Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Costa Rica registered a trade deficit of $363 million in the first two months of 2009, down 62 percent from the same period last year, the Central Bank (BCCR) announced Saturday.
The drop was primarily due to a fall in imports, due to the global economic crisis, said the bank.
The country imported $1.7 billion worth of goods in January and February, down from $2.5 billion in those same months in 2008.
Exports were down only 16 percent, from $1.6 billion in 2008 to $1.3 billion this year.
The country closed 2008 with a $5.8 billion trade deficit, a 60 percent increase over the $3.6 billion deficit registered in 2007.
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Matthew Francis Nolan has been arrested in connection with a 2005 murder
The brother of “Dark Knight ” director Christopher Nolan, Matthew Francis Nolan, has been arrested in connection with an alleged 2005 murder in Central America, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Nolan, 40, had been under investigation by Chicago Police in an alleged $700,000 bank-fraud scheme, when FBI agents arrested him last month in connection with the alleged 2005 killing of Florida businessman Robert C. Cohen in Costa Rica.
According to the report, Nolan pretended to be a fellow businessman while in Costa Rica, where he met Cohen, but was actually there to allegedly get back $7 million from Cohen, which was owed to another Florida man, authorities claimed.
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