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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s New Luxury Tax &#8211; Meat, Fruit and Floors Mops</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#39;t know what is going on with the government of Costa Rica and it seems like every day I/m feeling more sorry for the Ticos. Last January, the government hammered the people with higher traffic fines, tolls increases and corporation Tax and before that,&#160; the cigarette tax. We all know how importing luxury items [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs In Costa Rica &#8211; Stray, Puppy Mills and Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; About 2 to four times a month we get these heartbreaking emails from animal lovers about stray dogs that wander the streets.&#160; And of course the story of the man who took a machete to a street dog, who only survived by a generous veterinary,&#160; pretty much had animals lovers in rage. Those loving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serving Legal Papers in Costa Rica Via Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take The Poll The distance between Costa Rica, Social Media, Internet and technology is narrowing all the time. No, I&#39;m not referring to iPhones and better Internet services, but to a judge in the United Kingdom&#39;s High Court, who ruled this week that legal claims can be served on Facebook. The big question, whether or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does SOPA and PIPA Have To Do With Costa Rica?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday many websites were in a World-Wide Blackout against The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, and it&#8217;s sister bill, Protect IP Act (PIPA), that is currently working their way through the United States Congress and the Senate. These new bills threaten every facet of the internet by letting government regulate what can and can [...]]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Canada&#8217;s Seniors Immigration Increase to Costa Rica?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica is an expats haven, taking advantage of their world class medial &#38; education systems, democratic government, gorgeous tropical climate, diverse economy and of course the affordable real estate. The ones that top the list are Americans and Canadians. Currently, over 100,000 Americans and 20,000 Canadians live in Costa Rica. Like the U.S., Canada’s  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Costa Rica’s Internet Service Providers Going to Be Charging Extra for Excessive Bandwidth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks one of our accounts has been having a hard time logging into their server. So after they rebooted the router a few times and then cleaned the ends of the cables the problem still existed. For a while it was driving me a bit crazy why this was happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Costa Rica&#8217;s Rainforest &#8211; Most Expensive ($18,000) Flip-flops &#8211; Chipkos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt ecology is a big issue, and no doubt businesses will hype their ecology concern in an effort to increase sales. However, one company takes it to the extreme and hopefully it will benefit Costa Rica. Last week, designer sandal’s guru, Chipkos announced their latest pair of flip-flops. They will be the world’s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Internet Future – IPv6, Competition and Fraud</title>
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		<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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