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Written by Rod Hughes
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:09 |
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When ICE, the telephone monopoly, awoke to the necessity of linking Costa Rica to the rest of the world through the Internet in the late 20th century, the phone people created a subsidiary known as RACSA. By law, RACSA was also a monopoly at first but by 2002, spurred by a chorus of complaints about slow service, the parent stepped in with its own Internet service.
Despite competition from ICE, the ugly stepchild grew in a burgeoning market until it had 72% of the action, with 137,000 connections in 2008. Testifying before the Legislative Assemby last week, ICE chief Eduardo Doryan revealed that RACSA now has barely 25% market share, down to 96,000 connections, the Spanish-language paper La Nacion reported..
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 21:50 |
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President Wants More Drug War Aid |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Monday, 30 August 2010 23:39 |
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla says her country needs more U.S. aid to become a more effective partner in the war against drug trafficking, the Miami Herald reports. As if to underscore her point, police seized more than a ton of cocaine last February and arrested two Mexican men believed to work for the Juarez cartel.
But police wonder how many other big caches they may have missed as Mexican drug cartels use the isthmus increasingly as a highway. Yet, beleaguered Mexico received the lion's share of the Merida initiative funds while Central America and two Caribbean nations received sprinkles of aid.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 00:14 |
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Court Torpedoes Union Takeover |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Monday, 30 August 2010 18:41 |
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Costa Rica's international reputation for labor relations suffered another smack last week when the Supreme Court stuck down what was widely denounced as a "government takeover" of a longshoreman's union. Earlier, the U.S.-based International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) had filed a protest.
The ILWU charged that Costa Rican government's assuming control of the SINTRAJAP longshoreman's union at the Atlantic port of Limon constituted "serious and repeated failures by the Costa Rican government to enforce its own labor laws."
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 22:19 |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Monday, 30 August 2010 17:16 |
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Surprisingly, for such a talkative people, Costa Ricans have the one of the lowest rates of cell phone use in Latin America, according to the blog, Cellular News. But, predicts Pyramid Research, with privatization of the industry, that will jump 136% by 2015.
Until recently, ICE, the telephone company, held a monopoly, contracting cell phone companies by means of a cumbersome bidding process so arduous that currently a corruption trial of an ex-president is underway because of alleged improprieties in granting multi-million dollar contracts.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 21:55 |
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Chiquita Brands Creates Bioenergy |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Monday, 30 August 2010 16:03 |
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The giant banana company, Chiquita, has taken a giant step in Costa Rica toward the government's avowed goal of carbon neutrality by opening a new bio-digester at its operation in Guapiles.
The new facility will turn the organic waste associated with the raising and preparation of fruit for export into sustainable energy with a valuable byproduct, nutrient-rich natural fertilizer while recycling water and returning it to the land.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 21:52 |
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