Archive for February 19th, 2006

TSE Concludes Metro Vote Count

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

On Saturday the TSE finished counting by hand the Heredia polling stations and these were the last in the Metropolitan Area.  Guanacaste, Puntarenas and Limon are the areas with tables that have yet to be scrutinized.
To date, Arias has received 556,757 votes and Solis 574,612. This represents 4695 polling stations (80.56% of the total)  […]

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3rd Time a Charm - Girl with AIDS Girl Gets US Visa

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

On Friday the US embassy authorized a tourist visa so that an 8 year old AIDS patient may visit the Disney theme park in Orlando Florida. 
Twice before she was denied, but this time the application was approved because of a special exception given by the department of Homeland Security. 
The story made headlines on […]

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