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Traffic policeman,
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held in ticket-fixing case By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Judicial Investigating Organization Friday detained a traffic policeman and an employee of the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transporte with the allegation that the pair worked together to clean driving records in exchange for payments, The traffic policeman was identified by the last names of Vargas Ulate. He is 47, agents said. The office employee, a 44-year-old woman, was identified by the last names of Vargas Rodríguez. Investigators said that the woman has access to the ministry's computer data bases. Agents said that they suspect that the arrangement had been going on for a couple of years. The Poder Judicial said the investigation has been going on since 2007. Agents said they believe the pair would offer services to drivers who had run up fines and also for persons who wanted to take driving tests without a long wait. Security plan proposed for Goicoechea buses By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Security officials will announce today a plan to tighten up police presence at bus stops and on buses in Goicoechea. The plan is to put police officers on every bus of the Autobuses Guadalupe Ltda. Police officers also will distribute pamphlets explaining the campaign. Robberies of persons waiting at bus stops and holdups of buses have reached epidemic proportions. Multi-agency effort asked against youth violence By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Defensoría de Los Habitantes is asking for a multi-institutional intervention to halt violence against children. The concerns are wide-ranging from violence in the home and youngsters killing other youngsters, violence in the schools, violence in the soccer stadiums, and even verbal aggression, according to an announcement. The Defensoría wants to bring 11 government institutions together to address the problem. However, there was no clear strategy outlined. Film festival features some controversial works Special to A.M. Costa Rica
A peace film festival will be held at the Sala Garbo theater April 22, 23 and 24, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Costa Rican Section. A reception will follow the films each night for audience questions and comments, the group said, adding that Peace Jam will add music. April 22 the film "The Eleventh Hour" about problems confronting the planet. Films April 23 include "In Full View" about the U.S. Army's former School of the Americas whose graduates have been involved in human rights violations. Comments by Rita Calvert of School of Americas Watch will precede the film, the group said. "Uranium 238," is an award-winning Costa Rican film on depleted uranium weapons and the international campaign to abolish them. The film's narrator, Isabelle Macdonald, and Damacio Lopez of the international campaign will comment. Films April 24 are "Women Crossing Borders" about problems facing Nicaraguan and Panamanian women who come to Costa Rica for the coffee harvest. Ana Lucia Faerron from the television show "Palabra de Mujer" will provide comments. The final film is "A Force Most Powerful" on non-violent movements that achieved an end to oppression. Films are in English with Spanish subtitles or Spanish with English subtitles. All films start at 7 p.m.. Tickets are 2,000 colones each. The theater is on Avenida 2 at Calle 28.
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Youngster wearing a scary mascara accompanied dancers who
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Horses had their day
Sunday in San José By the A.M. Costa Rica staff Sunday was celebrated as the Día Internacional de Caballo in San José, and a group of especially selected riders and their horses provided a smaller version of the traditional Dec. 26 tope. The parade down Paseo Colón was under partly cloudy skies, wind and a sprinkling of rain. About 300 horsemen and horse women participated. Unlike the first edition last year, there were not displays of various breeds, although the animals participating were mostly from champion stock. They came from six associations that promote various breeds. There also were no trick riders, but there were two groups of traditional dancers, bands and mascaras or masks ranging from the scary to funny. The event was a benefit for the municipality's social programs. The parade was a way to continue Costa Rica's long tradition of horse and rider, the municipality said. |
 National flag carried by a rider from Caballeriza Lele Monge in Desamparados shows that the day was a windy one. |
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The country's gentle philosophy on crime received a jolt Friday when anti-drug police arrested a mother and her 14-year-old son on allegations of selling drugs. The 45-year-old woman, identified by the last names of Chamorro Molina, was one of those inmates pardoned by the Consejo de Gobierno a year ago. There was a big ceremony. |
The arrests came in the Primero de
Mayo sector of Aserrí. The Policía de Control de Drogas
said they confiscated 220 doses of crack cocaine, a revolver and money. The woman had been arrested twice before, in 2007 and 2008, police said. The second arrest resulted in a sentence in El Buen Pastor, the women's prison in Desamparados. She was serving that sentence when she was pardoned. Typically there are pardons handed out at major holidays and at Mother's Day in August. |
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Railroad officials have entered into an agreement with two public Spanish companies seeking technical advice on integrating rail with other systems of transport in the Central Valley. The agreement by the Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocariles is with RENFE-Operadora and Ferrocarriles Españoles de Via Estrecha. Via estrecha means narrow gauge, and that is the type of rail system that Costa Rica maintains. The country is developing a national transportation plan |
