists] to come. President Oscar Arias has vowed to have the [...]

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Housing Minister Resigns (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:08:22 GMT

The Ministro de Vivienda (Housing minister), Fernando Zumbado, has left his post temporarily while investigators dig into allegations of misuse of us$1.4 million dollars in funds donated the Government of Taiwan placed in a fideicomiso (trust fund), which was to be used to eradicate the “precarios” (slums) in Pavas. In a letter to Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, Zumbado, known as...

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Costa Rican Congress approves ending its 84-year-old insurance monopoly (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:53:32 GMT

Costa Rica is saying goodbye to its 84-year-old insurance monopoly as it opens the industry to national and international competition. Lawmakers late Tuesday approved legislation to end the government-run Insurance Institute. President Oscar Arias is expected to sign it into law. Last month, Costa Rica broke up its state-run telecommunications monopoly. Washington demanded Costa Rica...

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Costa Rica lawmakers ban Spanking (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39:25 GMT

Lawmakers voted this week to prohibit parents from spanking their kids. The bill, passed in a second vote Wednesday, would outlaw physical or emotional punishment or mistreatment of children. The proposal will become law once it is signed by President Oscar Arias. Ombudswoman Lisbeth Quesada, whose office proposed the bill in 2005, cheered the vote. Nothing justifies [...]

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Dialog with Cuba (Top 10 Costa Rica)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:23:24 GMT

The months of tension between the governments of Oscar Arias and Raul Castro seem to have come to an end. There is frequent and growing dialog between the ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two nations, even though the absence of diplomatic relations remains. Minister Bruno Stagno has met several times with his Cuban peer [...]

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