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San José, Costa Rica, Friday, March 11, 2016, Vol.
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Our reader’s
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Sanders fan says races are
unprecedentedDear A.M. Costa Rica: Granted, I've not been back to Costa Rica in three years. But I still keep tabs on what is going on via A.M. Costa Rica, the "other" on line newspaper, several Facebook community forums in which I participate, reading La Nación daily, and regular snail mail correspondence with two Tico friends who keep me apprised of how their countrymen view what is happening up here in the States. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I am actively involved in Bernie Sanders' campaign for the White House. I have been on the front lines of mobilizing voter support in states as diverse as Louisiana and Michigan, where Sen. Sanders scored a major and important upset victory over Hillary Clinton March, 8. I've worked in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, where Sanders scored big victories in three of those four New England states. Sanders lost to Mrs. Clinton in my home state of Massachusetts by barely 2 percentage points, despite the fact the state's powerful Democratic party establishment was solidly behind Mrs. Clinton. I want to tip my hat to all the Democrats Abroad in Costa Rica who, in their "primary," demonstrated solid support for Sen. Sanders over Mrs. Clinton. But beyond the Bernie/Hillary race, what is so compelling about this presidential election cycle is that so much of what is happening is, truly, unprecedented, especially in relation to the way in which both major party establishments are seeing their authority and primacy challenged by their respective bases. On the Democratic side, the resentment and frustration over what the base sees as a blatant bias on the part of the so called liberal media for Hillary Clinton is reaching the boiling point. No matter what primary or caucus Sanders prevails in, the liberal media continue to perpetuate the myth that he faces a never ending tough road ahead, and that Mrs. Clinton's massive lead in the delegate count makes it all but impossible for Bernie to ultimately prevail in his quest for the nomination. There is just one problem with that meme. Mrs. Clinton's big edge in the delegate count is not the result of delegates won via the popular vote or primary and caucus victories. It is the result of the existence in the Democratic party of so called super delegates. Such delegates are members of the powerful party establishment who pledge their support to the candidate of their choice before a single popular vote is even cast. As in 2008, Mrs. Clinton started out this election cycle with a significant majority of those several hundred self anointed super delegates pledging their support to her. She was, after all, the Democratic candidate all the conventional wisdom said was not only inevitable as the party's standard bearer, but some how entitled to that honor as well. The emergence of Bernie Sanders as the political force that he has become, however, has turned that conventional political wisdom on its ear. Nearly 80 percent of Democratic primary voters have yet to go to the polls. For the liberal media to continue to minimize that political reality and perpetuate the meme about Hillary being inevitable as or entitled to be the nominee is to ignore history and to insult the intelligence of rank and file Democrats in ways that are as offensive and foolhardy as the Republican establishment's treatment of its base has been in recent years. That treatment has cost the Republican party dearly, and allowed for the emergence of a dangerous, narcissistic, demagogue like Donald Trump to emerge on the scene and threaten the stability of not just the US, but perhaps even the world. What is happening in the Republican party, as the right wing Frankenstein monster the party establishment nurtured, coddled, and enabled for tawdry political gain for decades, and foolishly thought it could control, runs amok through the land, is not just unprecedented. It is frightening. The party my maternal grandfather took such pride in, the party that once produced leaders and public servants of the caliber of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dwight Eisenhower, Margaret Chase Smith, Edward Brooke, Nelson Rockefeller, George Herbert Walker Bush, John McCain, and Sandra Day O'Connor, has, tragically, devolved into the party of crackpots and miscreants like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Congressmen Louie Goehmert and Steve King, Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and, of course, Donald Trump, a man who gives a whole new meaning to what the comedienne Rose Anne Barr called "white trash with cash" way back in the 1990's. So, my fellow Americans in Costa Rica, pay close attention to what is happening up here in the country so many of you, be ye liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, love to bash and denigrate, because what is happening is truly unprecedented and is going to impact your lives down there in the land of the mythical pura vida in ways many of you probably cannot yet imagine. Especially if Das Donald or Señor Cruz should prevail in November. Michael Cook
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| Organized
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A legislative committee approved Thursday and sent to the full assembly a bill that sets up a parallel judicial system to handle organized crime cases. The bill would create separate trial tribunals and separate appeals courts. The bill also calls for providing protection to those judicial workers involved in organized crime cases. The bill grew out of concern about possible criminal penetration of the Poder Judicial and the vulnerability of prosecutors and judges. |
