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Capital punishment shouldbe considered for some Dear A.M. Costa Rica: To expand on Robert Nahrgang's great suggestion to use corporal punishment as a crime deterrent; I would add capital punishment. Should the recent rapist of a 3-year-old girl be merely incarcerated for a dozen years? I have had extensive experience working in jails, prisons, juvenile detention centers, and as the head of the ten-member San Luis Obispo Youth Guidance Council, etc. My largely successful approach was to use the convicting and convincing power of the Bible, the Word of God. To make any type of punishment viable; it MUST BE RAPIDLY METED OUT! Solomon wrote; "Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Ecc. 8:11 John W. Erb
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Separation of church, state is key to successful nation Dear A.M. Costa Rica: To all Egyptians living in Costa Rica and all others who see their “people power” revolution as a new beginning for democracy and freedom. Take it from a very experienced man who is 71, lived in nine countries and spent time in 21 more including three years in Turkey. The number one fundamental and basic foundation of a SUCCESSFUL nation is: Separation of church and state. In the 20s Mustafa Kemal, later known as Attaturk, turned Turkey from east to west and from religious dominance to secular democracy. His legacy endures today. The U.S. Constitution enshrines that crucial separation and is the bedrock of our freedom — freedom from religious dogma, repression and suppression. Northern European nations which are mostly secular enjoy democracy, peace and prosperity. The lesson is clear and obvious: Religion’s agenda is not democratic and does not belong in government. If Egypt can accomplish that, in the next few years it will shine brightly and light the path for other nations longing to be free from the tyranny of ignorance created by insular and powerful religious institutions. Duggo Hix
Tampa Florida Taxes are misplaced and prices reflect greed Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Costa Rica has the highest taxes of any country that I have been in (11) and the highest prices because of the taxes and greed. Case in point. I recently bought a new refrigerator. I could have bought it in the U.S. for $720. Here I paid $1,400, and it was priced at $1,700 in one store. And now it seems that all the politicians can think of is more taxes on almost everything that everyone needs or has to have. But no one has to have cigarettes or alcohol. Cigarettes in the U.S. are around $4 a pack. In Canada over $10 a pack but only $1.50 here. Why don’t they add tax on these items and leave things people need alone like their electric bills, medical bills, food bills, etc. Power here is over three times what I pay in Missouri. Food is from one to as much as four times as much: i.e. potatoes, $11 to $12 for 6.6 lbs. In Missouri, $3 for 10 lbs. Robert Woodrow
Curridabat Country did not keep up with trends to violence Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I've been reading with much interest the letters of resident's suggestions to reduce crime. All are very good, although there are some draconian offerings that are very telling of the frustration expats have. Through the 1960s, Costa Rica was a place of low crime and folk-sacred societal values. As Costa Rica caught up with the rest of the world, the laws remained from a less violent time. If there is to be any hope, it is with the people who are living in country to demand a change from their leaders. Also, this could be helped by reporting each and every crime and having what was called block-watch community groups here in the U.S.A. The more pressure applied on elected officials to grasp the fact that Costa Rica is not all Pura Vida, the better, in my estimation. Our dream of retirement there is turning into nightmarish scenarios of loss of property, life and limb, and overall peace. It is obvious to anyone with a realistic view that the rose colored glasses should be tossed in the trash, and only a concerted effort will bring about change. The country needs to act as one. Not native born and expat being two separate groups. All have a vested interest in a secure life and a prosperous country. May Costa Rica enjoy again the once carefree days of Pura Vida. Al Loria
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Integrated security plan outlined Monday by President Laura Chinchilla calls for a balanced intervention for prevention, attention and protection, control, reparation and reintegration in accordance with human development and democratic values of Costa Rica. The responsibility for fighting crime will be shared among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the government. Representatives signed an agreement to that effect Monday. Specifically named are the Comisión de Seguridad Ciudadana of the executive branch, the Comision Especial Legislativa de Seguridad Ciudadana of the Asamblea Legislativa and the Comisión de Asuntos Penales of the Poder Judicial. The document also calls for extensive analysis of the results within the various institutions. The plan is supposed to last 10 years. The president and lawmakers will be out of office in three years, so the plan appears to bind their successors. The agreement was signed at a session in the Museo de los Niños Monday by the president, Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge, president