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)  17,855 is the lead that Solis will take into the provinces, which are expected to be won by Arias. 

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 Spanish language channel Univision in the US and French embassy officials had offered to coordinate a trip (including medical attention) to the Disney amusement park in Paris.

The first grader was estatic "I get to meet the princesses and Mickey!", she screamed, while she hugged a stuffed Mickey Mouse sent to her by the Disney characters along with a personal invitation.