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Dirección de Inteligencia Estratégica Nacional. The bill is concerned mostly with drug organizations, which a preface says become involved in trafficking, piracy, money laundering and other non-drug major crimes. The initial bill described a crime organization being composed of at least two persons who have specific roles in planning to commit a major crime. The committee passed a revised text for which the contents are not yet available. |
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Environmentalists are expressing their pleasure that a bill to reinstitute trawling for shrimp has been withdrawn by the executive branch. Among them is the Fundación MarViva which said that Thursday the executive branch withdrew the measure from the Comisión de Ambiente. The foundation said that also happy were academics, some fishing organizations and members of the Liberación Nacional and Frente Amplio political parties. The Sala IV ruled in August 2013 that trawling was unconstitutional because of the environmental damage it does. |
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the ruling. Shrimp trawlers sometimes trap sea turtles in the nets and also do damage to coral under water. MarViva said that the bill was opposed by 16 different organizations. Those who made their living by trawling for shrimp naturally sought a bill that would allow them to continue working. Casa Presidencial was sympathetic. A revised bill could be sent again to lawmakers. |
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| Google
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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World champion go player Lee Sedol said he was speechless after a second straight loss Thursday to Google's AlphaGo, a new style of intuitive artificial intelligence. Lee and AlphaGo are playing a best-of-five-games, human vs. machine challenge of the ancient Chinese game go, considered one of the most complex board games. "I am quite speechless. I admit it was a very clear loss on my part," Lee told reporters in Seoul after the match. Before the challenge, the 33-year-old had predicted he would beat the supercomputer in a landslide. Appearing grim and ashen after the four-hour match, Lee said he had found no weakness in AlphaGo's performance during Thursday's match. "AlphaGo played a near-perfect game today. . . . . I will try my best so that I will win at least one game." Lee has to win the next three games to be held Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday to win the $1 million cash prize. Even if he loses Saturday's match, he said he will play all five games. However, “the third game is not going to be easy for me,” Lee said Thursday. If AlphaGo wins, Google will donate the money to charity. Wednesday, South Korea and go fans were in shock after the computer program beat Lee, who has won 18 world championships. |
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An example of a game in progress.Hundreds of thousands of people are watching the games live on TV in Asia and on Google's DeepMind YouTube channel. AlphaGo's creators have described go as the Mount Everest of AI, citing the complexity of the game, which requires a degree of creativity and intuition to prevail over an opponent. Go, which originated in China more than 2,500 years ago, is a complex game with an almost incalculable number of move options. The game involves two players who take turns placing black and white stones on a grid-shaped board. The winner is the player who manages to seal off more territory. The most famous AI victory to date was in 1997, when the IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue beat then-world class chess champion Garry Kasparov. |
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China as being problematic By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The United States and Western countries have criticized what they said was China’s ongoing problematic human rights record. The criticism was in an unprecedented joint statement issued Thursday during a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. A U.S. State Department official said this joint statement is the first collective action taken regarding China at the Human Rights Council since its inception in 2007. Chinese diplomat Fu Cong vigorously rejected the U.S.-led criticism. He in turn criticized the U.S. for crimes including the rape and murder of civilians. Fu told the council “the U.S. is notorious for prison abuse at Guantanamo prison. Its gun violence is rampant. Racism is its deep-rooted malaise." State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said on Thursday during the daily briefing that disagreement on human rights issues between two countries will not affect overall cooperation. “We are by no means perfect,” said Toner. The joint statement called recent cases of unexplained disappearances and apparent coerced returns of Chinese and foreign citizens from outside mainland China unacceptable extraterritorial actions, as well as out of step with the expectations of the international community and a challenge to the rules-based international order. Five Hong Kong booksellers, including owner Gui Minghai, have gone missing since last October. They were thought to have been abducted and taken into Beijing’s custody for selling literature banned in mainland China. Earlier this month, two of the Causeway Bay bookshop employees were released briefly and allowed to return to Hong Kong. After they requested the police to drop their cases of missing persons, two booksellers were