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	<title>Laura Chinchilla</title>
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	<description>Costa Rica&#039;s first female President</description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Tourists Getting Credit Cards Charged for Speeding?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This email is from Clint who sent us a message asking if what Linda Gray said is true. Maybe there are other people more knowledgeable about this, that can comment on this. We do not speak for Laura but I certainly do not think she would advocate this type of due process or lack of [...]


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		<title>Ortega &#8211; It&#8217;s payback time for intruding in internal affairs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ortega&#8217;s invasion of a disputed area of land has its timing somewhat &#8220;fishy&#8221; and perhaps: payback. Around October 15, 2010 Costa Rica submitted a request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to step into the Colombia-Nicaragua maritime border dispute, saying that it affects the country&#8217;s interests in the Caribbean Sea. The [...]


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		<link>http://laura-chinchilla.com/ortega-its-payback-time-for-intruding-in-internal-affairs/</link>
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		<title>Background: Maritime Dispute Nicaragua v. Colombia Judgement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The case was brought before the ICJ by Nicaragua on 6 December 2001 and what follows in the preliminary judgement that took place in December of 2007. Nicaragua argued that the dispute concerned inter alia the validity of the 1928 Treaty, the interpretation of the 1928 Treaty as regards the geographical scope of the San [...]


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		<link>http://laura-chinchilla.com/background-maritime-dispute-nicaragua-v-colombia-judgement/</link>
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		<title>Nicaragua Invasion &#8211; More than meets the eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica stems from an island located at the mouth of the San Juan River, which forms the border between the two countries. The dispute has been simmering for a month as a result of Nicaragua’s decision to send troops to the region. Several reasons have been put forward for [...]


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		<link>http://laura-chinchilla.com/nicaragua-invasion-more-than-meets-the-eye/</link>
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		<title>Former US Ambassador Speaks Out on Cross Border Invasion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jaime Daremblum, who served as Costa Rica’s ambassador to the United States from 1998 to 2004 speaks out on what he calls Nicaragua occupation of Costa Rica land and cross border invasion by Nicaragua. Jaime has strong insight and one must wonder why there is not much political whining in the US whom is supposed [...]


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		<link>http://laura-chinchilla.com/former-us-ambassador-speaks-out-on-cross-border-invasion/</link>
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		<title>Downtown San Jose Around 1887</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going to Iglesia La Soledad from Central Park Camino a la Iglesia La Soledad desde el Parque Central fotos antiguas de costa rica, fotos antiguas de cartago costa rica, FOTOS VIEJAS DE HEREDIA, Fotos viejas de San José, heredia antigua, iglesia turrialba, iglesias de san josé costa rica, parque central de san josé de costa [...]


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		<title>1910 Earthquake in Cartago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cartago, 1910 A gruesome photo of the Cartago cementary after the devastating 1910 earthquake. The men are carrying away corpses and bones that were unearthed because of the quake. The cloths wrapped around the faces help to stand the stench. On the right two men are showing a coffin that was destroyed, while a skeleton [...]


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		<title>Talamanca Indian Home in 1925</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turrialba, 1925 A sizable house belonging to an indigenous family in Talamanca. The building is made of bamboo sticks covered with coconut palm leaf, and a roof like this could last up to twenty years. The family is dressed in western clothes &#8211; there has never been a strong tradition of typical clothing among the [...]


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		<title>Banana Plantation &#8211; Chiz of Turrialba in 1925</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turrialba, 1925 Men on horseback at the banana plantation Chiz of Turrialba. The man in the center is probably the boss and looks like he may be from the United States. He is flanked by his supervisors who in turn ride along their assistants. They are standing on the rails of the train that transports [...]


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		<link>http://laura-chinchilla.com/banana-plantation-chiz-of-turrialba-in-1925/</link>
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		<title>Turrialba Banana Farm in 1925</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turrialba, 1925 Workers from the banana plantation &#8220;Atirro&#8221; are loading bananas onto a train for export to Europe or the United States. The bananas were exported complete with the stems, whereas nowadays the bananas are taken off the stems before the bananas are exported. Peones de la plantación de bananos &#8220;Atirro&#8221; halando el banano al [...]


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