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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, March 22, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 56 | |||||||||
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Alajuela hosted this show by the group
Identidades
Alajuela also has its share
of arts festival events By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Alajuela has not been left out by the organizers of the Festival Internacional de las Artes. A parallel series of presentations is being made there while the bigger show is in San Jose's Parque la Sabana. The center of the activity in Alajuela is on the esplanade of Parque Juan Santamaría and in the Teatro Municipal. There are dance, theater, musical and story-telling groups. The events continue daily through March 28. There are private workshops for performers through April 3. An attraction Sunday was the Coro de Niños Sinoli from Alto Quetzal, Bajo Chirripó. At la Sabana Sunday President Óscar Arias Sánchez was a popular attraction. Arias spent three hours at the various events and stands. A number of Sunday visitors took his photo and sought autographs. The paths for the stands for creative works was packed. Groups from 22 countries are at the festival. Events also are taking place in Limón Last chance for work with official agencies By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
This is the last full week before private and public employees take their Semana Santa vacation. Many businesses will close Friday for a full week. Public employees also have the following week off, although certain agencies, like the courts will keep critical services available. Thursday, April 1, and Friday, April 2, are legal holidays. The state banks will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but Banco Nacional will close at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. That bank's office at the Golfito free trade Depósito will also be closed Monday, April 5. Online banking is supposed to continue 24 hours a day. Arias plans quick trip to Colombia and Uribe By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
President Óscar Arias Sánchez is planning a quick, one-day trip to Colombia Tuesday. Casa Presdiencial said he will recieve the keys to the city of Bogotá, but he hardly will have time to use them because he is flying back the same day. Arias will be placing a floral offering at the monument of Simón Bolívar, and then he will have lunch with Álvaro Uribe, the Colombian president. Going with Arias will be Janina del Vecchio, the security minister. Uribe plans to award Arias the Orden de San Carlos, a medal designed to honor Colombians and foreigners who have earned the gratitude of Colombia, according to Casa Presidencial. Arias will return to Costa Rica in the evening.
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| The Rev. Alfonso Barquero says
the Mass in which he praised Acueducto Rural for purchasing the land in
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| Naranjo group seeking to inventory, protect water sources |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Some 200 persons from the Municipalidad de Naranjo made the trek to the Zona Protectora El Chayote Sunday for a Catholic Mass initiating their campaign for protecting water sources. The event also was to honor Acueducto Rural in Dulce Nombre de Naranjo for buying seven hectares (17.3 acres) in the protected zone. The residents will present a petition to the municipal council Monday asking that water sources within the municipality be pinpointed and protected. Today also happens to be the International Day of Water. The petition is being sponsored by the Comité de Lucha por la Defensa de la Zona Protectora, a local group. |
The protected zone, some 841
hectares, more than 2,000 acres, contains
water sources that feed four major rivers, the Río Grande de
Tárcoles,
the Río San Carlos, the Río Barranca and the Río
Toro Amarillo. The
protected zone is also in Alfaro Ruiz. The petition asked the municipal council to bring in experts from the Escuela Centroamericana de Geologia of the Universidad de Costa Rica to study the hydrology of the entire municipality and inventory water sources. The group also wants any project near water sources suspended until the study is completed. The group also will ask the council to create a regulation restricting development near sources of water. Among those at the Mass Sunday was the municipal mayor, Eugenio Padilla. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A three-judge panel ordered a U.S. citizen accused of murder to be sent to the national psychiatric hospital instead of prison. The man is Frederick Norman Kelch. He was the Moravia resident who put on a ski mask, got on his roof and began firing at the window of a neighboring house. Killed was a man inside that house, a physician named Harlan Fonseca Reyes. Fonseca's wife, Ligia Chaverri Oreamuno, nearly died, too, but a concrete column blocked a bullet Kelch meant for her. She was trying to administer first aid. After the shooting, Kelch barricaded himself in his home for eight hours. Prosecutors accept the defense contention that Kelch was not guilty of the murder allegation because of his mental state. Judges found that he was responsible but acquitted him of a charge of trying to kill Fonseca's wife. He was sent to the hospital for an indefinite term. |
The case was heard in the Tribunales
de Justicia in Goicoechea. The
three judges characterized him as highly dangerous and ordered that he
continue on a program of medication that was started after his arrest. After the killing, there were some hard questions for officials because Kelch had managed to stay in the country for eight years on an expired tourist visa. In addition, he was named in a 2003 La Nación article as having ties to New York's Gambino crime family. The newspaper identifies Kelch as an ex-convict and also displayed a portion of a court document from Florida that shows he was under investigation for illegal gambling and other charges in Florida and New York. Kelch was working for a sportsbook in the San Pedro Mall at the time. Police officials and investigators never took action as a result of the article. |
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, March 21, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 56 | |||||||||
| River cleanup The Comité Bandera Azul Ecológica de San Miguel de Santo Domingo de Heredia was out on the Río Tibás over the weekend cleaning up trash. The plastic and bottles recovered were sent for recycling. The organization said that despite the trash there were plenty of signs of wildlife along the river and fish in the water. The group members also said they were filing a complaint against two sources of pollution, the same ones they reported last year. |
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A police task force descended on bars and nightclubs in central San José Friday night and discovered a hiding place where dancers and others used when police arrived. The hiding place was in the Atlantis night club, the security ministry said. There officers found a hole in the floor covered with a wood top that housed two women and two men. One of the women was a Nicaraguan who is barred from entering the country. Police suspect that she entered illegally through the porous northern border. A Venezuelan woman there was working as a dancer on a tourist visa, agents said. One of the men was a Colombian refugee, and the second was illegally in the country. Agents also found that the bartender was the subject of a warrant for an allegation of sexually abusing a minor. He was detained. |