reported going straight back to the mainland. The joint statement also expressed concern about the increasing number of individuals whose confessions have been aired on state media prior to any indictment or judicial process. In late February, a prominent Chinese rights lawyer Zhang Kai confessed on state television to disturbing social order. He has been helping to defend Christians resisting authority’s orders to remove crosses from buildings. Zhang was arrested last year shortly before a planned meeting with the U.S. envoy on religious freedoms. Following Zhang Kai’s purported confession, the State Department urged China to release Zhang and others “detained for seeking to peacefully uphold the freedom of religion guaranteed in China’s constitution.” Human Rights Watch’s China director, Sophie Richardson, applauded the joint statement, saying it took an unprecedented and courageous stand condemning China’s relentless crackdown on human rights. The joint statement was endorsed by the United States, Ireland, the U.K., Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Repeal of blasphemy laws urged to promote basic rights By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The special U.N. investigator on freedom of religion or belief is calling for the universal repeal of blasphemy laws, saying they restrict freedom of expression and promote hatred of and intolerance toward minority religions. In a report submitted Thursday to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Heiner Bielefeldt said freedom of religion and freedom of expression are mutually reinforcing, allowing both rights to flourish, but that blasphemy laws cast a pall over these basic rights. He said religious minorities suffer most from the chilling effects the laws create. Bielefeldt said Pakistan is known for its draconian blasphemy laws that even carry the death penalty. Although the ultimate sentence has never been carried out, he said many people accused of blasphemy are on death row. The investigator said studies show that religious minorities in Pakistan who suffer disproportionally from the laws include Shi’ites, Christians and Ahmadis, who are accused of not being true Muslims. But, he noted numerous countries in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and even Europe have blasphemy laws on the books. Bielefeldt said Germany, Denmark, Poland and Greece either have laws that hark back to the old colonial period or, what he calls, post-blasphemy laws. These, he said, are not meant to honor God, but to protect religious feelings. He said that Russia also has tightened its blasphemy laws. “Russia, also in the U.N. Human Rights Council now, really has taken over the torch from Pakistan to argue for the protection of the feelings of ordinary believers, which means mainly, of course, Orthodox believers. So, usually these blasphemy laws protect majorities, the feelings of majorities, while minorities pay the price,” Bielefeldt said. In the interest of clarity and credibility, Bielefeldt said European countries should clean up the old-fashioned blasphemy laws or post-blasphemy laws as the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe has demanded. While the laws are largely associated with Muslim countries, he said they also exist within Hindu, Buddhist and Christian societies. He said they often are used to stifle critical voices and breed intolerance, discrimination and hatred against people based on religious belief. In Central Asian countries and Russia, Bielefeldt said religious minorities increasingly are being targeted and arrested in the name of fighting extremism. While fighting extremism is a legitimate concern, he said this must not be done at the expense of restricting people’s basic human rights. U.S. health officials predicting massive numbers of zika cases By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The top U.S. disease prevention official said Thursday that there could be hundreds of thousands of zika cases in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico in the coming months if precautions are not taken. Tom Frieden, chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters he was making Puerto Rico his top priority in the fight against the virus. "Nothing about zika is going to be quick, and nothing about zika is going to be easy," Frieden said. "We can't eliminate zika at this point, but we can protect people and greatly reduce the impact." The mosquito-borne virus is especially dangerous for pregnant women. Frieden, who visited the Caribbean island this week, said that just two weeks ago, Puerto Ricans appeared unconcerned about zika. That's not true now, he said. "Every pregnant woman we talked with is taking this very seriously," he said. "They all have heard of zika. They are all very worried about zika. They want help and support to protect themselves against zika." Friden said he was especially concerned about the large number of women in Puerto Rico who said they did not want to get pregnant but did not use birth control. He said these women clearly should be using contraception. Most zika cases are mild, and many victims never show any symptoms. But the virus is suspected of causing pregnant women to give birth to babies affected by microcephaly, a defect that leaves them with unusually small heads and brains. Brazil, which has been hit hardest by zika, has reported more than 4,000 cases of microcephaly since October. Health experts are strongly advising women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant to avoid traveling to countries affected by zika, including much of Latin America. Since the World Health Organization declared the zika virus a public health emergency, scientists have linked it to paralysis and brain infections in