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EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, A VENEZUELAN STATE radio-TV channel broadcast a tape of Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias declaring that President Carlos Andres Perez had been deposed by a coup. Premature: Chavez Frias, who led a failed coup in February, is still in jail, and by dawn Perez was broadcasting that this attempt too had failed. But then rebel planes bombed the presidential palace, and inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other rebels...
...Chavez traced Costa Rica's economic and educational development, saying that "the present conditions are a result of a historical process...
Education in Costa Rica is free and has brought social mobility to society, Chavez said. Still, he said, the country's educational system is flawed. The Costa Rican education is too focused on the humanities, he said. "What we learned was isolated from society...
Costa Rica's economy is agriculturally based, Chavez said. Coffee exports brought European trade in the 1800's, making the country prosperous enough to establish its first university...
While optimistic about the progress Costa Rica has made in entering new industries, Chavez warned that if his country "cannot be competitive in new fields of technology," its economic growth will cease...