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the Fuerza Pública, The Unidad de Trata y Tráfico de
Personals of the Judicial Investigating Organization, immigration
police and San José municipal police. Agents also went to VIP's Monaco, Nicole's, Bella Mansión and Alcázar. A bartender at VIP's also was the subject of a warrant, agents said. He, too, was detained. The allegation is carrying a weapon illegally. Agents said that a minor was found inside one of the night clubs apparently working as a prostitute. She was turned over to the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia, the child welfare agency. Police checked the identification of some 150 persons, they said. Some 95 percent were foreigners, and 50 of these were ordered to report to immigration, they said. |
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, March 22, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 56 | |||||||||
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| FBI
squeezing U.S. gangs for information on Juárez By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation are providing support to Mexican authorities investigating the March 13 murder of three people associated with the U.S. consulate in Juárez, just across the Rio Grande River border from the city of El Paso, Texas. The FBI is also interrogating gang members in El Paso who have ties to a drug trafficking cartel in Mexico. The focus of the investigation on the U.S. side of the border is a gang called Barrio Azteca, which is affiliated with the Azteca gang that operates in Juárez at the service of the Juárez cartel. The Juárez cartel is at war with the Sinaloa cartel over lucrative drug smuggling routes in the area. El Paso FBI office spokesperson Andrea Simmons says teams of federal, local and Texas state police are detaining and interrogating dozens of Barrio Azteca members in the El Paso area, hoping to gain some information about the murders. "We are simply doing an intelligence-gathering effort," she said. "We are not certain whether any of these people will have information or are directly tied to anything that happened in Juárez, we are simply trying to get as much information as we can." Simmons says authorities have arrested some members of Barrio Azteca who were being sought under indictments issued before the shootings in Juárez. She says there is an expectation that these suspects might know something useful since they are in close contact with their counterparts across the river. "The gang is considered a transnational gang," she said. "It is almost like they are two brothers. They are the same entity, but they operate differently on the two sides of the border." Close to 5,000 people have been killed in Juárez in the past two years and it is considered the most dangerous city in the world outside a war zone. Mexican President Felipe Calderón has deployed thousands of military and federal police personnel in the city, but the killings have continued and 96 percent of cases go unsolved. The situation may change, however, after the murder on a Saturday afternoon of two U.S. citizens, one of whom worked at the consulate, and the murder in a separate shooting around the same time of a Mexican man whose wife worked at the consulate. Although investigators say they have found no evidence so far indicating that the victims were targeted because of their consulate associations, some independent analysts think it is a likely possibility. In addition to the FBI, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Customs agents are also working the case on both sides of the border. Over 200 local police and federal agents have been conducting raids in El Paso and seeking out known members of Barrio Azteca for questioning. The gang has an estimated 3,000 members in the El Paso area, but investigators are concentrating on around 700 of them. Federal agents are also seeking information on the alleged leader of the gang in Juárez, Eduardo Ravelo, who was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list last year. Mrs. Clinton off to México to discuss border security By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A senior U.S. official says the United States has what he called a co-responsibility in ending the drug-related violence that has plagued Mexico's northern border. Arturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead a high-level U.S. delegation to Mexico for a day of talks with Mexican officials. The dialogue will also involve cooperation to strengthen law enforcement and joint efforts on the border to allow for a more fluid exchange of items and people, he said. Valenzuela told reporters the discussions will be held "with the utmost respect to Mexican sensibilities and Mexican sovereignty." Valenzuela stressed the partnership between the two countries, but also the fact that America and Mexico are "two distinct nations." The one day meeting Tuesday is expected to concentrate more on security issues rather than trade. |
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Cold
front bringing winds and possible showers By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A cold front has moved into the country and is bringing winds and isolated showers. Turrialba got the bulk of the moisture Sunday with the automatic weather station there recording 23.2 millimeters or about nine-tenths of an inch. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said that the winds today would be from moderate to strong. Skies will be cloudy in the northern zone and the Caribbean coast with the possibility of weak showers in these regions and in the Central Valley. The Pacific coast will remain dry, the institute said. San José got some rain Sunday, but the weather station at the institute in Barrio Aranjuez recorded just 1.3 millimeters, about five-hundreds of an inch. There was lightning in San Pedro. Monetary Fund official issues warning on debt By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A top official at the International Monetary Fund says wealthy countries will need to start cutting spending and deal with huge national debts next year. John Lipsky, the first deputy managing director of the fund, said in a speech in China Sunday that stimulus spending remains appropriate in 2010 to push the global economic recovery. But he says wealthy nations must cut spending, increase taxes and reform pensions and health entitlements to reduce debt in 2011. Lipsky says cutting stimulus measures put in place during the economic crisis will not be enough, because the stimulus programs account for only about 1 percent of rich countries' gross domestic products. He estimated that government debt will be higher than annual GDP in most advanced economies by 2014, the highest debt-to-GDP ratio since the years after World War II. Teens distributing drugs By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The movement for a reform of the juvenile crime laws is growing in the country as the ages of violators become less and less. In Liberia, the Policía de Control de Drogas detained this weekend a 16 year-old they said was selling his cocaine in a children's park. Also detained was a woman, 28, who was said to be the boy's handler. A week ago agents in Paraíso de Cartago detained another 16 year-old in a separate case. He was distributing marijuana in the central park of the community, police said. |
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