adults, but the virus has saved its most horrifying outcome for developing fetuses. A study at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore showed that zika infects and kills the very cells that form the developing brain. Another study, this one at the University of California-Los Angeles in conjunction with researchers at the Fiocruz Institute in Brazil, "found a strong link between zika and adverse pregnancy outcomes, which haven’t been documented before,” according to Karin Nielsen, the senior author of the study at the university’s School of Medicine. Olympic athletes still planning to compete in Brazilian games By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The countdown is under way to the Summer Olympics, which will start on August 5 in Rio de Janeiro. U.S. athletes who met this week with reporters in California said they are focused on the competition, despite health concerns, including zika virus, which is spreading in Brazil. The mosquito-borne virus causes mild infections in most people, but poses a risk to unborn babies. It has been linked to microcephaly, a condition in which children are born with abnormally small heads, and other defects. The World Health Organization has urged pregnant women to avoid travel to areas where the zika virus is spreading, including Brazil, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said pregnant women should consider not going to the Olympics. U.S. women's soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo said if she had to make the decision now, she would not go to Rio. At the Team USA media summit, Paralympic swimmer Jessica Long said each Olympic site has its challenges “and this is just another thing out of my control. And I'm going to Rio to compete,” she said. The Paralympics, for athletes with physical disabilities, will follow the Olympics and start Sept. 7. Rio Olympics organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada says the games will take place during winter in the Southern Hemisphere, when mosquito-borne infections are less likely. He said precautions can reduce the risk, including wearing long sleeves. "Keep the windows closed during the evenings, use the air conditioning, use repellents whenever you're competing outside,” he said. Polluted waters are a concern to canoers, rowers and open water swimmers, but sailing competitor Briana Provancha says her team has made eight visits to Brazil and spent many days on the water. “We're prepared,” she said, adding that the athletes are “trying really hard to not make that a distraction.” Her teammate, Annie Haeger, says Brazilians face higher risks than athletes. “We’re going to be down there for a week, and then we go back to our homes,” she said. “And people down there in Rio are actually the people that we actually should be concerned about because they’re dealing with that water every single day.” For Brazil, the road to Rio has been rocky. Construction on some Olympic venues has been plagued with problems, but spokesman Andrada said all should be ready for the games. The only delay announced so far is for a cycling test event initially planned for March at the velodrome and postponed for six weeks. Islamic State documents seen as mixture of true and faked By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Nagging doubts are tempering expectations that a purported trove of data files stolen from the Islamic State will help unmask the terror group's foreign fighter network and perhaps lead to a crippling blow against the self-declared caliphate. Counterterrorism experts in the United States, Britain, Germany and other countries are studying the tens of thousands of files obtained by Britain's Sky News from someone it described as an Islamic State defector. The former Islamic State fighter claimed he stole a memory stick from the head of the terror organization's internal security wing. The files are believed to hold information about more than 22,000 of the group's members, recruits and sympathizers. Reports from Britain, Germany and Syria said the files contained information about jihadists from 51 countries, including 23 questions that Islamic State recruits must answer before they can be accepted as members of the extremist organization. "We believe there is a high probability that these documents are genuine," a spokesman for Germany's Federal Criminal Police said. But some Western intelligence officials and analysts have raised concerns about the files, suggesting that genuine information may be mixed with forged documents in order to drive up their sale price. A Western intelligence official who has seen the documents said that these officials and analysts think the files don’t provide full details on 22,000 fighters, as widely reported, but only on 1,736 fighters. Most of the fighters identified come from 40 countries. A quarter are Saudis and the rest mainly Tunisian, Moroccan and Egyptian. Only a small proportion, the source said, are from the West. Four are Americans, and a half dozen are from Canada. European recruits listed are from France, Germany and Britain. The British names were all previously known, and the identified fighters crossed into Syria from Turkey in November and December 2013. There also are concerns that the files have been shopped around for more than a year, in what may be part of a growing attempt to meet a demand for information on the Islamic State. In recent weeks, vendors have been offering for sale in southern Turkey, especially in the border towns of Gaziantep and Urfa, documents and thumb drives.  White House
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau of Canada review the troops during the State
Arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House.Obama welcomes
Trudeau
