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These are the documents and sticker police say are fakesEscazú police say
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faked vehicle documents By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
If the vehicle cannot pass the mandatory safety inspection known as Riteve, there is another way to keep it on the road. Modern technology makes faking documents easy. The Policia Municipal de Escazú and the Policía de Tránsito allege that is exactly what a man with the last name of Montero did. They stopped him for a routine check Monday and noticed that his Datsun vehicle had seen better days. Still, it has a current safety inspection document and marchamo or road tax form. The police allege that they were false. Police confiscated the documents and the vehicle, but a judge let the defendant go free, said the Escazú police. Robbery suspects to spend four months in prison By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Three men suspected of being part of a robbery band that preyed on taxi drivers will spend the next four months in jail awaiting trial, the Juzgado Penal de Turno Extraordinario ordered Monday. The three were detained by the Fuerza Pública after a taxi driver smashed his vehicle into a wall to break up the robbery. The Fuerza Pública identified them by the last names of Esquivel Marín, Ugalde Picado and Román Brenes. All are Costa Rican. Police said that three men hailed a taxi near the community of La Capri and said they were going to Aserrí. Then they pulled a gun. The taxi driver suffered a bullet wound to the arm and broke a leg in three places in the collision in nearby Lomas del Rancho, San Rafael de Desamparados. Two men fled from the crash, but two suspects were rounded up shortly by police. Telephone books ready to go By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad will announce today the process of distributing the Grupo ICE 2010 telephone book to the country. Typically this is done by the Cruz Roja who accept tips for the rescue organization from telephone customers. The company has competition from private firms that also seek to distribute the telephone numbers. In both case, the publishers are facing a financial squeeze as society moves away from expensive paper to electronic information. The Instituto de Electricidad maintains a full-service directory line for telephone numbers, and many numbers are available on the Internet.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 7 | |||||||||
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A store clerk who is Chinese, fed up with shoplifters, chased a man he thought had stolen products from the Heredia business and fired at the supposed victim. The bullet hit a young man talking with friends on the sidewalk in Guararí de Heredia. The incident took place Saturday evening. Investigators say that the young man has no relationship with the theft. |
The young man, identified by the
last name of Gómez died from the
wound. The store clerk, identified by the last name of Wu, has been
detained. He is 19. Riot police came to the scene after neighbors became agitated over the incident. The Juzgado Penal de Heredia ordered Sunday that the man be held for at least 48 hours. That decision gives prosecutors time to locate a translator and to conduct an interview with Wu, said the Poder Judicial. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A Nicaraguan gambling company said that it has purchased a .cr domain name as a Web site. The site that is not yet fully activated is www.bet.cr. The gambling site is operated by Grupo Beneficial S.A., a Managua, Nicaragua, company that is a subsidiary of Beneficial Holdings, Inc. Beneficial Holdings Inc., said on its Web site that the company owns, operates, manages and is developing or acquiring various gaming/casino facilities in Nicaragua, Panamá, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Additionally, the company will also explore joint venture opportunities with established and well-known gaming companies. The company said it is currently developing an online casino for non-United States residents that will comply with all United States and International gaming laws. The company has an office in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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is illegal in the United States in most areas, and
the federal government has been vigorous in enforcing the laws. Grupo Beneficial said in a news release that it believes that the www.bet.cr domain name provides the company with a short, easy to remember name for its electronic casino. The company said it chose a .cr domain extension because the online casino will be licensed in Costa Rica. Grupo Beneficial believes that the casino will be operational in less than one month. The electronic casino will work through software that users download onto their computer systems. A contract is in place for the development of the custom software, it said. The system will target the non-United States international community and be in several languages including Spanish, German, Italian and English. Users may choose the currency of their choice, the company said. In addition to a casino, the system will also feature a sports book. |
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Teleperformance, the French outsourcing company is launching operations in San Jose Costa Rica. The Costa Rica operations will primarily focus on serving the US domestic market and extends Teleperformance’s global geographic delivery leadership to 49 countries worldwide, the firm said. Teleperformance has already secured a multi-year agreement with an existing client that will be serviced by the newly launched Costa Rica operation. The initial operation includes approximately 300 workstations supporting the U.S.A .and an additional 100 workstations delivering services to the Latin American market, the firms said. |
“This move
strengthens our footprint in Central America and
simultaneously extends our existing industry lead in providing the most
flexible and effective delivery options to our U.S. market clients,"
said Daniel Julien, global CEO and chairman of the board of
Teleperformance. "We are very pleased to welcome Teleperformance Costa
Rica worldwide family.” In 2008 the company had worldwide income of $2.6 billion or about 1.8 euros. The Group operates about 82,000 computerized workstations, with more than 100,000 employees across 268 contact centers in 49 countries and conducts programs in more than 66 different languages and dialects on behalf of major international companies operating in various industries. |