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knowledge, said officials. Ferrocariles Españoles sold Costa Rica the new cars that now are in service. The Costa Rican rail institute is facing increased demand on its new Heredia-San José line and the new segment that goes from the Estación al Atlántico to Universidad Latina in San Pedro. Local officials have had to add one more car to each trip, they said. Left unsaid in the agreement with the Spanish firms is the timetable for providing rail service to Cartago, which is a priority. There also is a proposal to extend passenger service to the west. |
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A Pacific coast fishing operation is being investigated for having 36 Asian employees that were forced to live in poor conditions and may not have been paid, according to agents. Investigators are trying to find out if the company did make payments to the overseas families of the men as operators had promised. Investigators are calling the situation one of slavery, but that may be an overstatement. The Judicial Investigating Organization raided the company's headquarters and arrested four persons, including the owners. |
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operators include one Costa Rican and three Asians, said investigators. The case is unusual because the workers seem to have come into the country through Juan Santamaría airport. They include Vietnamese, Indonesians, Filipinos, two men from Taiwan and a Chinese national. News of the case has gone around the world. Meanwhile, Costa Rican labor officials are staying away from the Chinese company that is constructing the new national stadium, Workers there appear to be on the job long hours, during holidays and weekends. The working and living conditions have not been investigated. |
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| World Health panel plans review of flu response By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The World Health Organization is starting a review process today to examine the world's response to the H1N1 Flu pandemic. A committee composed of 29 independent experts from around the world will be meeting through Wednesday to take stock of what has been done and what needs to be done in future pandemics. It has been one year since the H1N1 influenza virus was first detected. Since then, many questions have been raised regarding the world's handling of the pandemic. Keiji Fukuda, World Health's special adviser on pandemic influenza, says the expert committee will examine the adequacy of that response. "The bottom line for the process is to identify lessons learned, to identify what the world needs to do including countries and organizations like WHO to be better prepared and also to respond to future pandemics and to future large-scale global public health events," said Fukuda. The World Health Organization has been criticized for allegedly exaggerating the dangers of the H1N1 virus under pressure from drug companies. Some governments have suggested drug companies influenced public health officials to spend money unnecessarily on stockpiles of H1N1 vaccines. Fukuda rebutes these charges. He says he expects countries to air these and other concerns during the review committee meeting. He says he considers the review process to be timely for this and other reasons. "One of them is that we do not know when the pandemic itself is going to be over," added Fukuda. "However, we are now about a year into the pandemic and I think there is a lot of experience, which has been accumulated. And, in addition, we want to conduct — at least begin the review process at a time when the memories are fresh — when the experience is fresh, the memories are fresh. So, for those reasons, this seems to be a relatively good time to start it." The World Health Organization says more than 213 countries have reported more than 17,700 laboratory confirmed deaths of pandemic influenza H1N1. It says the virus is circulating most actively in parts of Southeast Asia, West Africa, and in the tropical zone of the Americas. The review process is expected to continue for many months. This first review meeting will set the agenda for what follows.
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River cleaners Carlos Abarca, Esteban Benavides, Carlos
Enrique Serrano and Juan Serrano.San Miguel group asked
public to respect rivers By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Comité Bandera Azul Ecológica de San Miguel really would like people to stop using the rivers as dumps. That was the summary that the committee gave at the end of a cleanup from La Vivienda to Castilla on the Río Tibás over the weekend. The committee said that 12 sacks of plastic were collected from the river. This material will be sorted and recycled, the committee said. This is a continuation of the work of cleaning the river, which has received efforts from a number of local groups along the water course. The San Miguel committee said that those who own property along the rivers should make sure that trash does not fall into the river as a result of wind or rain. The committee also urged the use of degradable plastic. Despite four years of the Arias administration's Paz con Naturaleza, the committee said that local companies that produce such materials were not being encouraged properly. Prosecutors plan appeal of freedom given suspect By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A man attacked an individual he believed to be a thief Thursday in Parrita, stabbed the man in the chest and then kicked him while he lay dying, said the Poder Judicial. Prosecutors were surprised when the local Juzgado Penal ordered that the suspect get a job, live in San José and sign in every 15 days with the prosecutor in Pavas. The Fiscalía de Aguirre y Parrita asked that the man be jailed for investigation. Prosecutors said they would appeal the decision that was issued Friday. The suspect, identified by the last names of Espinoza Bolívar is accused of killing a man with the last name of Araya. The Poder Judicial said the death happened in Pueblo Nuevo de Parrita Thursday afternoon when the two men got into a discussion. Araya was detained the day before on the allegation that he broke into a home of an Espinoza family member, the Poder Judicial said. After the killing Espinoza fled but was detained by the Fuerza Pública, the Poder Judicial said. |
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