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		<title>Higher Traffic Fines, Tolls, Corporation Tax in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One again, as the New Year gets started, Costa Rican&#8217;s will find themselves paying more to the government.
Ticos by nature are non-aggressive, but this time the government may experience what American&#8217;s have seen, &#8220;country wide protests&#8221; and what some of the Bloggers are writing about, &#8220;WTF &#8211; The don&#8217;t understand land!&#8221;
Starting today (Jan 1, 2012) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Unions Strikes &#8211; Benefits &amp; Privatization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it is just me, but it seems like every time you turn around Costa Rica is having some sort of labor strike.
Last Monday, about 2000 union workers of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) (government monopoly on power and light company) went on strike, and snarled traffic on several major streets in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Internet Future – IPv6, Competition and Fraud</title>
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		<comments>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/internet-future-ipv6-competition-fraud#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s most advance technology will have it  20th Birthday on Aug, 8th; thats when the “World Wide Web (www)” first gained a public face in 1991. 
CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after,  British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Goes After US Income Expats in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 13:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the media hammered the public with the new IRS threat, that they are going after US expats that have failed to pay US income taxes!
Back in February of 2011 the IRS announced a program for U.S. taxpayers who have overseas accounts, income, or other foreign assets that have not been previously reported and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uranium Weapons Banned in Costa Rica &#8211; No Free Trade Zone</title>
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		<comments>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/bans-uranium-weapons-free-trade#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Costa Rica got a lot of world-wide attention with three hot news stories.
A Costa Rican court sentenced former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez to five years in prison Wednesday after finding him guilty of taking bribes from French telecoms giant Alcatel. Alcatel is no stranger to kickbacks,  in Dec, 2010,  US Securities and Exchange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Poker Gambling Seizures &#8211; PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday (at around 1:30 pm), I got a call from a private investigator in Costa Rica, who said the U.S. Government&#8217;s FBI just killed Costa Rica today! This is huge news!
My friend continued with the outraged about how the FBI put over 4,000 Costa Ricans (we heard reports that this may be up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Seizes Sailfish Meat From Seafood Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. USA. – Costa Rican government officials released information to The Billfish Foundation (TBF) of the seizure from a seafood exporter, of over 7,000 kilos of sailfish meat bound for Peru. Sailfish are protected species in the popular Costa Rican fishery.
Tico Times Editor Note: Costa Rica&#8217;s ban of exporting billfish meat was established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limon&#8217;s Redevelopment &#8211; Stalemate Between Union and Government</title>
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		<comments>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/limon-redevelopment-stalemate-government-union#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you love historical redevelopment, it is so easy to see how Limon would be the perfect candidate,  and at the same time become a world-class port bringing in billions to Costa Rica. Its shipyards with historical railroad equipment, the downtown look of Caribbean/New Orleans, with its Victorian homes flaunting long balconies and colorful façades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica’s Future &#8211; US Marines, Drugs, Investments, Tourism, and Oil</title>
		<link>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/future-us-marines-drugs-investments-tourism</link>
		<comments>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/future-us-marines-drugs-investments-tourism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week our email box was pretty much filled with, “Why the US Marines were invading Costa Rica?” Even at our Facebook  account, a few commented on right-wing political BS, “It&#8217;s all about the oil, about building a military base in Costa Rica, and of keeping an eye on all the other dangerous countries around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance in Costa Rica – INS &#8211; Rules of Engagement to Brokers</title>
		<link>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/insurance-ins-rules-of-engagement-brokers</link>
		<comments>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/insurance-ins-rules-of-engagement-brokers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Costa Rican knows [since they can remember] the government monopoly of, oil/gas, electric, internet, and insurance has been one big headache after another. In Oct, 2007  when Costa Rica’s Free Trade Agreements (FTA) were signed,  it looked like for the first time Costa Rican’s were going to get a break, when foreign companies could [...]]]></description>
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