and stresses national links By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
services
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed fellow progressive leader Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the White House Thursday for the first such state visit in nearly two decades. "We're woven together so deeply as societies, as economies, that it's sometimes easy to forget how truly remarkable our relationship is,'' Obama said during a joint news conference with Trudeau. During an arrival ceremony earlier in the day, Obama highlighted shared values noting universal health care, freedom of religion and the diversity in both nations. "As NATO allies we stand united against terrorism, and for the rights of nations like Ukraine to determine their own destiny. As leaders at the United Nations, we stand up for peace and security and the human rights of all people," the American president said. On the White House South Lawn, a crowd cheered as Obama and Trudeau shook hands with onlookers, some gushing "Oh my gosh." Like the U.S. president, 44-year old Trudeau campaigned on a similar message of hope and change. His Liberal Party swept Canada's parliamentary election last October, unseating Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party, who had been in power since 2006. "Mr. Prime Minister, your election and the first few months in office have brought a new energy and dynamism not only to Canada, but to the relationship between our nations. We have a common outlook on the world. And I have to say, I have never seen so many Americans so excited about the visit of a Canadian prime minister," Obama said. The two leaders focused on fighting climate change, boosting trade and fighting the Islamic State militant group during talks Thursday in the Oval Office, before holding a news conference in the Rose Garden that centered mostly on the state of U.S. politics in this presidential election year. When asked about the potential effect on the U.S.-Canada relationship, should Republican candidate Donald Trump be elected American president, the Canadian prime minister, whom some call the "anti-Trump," spoke broadly. "The friendship between our two countries goes far beyond any two individuals or any ideologies," Trudeau noted. "I have tremendous confidence in the American people and look forward to working with whomever they choose to send to this White House later this year." Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. The new Canadian leader was seen personally greeting Syrian refugees at the Toronto airport with the words "Welcome home, you are home." Canada has accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees into the country. |
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Ciudad Neily, Golfito arts
festival sites By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Culture ministry officials amplified their decision Thursday and said that this year’s arts festival will be held in Ciudad Neily and Golfito. The ministry had said the event would be in the southern zone. This will be the 26th annual edition of the Festival de las Artes, and this year the title does not contain the word internacional. The festival last year was a disaster, in part because the ministry tried to place some of the events in other cantons. The decision this year is consistent with the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo, said the Ministerio de Cultura y Juvenud. This year some 500 million colons, nearly $1.4 million, is earmarked for the event, which will be from Aug. 5 to 14. Additional events will be organized for Río Claro, Conte, Ciudad Cortés, Palmar, Rey Curré, San Vito, La Cuesta/Laurel and Agua Buena, said the ministry. Jokester blacklisted over his video By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The security ministry said it has barred the visit of a Nicaraguan comedian because his life would be in danger. That was the excuse announced Thursday for putting the name of Reynaldo Ruiz on the immigration blacklist. Ruiz and an associate, José Ramón Quintanilla, make up the Grupo INN. They were scheduled to perform next week at an entertainment event directed mostly for Nicaraguans. A Nicaraguan restaurant was the organizer. The show has been canceled as a result of the government action. The Ministerio de Seguridad Pública said it had taken the action in order to preserve the public order. An announcement added that workers for the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería at the various border crossings and airports had been instructed to bar the comedian. Th announcement said that the government respects liberty of expression but also considers more important the physical integrity of artists. But it also cited xenophobic actions by small sectors in both countries. The announcement did not make clear if the ministry was talking about third parties or the comedian.
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| From Page 7: Inspectors on the prowl for unregistered items By the A.M. Costa Rica
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The health ministry said that it has inspected 12 establishments in San José Centro, Tibás, Aserrí and Alajuela Centro and confiscated 6,840 products already this month. The locations were mainly supermarkets, distributors and health food outlets. In addition to the Ministerio de Salud, inspectors came from the Ministerio de Economía Industria y Comercio, the Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal and the local municipal police, it said. The goal of the inspections was to verify that the products on sale were correctly registered with the health ministry and correctly labeled, said a report. The economics ministry is interested in the correct labeling of products. |
