Word: ricas
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...applied elsewhere? Sadruddin Salman, Dhaka Today, Grameen programs are everywhere. We even have a program in New York City, and it works beautifully. We brought the same system as we do in the villages of Bangladesh. We do it in Latin American countries - in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica - in exactly the same...
...group of panelists including two Nobel Prize winning economics professors, Harvard’s Amartya K. Sen and Stanford’s A. Michael Spence. They were joined by Law School Professor Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca, a Founding Director of the National Program of Educational Informatics in Costa Rica. While much of the discussion centered around how technology could be deployed as a tool in international development, some time was also devoted to a range of issues including economic competition and regulation, policy implications of technology, climate control, and technological fluency. “You are either a part...
...against U.S.-backed contra rebels. Ortega made it clear soon after the Honduran coup that he felt it was the role of ALBA, not of the more conservative Arias, to broker a deal there. Ortega was also apparently miffed that the Honduran military decided to banish Zelaya to Costa Rica and immediately invited him to Nicaragua, where the Sandinista leader played a key role in getting Latin American countries to unanimously condemn the coup. When Zelaya attempted to fly back to Honduras in July, he rode in a Venezuelan government...
...pandemic makes no distinctions.' OSCAR ARIAS, the Nobel Peace Prize--winning President of Costa Rica, announcing on Aug. 11 that he had contracted the H1N1 virus. Arias, who has been mediating talks to resolve the ongoing leadership crisis in Honduras, is expected to recover and will work from home while convalescing...
...Hugo Chávez, who recently won a referendum that allows indefinite re-election. When Zelaya last month defied a Supreme Court ban against a nonbinding plebiscite he'd called on constitutional change, the army whisked him away in his pajamas and flew him to forced exile in Costa Rica. (See pictures of the Honduras coup on LIFE.com...