of the legislature, and Luis Paulino Mora Mora, president of the Poder Judicial. This is the long-awaited security plan. The president presented the proposal in conjunction with the Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, which conducted months of extensive interviews and meetings with many types of citizen groups. The contribution of the local office of the United Nations was not immediately obvious. The proposal is called the Política Integral y Sostenible de Seguridad Ciudadana y Promoción de la Paz Social, which translated to an integrated and sustainable policy of citizen security and promotion of the social peace. In her speech introducing the plan, Ms. Chinchilla called for a crusade, the most important that the country should take on. "A crusade for the most fundamental rights as the respect for life and physical integrity and the peace. A crusade that permits us to reconquer our so special form of life and celebrate with peace and security from now until 10 years the bicentennial of the independence of our nation." An outline, according to Casa Presidencial, would be the urgent professionalization of the Fuerza Pública, involvement of local governments in stopping crime and violence, mechanisms for control of corruption, effective intervention against violence toward women as well as immediate actions to return youngsters permanently to the educational system. There also was mention of a program to cure drug addiction. Ms. Chinchilla said she was forming a working group to determine the actions suggested by the plan, which would endure long after her administration ends. Ms. Chinchilla also said that many of the suggestions of the proposal already are underway and included in the national development plan. These include putting 1,000 new police officers on the streets, identification of 32 hectares for a new police academy, the dismemberment of 120 criminal drug organizations and the creation of a |
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Laura Chinchilla signs an agreement among the three powers
while Luis Paulino Mora Mora, president of the Poder Judicial,
watches. Hidden is Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge, president of the
legislature.frontier police which will be ready in March. The Poder Judicial later characterized the plan as a public policy directed to orienting the actions of the state in matters of citizen security. The plan itself is set out around six goals, according to Casa Presidencial: 1. The development of actions to overcome the conditions of vulnerability in the face of crime and violence. 2. The creation of spaces and conditions to strengthen a culture of social peace and human development; 3. The creation of capacities in state institutions to consider the levels of optimal efficiency for guaranteeing citizen security; 4. The development of actions to eliminate the most outstanding forms of violence and victimization. 5. Effective attention to rehabilitating victims of violence and crime; 6. The breaking up of criminal drug networks and other forms of organized criminality Luiza Carvalho, local representative of the United Nations, said that her agency received 4,600 written statements from 16 different community workshops. The agency received 73 formal documents from institutions and organizations and conducted 12 topical sessions with interest groups, she said. There were more than 1,000 telephone calls, e-mails and other contacts. The various committees will study these documents as well as the overall plan that resulted from them. In another security development Monday, agents of the Policia Nacional de Colombia were in the country and promised to provide technical cooperation with the security ministry. As part of the agreement Fuerza Pública officers might go to Colombia for training, according to the ministry. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Chinchilla administration security proposal was greeted with some skepticism Monday by those who read an early afternoon update. "She's forming another committee," said a Costa Rican woman who lives in the United States. Others said they were surprised that there were no concrete proposals. There was a brief mention of more prisons, but |
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that A.M. Costa Rica readers have been putting forth for a week. The full details of the proposals have not been made known, but the general outlines suggest more social work than crime fighting. For example, Ms. Chinchilla proposed reducing the number of school dropouts. Dropouts frequently turn to crime, but the link is indirect. She also proposed treatment for addiction. Readers appeared to be looking for a more direct action. |
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The Dirección General de Tributación, the tax collecting agency, has published a list of 100 entities that did not pay the luxury home tax this year even though they paid last year. The list is mainly corporations, although some individuals are named. The accompanying cédulas show that all those named are Costa Rican. There are several thousand entities, individuals and corporations, that have not paid the tax. Tributación seems to be using the first 100 names as a threat. The list was as of Jan. 31, the agency said. The names represent 106.1 million colons of uncollected taxes, the agency said. That is about $212,200. |
