Archive for August 25th, 2009
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Nicaraguan health officials have confirmed that the death of a Costa Rican woman in that country was infected with the AH1N1 flu virus. Guillermo González, Nicaragua’s ministro de Salud made the confirmation Monday morning.
The woman whose identity was not disclosed, died 12 hours after entering the Antonio Lenín Fonseca hospital in Managua.
According to the Nicaraguan ministerio de Salud, the woman was overly obese, weighing over 112 kilograms, developed respiratory problems after entering the country. Salud officials said that the woman also suffered from a sore throat, cough, sneezing, muscual pains, tiredness and a fever, among other ailments.
The woman had visited various private doctors and treated with antibiotics. However, when her condition worsened, friends and family decided to take to the hospital in a moribund state.
Despite receiving antiviral drugs, she died a hours of being admitted.
Minister González told the press that the woman had probably entered the country with the infection, though he did not specify the woman’s arrival in Nicaragua.
This is the second victim of the AH1N1 recorded in Nicaragua, while the death toll in Costa Rica is 31.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
I’ll bet we have heard that expression used hundreds of times. Well in Costa Rica many people can get back their lives.
Because of the recent financial crisis in the U.S. a large number of middle class retirees are facing the prospect of outliving their financial assets. Furthermore, even if the stock market comes back it is highly unlikely anyone will recover 100% of their loss. Fifty percent at best according to the experts. Those who planned on using the equity in their homes to help with their retirement are going to lose out, too because most of their equity of that is now gone. So what can you do?
One solution is to move offshore to a country like Costa Rica to get more bang for your buck and to enjoy a high quality life style. Nobody wants to spend their retirement years worrying about money and not enjoying themselves. In Costa Rica you can live on a few thousand dollars a month and have all the amenities of home. You will have to the time to do things that are important, such as devoting more time to the grand kids, pursuing a new hobby, making friends, traveling and in general enjoying a lifestyle you could never have afforded in the States.
Costa Rica has more foreign retirees per capita outside of the U.S. They can’t be wrong! They have discovered what life is for — living.
This is all possible in Costa Rica since the country offers year-round spring-like weather, every imaginable indoor and out door activity to stay busy and happy, low cost housing, first-world affordable medical care, high-speed Internet, first-run movies in English, theater, shopping malls, private mail services to help you stay in touch with the States and order products and so much more. The medical care alone is what brings scores of people here. In the States many people’s nest eggs have been wiped out by illnesses. That isn’t the case in Costa Rica which offers several attractive health care plans. I have had dozens of people on my monthly relocation/retirement tours end up moving here just for the medical care alone.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Costa Rica stuck with the same core of players that has taken it to the top of regional qualifying for the World Cup when it announced its squad for key games next month.
Midfielders Walter Centeno and Celso Borges and striker Bryan Ruiz were all included in a 26-man squad announced on Monday for qualifiers next month against Mexico and El Salvador.
Coach Rodrigo Kenton also called up three new players to the squad, including defenders Heiner Mora and Giancarlo Gonzalez. Kenton was roundly criticized after Costa Rica’s 4-0 loss in a qualifier earlier this month against Honduras.
After six of 10 qualifying games in the North and Central America and Caribbean region, Costa Rica leads with 12 points followed by the United States and Honduras (10), Mexico (9) and El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago (5). The top three teams advance automatically to next year’s World Cup in South Africa. The No. 4 team faces a playoff with the No. 5 from South America for another berth.
Costa Rica plays at home against Mexico on Sept. 5, and goes to El Salvador on Sept. 9. It is at home against Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 10 and plays at the United States on Oct. 14.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Mexico is working with Latin American peers Colombia and Costa Rica to fight greenhouse gases via carbon storage, the nation’s Environment Secretary Juan RafaelElvira Quesada said on Monday.
“We are working with Costa Rica and Colombia on environment mitigation and education, and seeking a joint system for storing carbon,” Elvira said in a press conference.
Methane, produced by rotting organic waste, and carbon dioxide, mostly produced by engines and electricity turbines, are main greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage serve an effective way to check and reverse the climate change.
Even without other countries’ cooperation, Mexico will endeavor to combat climate change since it has realized the high cost of ignoring it, Elvira said.
He estimated that if Mexico chose to do nothing about climate change, it would suffer a heavy loss of nearly 15.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), while the cost of prevention over the same time would be around 5.6 percent.
“Climate change clearly costs more than mitigation,” he said. In 2007, heavy rains flooded 70 percent of southern state Tabasco, inflicting a loss of 0.5 percent of GDP, he said.
He said that the Mexican government had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 128.5 million tons from 2008 to 2012.
“We aim to emit less without sacrificing growth … (the plan) helps boost foreign direct investment and budget efficiency and create a low carbon economy,” he said.
Mexico produces 6.4 tons of greenhouse gases per person, around 9 percent less than the world average of 7.1 tons. It is responsible for around 1.6 percent of total world emissions.
Mexico has started negotiations with the United States and Canada, its two partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement, about trilateral collaboration on clean energy and energy efficiency, Elvira added.
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