Word: ricas
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...Bush Administration has dodged another electoral bullet south of the border, but only by the narrowest of margins. Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias was finally declared the winner of Costa Rica?s presidential election on Tuesday-ending a tense, month-long manual vote recount that almost put another anti-U.S. leftist in power in Latin America, this time in one of the region?s most traditionally stable and U.S.-friendly nations...
...Arias, 64, a Social Democrat who won the Nobel Prize during his first presidency in the 1980s for his work to end Central America?s bloody civil wars, defeated Otton Solis of the Citizen?s Action Party by just 1.1%, one of the closest margins in Costa Rica?s history, and he garnered only 40.9% of the total vote. Solis-who was backed by the radical and increasingly popular left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez-opposes Costa Rica?s entrance into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with...
...Solis? stunning near-upset-pre-election voter polls suggested Arias would win handily-came close to adding Costa Rica to the growing list of Latin nations who have moved leftward in the past year, as voters grow increasingly frustrated with U.S.-backed capitalist reforms that only seem to have widened the region?s epic wealth gap. Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay recently elected leftist heads of state; seven more Latin presidential elections are slated for this year, and leftist candidates are given a strong chance of winning as many as six of them. ?Hopefully, Arias can be a counterbalance against...
...course, people are not just coming from Tuxpan. Workers have been flooding into the Hamptons from other parts of Mexico, from Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. And the Hamptons, like so many suburban areas facing the same deluge, are feeling the strain...
...most persuasive piece of evidence in the new study, led by J. Alan Pounds of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica and published in Nature, is a graph that shows both annual changes in average temperature and the number of frog extinctions per year on the same grid: the jagged lines track each other with eerie precision. Species die-offs follow warm years 80% of the time. With tropical air temperatures from 1975 to 2000 rising three times as fast as the 20th century average, things should only get worse...