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dwellings worth more than 100 million colons. And this is the second year that the taxes have been collected. Tributación workers speculated that some individuals may have thought that the tax was a one-time event. Tributación has moved slowly to find and extract taxes from luxury homeowners. A complicating factor is that with the devaluation of the U.S. dollar some homeowners who had to pay tax last year might not have to pay the special tax this year because their home dipped under 100 million colons. Below is a list of the 100 individuals and corporations that paid last year but not this year. |
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the name is the cédula. ACTIVOS INMOBILIARIOS UNO Q A S.A. 3101238737 AGRICOLA GANADERA JABUEY S A 3101077670 AKYRA SA 3101019792 ALEJANDRA FLORES ARROYO 108670152 ALVARADO ROJAS OLMAN GERARDO 105860941 AMNEZIA S A 3101274622 ARMANDO CAJAS SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101370042 AUTILLO ALTOS DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SIETE SA 3101270170 BALCHETA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101274527 BRENCAL S A 3101217167 BRISA VISTA MAR UNO S.A. 3101262400 CARDAN C J D B SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101225521 CARIARI ESTE OESTE PUNTO CAR SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101303585 CARLOS LUIS SANCHO JUAREZ 601220519 CARRYSE S A 3101088142 CASA DEL SOL SETENTA Y SEIS DE SANTA ANA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101399611 CECILIANO CONSULTORES SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101023612 CEL CONSORCIO ESTRATEGICO LEGAL S A 3101187595 CERROS DE CASTELMARE S A 3101120116 COLINAS DEL TEMPISQUE S.A. 3101259878 CONSTRUCTORA MAFE SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101086269 CORPORACION B L CIENTO SESENTA Y NUEVE DE SANTA ANA SA 3101187850 CORPORACION B L CINCUENTA Y SIETE DE SANTA ANA SA 3101146258 CORPORACION B L SESENTA Y SEIS DE SANTA ANA SA 3101147005 CORPORACION B L TREINTA Y SEIS S A 3101128815 COSTA DEL AZAHAR S A 3101320029 COSTA MONTAÑA ESTATES ORQUIDEA CERO CERO OCHO S.A. 3101449097 CUDILLERO MST SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101280818 DENIS CRISTOBAL KABISTAN FLORES 800650852 DESARROLLOS PUERTOCITO OCHO S A 3101198423 DISENOS DE ARQUITECTURA Y MOBILIARIO CHACO SA 3101059584 DISTRIBUIDORA CONSUELO SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101216199 DISTRIBUIDORA DE HUE VOS Y PAN S S SA 3101180100 DISTRIBUIDORA J A BRENES Y BRENES S A 3101248373 EDIFICADORA CONTEMPORANEA ADJ SOCIE 3101308492 EL MONASTERIO CUASIA S.A. 3101264188 EL MONASTERIO DE CRONOS S.A. 3101264273 ELET ALTOS TRESCIENT OS TREINTA Y UNO SA 3101226408 EMPRESA IMPORTADORA FORTIS S A 3101127426 ENDLESS ADVENTURES COMPAÑY S A 3101262343 FEDERVA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 3101371640 FILIAL CONDOMINIO DANZA DEL RIO COBALTO LUGAR VEINTIOCHO SA 3101349817 FILIAL CONDOMINIO DANZA DEL RIO YAMA MENDELEVIO ONCE SA 3101349640 GALIBERIA S A 3101166599 GANADERA GUACHIPELIN DEL SUR S A 3101026858 GERENXIA INTERNACIONAL CONSULTORES S A 3101309902 GET TWO COSTA RICA INTERNATIONAL TRAVELS SA 3101374264 GIOVANNA VIETO RUDIN 107330147 GIPIERES ALTOS DOSCIENTOS NUEVE S.A. 3101226159 |
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| Jazz king George Shearing dies in New York at 91 By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Famed jazz pianist and composer George Shearing, 91, died Monday of heart failure in New York City. Shearing was born in England but settled in the United States in 1947. His recording career lasted more than six decades and included albums with some of the top names in jazz. Despite being blind, George Shearing became one of the world's most popular performers. George Shearing appeared on the American jazz scene in the early 1940s with a series of successful recordings that featured a fine-tuned rhythm section of guitar, bass, drums and vibraphone. He was already quite famous in England, but after the release of his hit song "September In the Rain," his quintet rose to new heights. Shearing was born blind in London Aug. 13, 1919. He began playing piano at age 3 and soon fell in love with the music of Earl Hines, Fats Waller, and Art Tatum. At 19, he performed jazz accordion in Claude Bampton's all-blind band and got his first real taste of show business. "One night, we were all ready to go. 15 blind musicians taught to play instruments from being chair caners and basket makers and so on," Shearing said. "Now, we're all ready to go in the theatre and the stage manager says 'Ok fellas.' And someone's glass eye had fallen out, rolled across the stage, 15 blind guys down on the floor looking for this eye. They found it and gave it to him, and he put it in and the show got underway." Shearing won over American audiences with his own style of boogie-woogie, blues and jazz swing which later became known as "The Shearing Sound." One of his best-known compositions is the jazz standard “Lullaby of Broadway,” co-written with lyricist George David Weiss. Critics were enamored of his heartfelt melodies often described as "romantic" and "whimsical." Shearing once said the birth of rock 'n' roll gave a new dimension to his repertoire. "We have benefited from the embryonic stages of rock and roll which started probably in the early '50's, and are now the glad recipients, most of the time, of a healthy integration between jazz, folk and rock," he said. Over