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| San José, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 7 | |||||||||
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drug battle gets a close eye from U.S. By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
On Dec. 16, Mexican marines stormed a luxury apartment in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City, and killed Arturo Beltran Leyva, head of one of the country's largest drug trafficking organizations. A couple of weeks later, authorities arrested his brother, Carlos, further disrupting the command structure of the criminal enterprise. These were portrayed as important victories for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, whose war on drug gangs has been blamed for a wave of violence across the country in the past few years. U.S. officials are applauding Calderon's efforts and trying to offer him as much support as they can. The war against narcotics-trafficking cartels in Mexico is being watched closely by federal law enforcement officials here in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, is spearheading a multi-agency US effort at its field office in Houston. The drug war also is being watched in Costa Rica where much of the raw drugs transit either on land or at sea. Gary Hale, chief of intelligence at the DEA Houston office, says sharing resources and information with the Mexican government has helped President Calderón to disrupt the criminal organizations' operations on the border. "To be realistic, we will never get rid of drug trafficking, per se, but we can have an effect on the overall business and the best effect that we have determined we can have is to disrupt and dismantle. And how do you do that? You go after command and control, you go after the leadership," he said. Since President Calderón began his crusade against organized crime in Mexico in December 2006, thousands of people have died in bloody confrontations between rival gangs and between cartel gunmen and police and military troops. One indication of the brutality of the gangs came a week after the recent raid that resulted in the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, the man known as the boss of bosses in Mexico's criminal underground. Gunmen killed the mother and several relatives of a marine killed during the raid, sending a message of fear to other marines, soldiers and police agents who are battling the cartels. Gary Hale says Mexican authorities realize that the cartels are taking over large parts of Mexico and threatening the nation's sovereignty and that this motivates the soldiers and police agents to carry on the fight. "They are not doing it because they are forced to do it, they are not doing it because they make a lot of money, they're doing it because they are patriots. They are doing it because they love their country and they are doing the right thing," he said. The DEA intelligence chief says the Mexican government efforts are making a difference, especially in reducing the amount of cocaine and other narcotics from South America that makes it over the U.S. border. "The same amount of drugs are reaching Mexico, but they are having a difficult time, because of Calderon's policies, moving those drugs through Mexico and into the United States," he said. Hale says much of the progress comes from the close working relationship U.S. authorities have been able to establish with their Mexican counterparts. "We have tremendous intelligence sharing with them, they have good intelligence capabilities and so do we. We exchange intelligence with them quite frequently. There are occasional links of information or compromises, but, as a trend, they are doing an outstanding job of being partners with DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies of the United States," he said. As for what happens next, now that the Beltran Leyva cartel has been hit hard, Hale says that remains an open question. "On the one hand, the remaining organizations may make peace and carve out territory. On the other hand, the various factions that were fighting before could escalate the violence that they have had between them," he said. The prospect of even more violence between warring drug cartels is not pleasing to Mexicans in border cities that already resemble war zones, but most of the people being killed are involved in the drug trade. What will be crucial, in Hale's view, is a sustained effort by both Mexico and the United States, working in cooperation, to further disrupt and cripple the criminal enterprises that threaten the security of both nations. |
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Venezuela
officially protests airspace violation by U.S. By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Venezuela has sent a formal letter of protest to the United States, alleging a U.S. military plane violated Venezuelan airspace last week after taking off from the nearby Netherlands Antilles. The Venezuelan government Monday presented the formal protest to U.S. diplomats in Caracas. The U.S. denies the accusation. Late last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he ordered two F-16 jets to intercept what he said was a U.S. P-3 aircraft over his country. He said the American plane twice entered his country's airspace from the Netherlands Antilles. Washington has said the U.S. does not fly over another nation's airspace "without prior consent and coordination." In December, Chávez accused the Netherlands of allowing the U.S. to use the Dutch-owned islands off the Venezuelan coast to prepare for an attack on his country. The U.S. has called that assertion "baseless." The United States has long had a military presence on the islands of Aruba and Curacao, with staff involved in drug surveillance operations over the Caribbean. Separately, Chávez has accused the U.S. of launching a spy plane from Colombia into Venezuelan airspace last month. He vowed then to shoot down any such aircraft in the future. Venezuela and Colombia have been at odds over an agreement allowing the U.S. to use seven Colombian military bases for anti-drug operations. Death of tourist investigated By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Investigators are awaiting the full autospy report on a Massachusetts man who died at Playa Potrero Dec. 31 or Jan. 1. The man identified as John Joseph Scibeck was found along side a road in the Pacific beach community. The case has been played up as a murder in the Boston area media, although there is no certainty of foul play. Initial indications are that the man died of asphyxiation, but he was 67. There was no sign of robbery. |
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