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The golden toad of Monteverde, Costa Rica, was among the first casualties of amphibian declines.
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According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.
Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.
Abaca fiber drying in abaca farm, Costa Rica
Today, abaca is produced commercially in only three countries: Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.
Yields are highest in Costa Rica, but the industry is new and planted acreage limited.
In Costa Rica, more modern harvest and drying techniques are being developed to accommodate the very high yields obtained there.
ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.
In general Spanish, they are known as cortaplumas ( penknife, when it comes to folding blades ); in Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica, they are colloquially known as cutters ; and in Uruguay the segmented fixed-blade knives are known as " trinchetas ".
Costa Rica ( Roman Catholic ), Denmark ( Evangelical Lutheran ), El Salvador ( Roman Catholic ), England ( Anglican ), Finland ( Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox ), Georgia ( Georgian Orthodox ), Greece ( Greek Orthodox ), Iceland ( Evangelical Lutheran ), Liechtenstein ( Roman Catholic ), Malta ( Roman Catholic ), Monaco ( Roman Catholic ), and Vatican City ( Roman Catholic ).
The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.
Clipperton Island ( or ) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at.
In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.
Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica
In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.
The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.
Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony, Villa Bruselas in Costa Rica in 1524.
During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.
Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( i. e., Colombia ), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.
Costa Rica was described as " the poorest and most miserable Spanish colony in all America " by a Spanish governor in 1719.

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Traditional marimba bands are especially popular in Guatemala where they are the national symbol of culture, but are also strongly established in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as among Afro-Ecuadorians and Afro-Colombians.
Martinho da Costa Lopes grew up in an era when the Portuguese church in what was then Portuguese Timor cooperated closely with the Portuguese colonial government, but was less strongly linked with the people, of whom only 28 % were Catholic in 1975.
Opinions generated in scientific, ethical and economic matters strongly influence Costa Rican policies and public sentiment.
Playing out of yet another new stadium-Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa-Blue Star started the season strongly, winning four of their first five games, including an astonishing 4-3 victory over San Fernando Valley Quakes which saw them score 4 goals in the final 8 minutes of the game.

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In early 2005, Tom Dumont released his own solo music project, Invincible Overlord, with friend and collaborator Ted Matson, and backed up Matt Costa on his 2005 tour.
This was a plan intended to promote democracy and peace on the Central American isthmus during a time of great turmoil: leftist guerrillas were fighting against the governments in El Salvador and Guatemala, which were backed by the United States under the auspices of the Cold War ; the Contras, supported by the United States, were fighting an insurgency against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua ; Honduras, only recently wresting political power from its military, was caught in the middle as a base for U. S. military forces ; and on Costa Rica's other border, Panama faced the oppression of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship.
During the summer of 2008 he took a leave of absence for a mini-tour in Europe, backed by the Costa Rican band Son de Tikizia.
In the referendum on October 7, 2007, the voters of Costa Rica narrowly backed the free trade agreement, with 51. 6 percent of " Yes " votes ; The necessary implementation laws have been approved and the agreement took effect January 1, 2009.
The first contingent to arrive was a rifle company from Honduras which was soon backed by detachments from Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
In a referendum on October 7, 2007, the voters of Costa Rica narrowly backed the free trade agreement with the U. S., with about 52 percent of " Yes " votes.
His coalition, by now called ' New Movement ' ( Nuevo Movimiento ) backed UCR Eduardo Costa for Governor of Santa Cruz, who was defeated by Kirchner's candidate Daniel Peralta in 2007, although the different opposition parties within the Change to Grow coalition fell out over the placings on the regional list for national deputies in the election.

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Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.
The earliest architectural efforts around the city focused on classical European designs such as the Central Train Station ( CFM ) designed by architects Alfredo Augusto Lisboa de Lima, Mario Veiga and Ferreira da Costa and built between 1913 and 1916 ( sometimes mistaken with the work of Gustav Eiffel ), and the Hotel Polana designed by Herbert Baker.
This infusion of money allowed Costa and Kaloogian to step up their efforts.
: dozens of cables in which the Ambassador sought to undermine regional peace efforts such as the Contadora initiative that ultimately won Costa Rican president Oscar Arias a Nobel Prize, as well as multiple reports of meetings and conversations with Honduran military officers who were instrumental in providing logistical support and infrastructure for CIA covert operations in support of the contras against Nicaragua -" our special project " as Negroponte refers to the contra war in the cable traffic.
On the following Summer, Costa further increased his efforts to build a solid Benfica team, with such signings as Argentinean striker Javier Saviola, Brazilian centre midfielder Ramires and Spanish defensive midfielder Javi García, along with experienced Portuguese manager Jorge Jesus.
Additionally, UGA Costa Rica is responsible for various conservation and sustainability initiatives in the San Luis Valley, namely its UGA-sponsored Carbon Offset Program and its reforestation efforts throughout the Pájaro Campana Biological Corridor.
The Richmond Progressive Alliance ( RPA ) is a community / political group in Richmond, western Contra Costa County, California, United States of America. It supports various community efforts including campaigns to force the local Chevron refinery to pay higher taxes and reduce pollution ; opposition to racial profiling ; and opposition to urban casino development in Point Molate.
Carr was also known for his efforts in conservation, especially for sea turtles, helping convince Costa Rica to establish Tortuguero National Park in 1975.
The preservation of endemic species in the area has been made a priority by the Costa Rican government through the efforts of MINAE.
The community which was no more than a locality in the parish of Furnas, was elevated to administrative parish on June 24, 1943, due to the efforts of its parish priest, Father José Jacinto da Costa ( locally referred to as Padre José Mansinho ): at the time the population had reached 1800 residents.
On the other hand, he praises the efforts of Giulia Grisi, Mario and Michael Costa, together with a group of journalists ( including himself ), for successfully creating the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden in 1847.
His efforts finally paid off when in June 10, 1961 president José Figueres Ferrer signed a law that mandated the creation of the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica ( Costa Rica Institute of Technology ).

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