Archive for January 7th, 2008

Traffic Law Bill Needs Work, Experts Say

Monday, January 7th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
The traffic code reform that a citizens’ campaign had urged by hundreds of thousands of petition signatures in November and December is still not ready to see the light of day, according to legal experts Humberto Fallas and Agustin Atmella. They contend it contains serious defects that turn […]

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Trial of Fischel Officers, Ex-President Readied

Monday, January 7th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
The prosecution plans to call 300 witnesses, including former President Abel Pacheco, and has compiled mountains of evidence in the fraud trial implicating ex-President Rafael Angel Calderon and former officers of the Fischel Corporation, a pharaceutical firm and one of the country’s largest importers of medicines and medical […]

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