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This amount includes those who pay the debts at the cut-off date and therefore do not pay interest as well as those using credit card financing.

The sum comes from existing cards (as of October), which are estimated by the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (SUGEF by its initials in Spanish) based on the information given to it by banks and other financial intermediaries.

The figure excludes the amounts owed through card issuers that do not operate as intermediaries,...

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiation between Costa Rica and China put different chambers of Commerce and Industry on the sidewalks.

The industrial sector, on the one hand, attacked the Ministry of Foreign Trade for developing an opinion in favor of an FTA with China, which was described as “limited and very general.”

This agreement projects for exports by Costa Rica to grow 11%, while it projects for imports from China to grow 6%, according estimates.
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After five months of being in Manila, in the Philippine Islands, auditions, advertising campaigns and fashion shows have become the daily bread for the Costa Rican model Cesar Vargas, who works at an agency in that country.

Although he had the option of traveling to China a few months ago, he preferred to stay in the Philippines, where he has received several job offers and where the publicity and activities were in “high season.”

After modeling for various brands, Vargas...

In two months Costa Rica and China will begin to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

The option arose since the establishment of diplomatic relations on June 1, 2007, but had not been formalized until now.

The first of eight rounds of negotiations will take place in San Jose next January 19. The announcement was made yesterday by presidents Oscar Arias of Costa Rica and Hu Jintao of China, following the meeting held on the occasion of the visit by the Asian president...

In Costa Rica, the clean travel system is voluntary and allows a tourist or national to travel by plane and pay to offset the emissions of greenhouse gases generated by this type of transport.

This possibility has been available since 2007 and is coordinated locally by the National Forestry Financing Fund (FONAFIFO by its initials in Spanish). It is done through a special website at FONDO NACIONAL DE FINANCIAMIENTO FORESTAL which calculates the amount of C02 a trip produces and how...