the years, Shearing's ever-changing personnel included singers Mel Torme, Carmen McRae and Peggy Lee, as well as Joe Pass, Cal Tjader and Hank Jones. His 1962 album "Nat 'King Cole' Sings, George Shearing Plays" features one of the most famous piano introductions of all time on the selection "Let There Be Love." In 1976, he collaborated with the great French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli for the critically-acclaimed album "Reunion." In 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BBC Jazz Awards. Shearing avoided the trappings of jazz fusion, synthesizers and electronics that arrived late in his career. He believed that more volume didn't necessarily mean better music. "I know that there is quite a bit of talent around, and it's too loud," Shearing said. "And it's a shame." At the peak of his career, George Shearing was immortalized in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel “On The Road.” Upon seeing Shearing in a Chicago nightclub, Kerouac wrote, "as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer-night's use." Colombian rebels free just one of promised three By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Colombian officials say rebels who had announced plans to release three hostages Sunday have released only one so far. Authorities say the Fuerza Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, released police officer Carlos Ocampo, who was kidnapped in December. However, the other two hostages, police Maj. Guillermo Solorzano and Army Cprl. Salin Sanmiguel, remain in captivity. Colombia says the rebels provided false coordinates for the location of the hostages, placing them in Tolima state when the men were instead in Cauca state. Eduardo Pizarro, the government representative in the hostage negotiations, said providing the wrong information was "scandalous." However, there is some indication bad weather may have interfered with the transfer plans. Solorzano was captured in June 2007, while Sanmiguel was kidnapped in May 2008. |
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met well-armed surprise By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The central Pacific coast from Parrita to Mata Palo has been plagued by a band of robbers who, among other crimes, would smash their way into homes and tie up the occupants. This has been going on since September. Judicial agents got a tip that the next home invasion would be Monday night. And they were told where. Agents quickly hustled the homeowners from the dwelling and filled the place in Loma de Parrita with a tactical squad. When the crooks broke through the front door they found heavily armed police instead of the occupants they were expecting. One tried to flee through a window. Agents detained a 38-year-old man, two twins, 21, and a pirate taxi driver. Police said the gang carried 12-gauge shotguns and were unselective in their targets. They raided stores as well as homes. During home invasions the gang would usually steal a vehicle to carry away the loot, mostly household goods. The gang targeted homeowners who appeared to have money, agents said. Agents attributed at least 20 such crimes to the suspects. The three suspects have been detained in the past but were freed without preventative detention, agents said. One suspect actually is in jail but has permission to leave his cell several times a week, agents said. More suspects may be sought, agents said. Fuel prices going up when new rates published By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Motor fuel is going up again. The Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos said that super gasoline will go to 621 colons ($1.24) per liter, an increase of 13 colons. Plus gasoline is going to 605 colons ($1.21), an increase of 15 colons. Diesel goes up 17 colons to 544 colons ($1.09), the agency said. The new rates will go into effect when the edict from the agency is published in the La Gaceta official newspaper. That is expected to be Monday. The rates will bring the price of fuel in Costa Rica to $4.70 for a U.S. gallon of super, $4.58 for plus and $4.12 for diesel. Down home Indiana food trade mission centerpiece By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
U.S. food producers will be promoting wines, meats, cheeses and other foods at a public event Thursday in the Hotel Real Intercontinental in Escazú from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., said a U.S. Embassy release. The idea is to get the public and commercial outlets here to learn about the U.S. products. Chefs David and Kristen Tallent of Bloomington, Indiana, are in charge of preparing the foodstuffs and selecting the appropriate wines, the embassy said. They have a restaurant in their hometown, called Restaurant Tallen. The restaurant specializes in local southern Indiana dishes, according to its Web page. By no coincidence, U.S. Ambassador Anne S. Andrew is from Indiana. However, the wine is coming from California. Animal adoptions planned By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The organization Animales de Asis plans an adoption fair Saturday in Escazú from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Automercado. Puppies, dogs, kittens and cats will be available. The organization requests a donation of 10,000 colons for dogs and 6,000 colons for cats to cover part of the cost of castrating, vaccinating and deworming. |
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