President Oscar Arias said that it is very possible that poverty will increase this year. Arias made this assertion in a radio program known as Our Voice (Nuestra Voz) on Radio Monumental. The reason given as substantiation for this is the increase in food prices, and he added that the same thing will happen in the rest of Latin America.

He also said he felt very happy to be able to have reduced poverty last year, but that given the circumstances it would not be the same this year....

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The MarViva Foundation, which has long been collaborating with the government in the work of joint patrols to prevent illegal fishing, announced the start of permanent patrolling operations throughout the Osa Peninsula area. The goal is to complement the work being done by the National Guard and the rangers of the area who are part of the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet by its initials in Spanish).

In order to do this work, MarViva indicated that...

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