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Spain Seizes120 Kilos of Cocaine from Costa Rica
The police intervened in the Galician port of Marín (northwest Spain) and found 120 kilos of cocaine hidden in a container of bananas from Costa Rica.The drugs were hidden in the back of the container and, according to the...
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Venezuela Announces Strengthen Relationship with Nicaragua
Latin America News - The governments of Nicaragua and Venezuela agreed to strengthen cooperation between the two countries during a visit by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Managua.Maduro said that "now there will be more cooperation" in areas such...
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Costa Rica Presented Final Resolution to UN on the Treaty on Arms Trade
The United Nations on Monday, June 3rd, 2013, began the process of signing the Treaty on Arms Trade General Assembly of the Organization approved last April to try to prevent the supply of arms to conflict zones or criminal...
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Latin America Emerges Stronger from Global Crisis by Increasing Middle Class and Opportunity
Latin America News - Latin America emerge stronger from the crisis thanks to falling unemployment at the regional level and the consolidation of its middle class, confirmed the International Labour Organization (ILO)."Latin America has fattened the size of the...
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Laura Chinchilla Excited about OECD Invitation for Costa Rica
Last week the president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, celebrated the OECD invitation to begin negotiations on the country's accession in 2005, calling it a "recognition of all that we have been moving forward as a country."Chinchilla said at...
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Iran Terrorists ‘Sleeper Cells' Are Infiltrating South America, Reports Argentina Prosecutor
Latin America News - Iran Terrorists are "infiltrating" South America and setting up intelligence networks to carry out terrorist attacks in the region, an Argentine prosecutor said last week.The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, accused Mohsen Rabbani, Iran's former cultural attaché...
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Organized Crime Threaten Press in Latin America
Latin America News - Inter American Press Association, or IAPA, president Jaime Mantilla said in an interview with EFE that organized crime, drug trafficking, and authoritarian governments were the greatest threats to freedom of the press in Latin America."Now...
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Brazil: Hundreds of Indians Occupy Disputed Land
Latin America News – Brazil: Hundreds of Brazilian Indians reoccupied a rural property in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the latest episode of tensions between indigenous groups and the powerful lobby of farmers.Terena tribe says that...
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Francis Pope meets with President José Mujica
Latin America News - Pope Francis was received on Saturday by the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace.The Vatican spokesman, said the private hearing lasted about 45 minutes and Francisco said he was "very happy...
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Costa Rican Activist Protecting Leatherback Turtles Found Dead
An environmentalist who protected leatherback turtles off the coast of Costa Rica in the Caribbean was found dead Friday at a beach used by drug traffickers, authorities said.The Judicial Investigation Organization of Costa Rica said in a statement that...
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Global Sea Turtle Day is Commemorated in Costa Rica
Sea turtles are ancient creatures that have inhabited our oceans for more than 100 million years. These guardians of...