Archive for March 26th, 2008

Costa Ricans’ Ties to FARC Probed

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
The discovery of a safe containing $480,000 of funds in a Heredia home, left there by officials of the murderous Colombian guerrilla group FARC, (see newsblog 1635) has not only raised a firestorm in the press but resulted in Colombian and Costa Rican police cooperating in trying to […]

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Olympics Board Employs New Broom on Officials

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
Does anyone remember the controversy late last year that hit the National Olympics Committee, with charges flying against its chairman, Jorge Nery Carvajal? Well, the committee’s special assembly used a new broom and swept him out, along with other top officials yesterday as the Pekin Olympics looms on […]

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