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He supports Arizona lawagainst illegal immigrants Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I was surprised to see the article about how President Obama considers the Arizona immigration law "misguided" It, in fact, is President Obama and the U.S. federal government that is seriously misguided. For years U.S. citizens have been preyed upon by criminals and drug dealers on the Mexican border with no help from the U.S. government. I applaud the governor of Arizona for taking the necessary steps to protect her citizens from the onslaught of crime and drugs that have penetrated the state. Another article further on in A.M. Costa Rica says it all, referring to the killing of Mexican federal police by drug gangs in Juárez across the U.S. border. One only needs to look at the people protesting there in Arizona to see that it has gone on way too long already. Costa Rica has road blocks frequently on major highways to check among other things, immigration status, and no one minds except the criminals and illegal people here. No one who is legal has anything to fear here or in the state of Arizona unless their intent is something other than legality. Fred Cole
Nuevo Arenal Citizen just can't contact the prestigious FBI Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I tried to contact the FBI by telephone today (Monday). I called five times. I got hung up on five times. I even reminded one "operator" that some folks had trouble reporting some guys that wanted to learn to fly aircraft but showed no interest in learning to land. One jerk (there is no milder word I can think of) that answered three of my calls between 11:50 and 1:15, kept asking what was the nature of my call. I told him that I wanted to talk to a low-ranking agent and share some ideas. I was told to call the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica. I told him the local "letters to the editor" was chock full of complaints from U.S. citizens that simply could not get through to anyone at the embassy. (another hang up). Call again. "This is an administrative office, we don't have any agents here." I stated that it was long distance and I was calling the number on the front page of the FBI Web site, and would they please connect me with an agent [here it shows my stupidity to think that the FBI might have a communications system]. Hang up. Call and get "Mr. Jerk" again. I ask "What is your name?" They don't give out names, for security reasons. "OK, employee number." "We don't have any" (hang up). There was a commission to see why citizen reports and even field office reports just didn't get passed up concerning the flight students. Lots of talk, lots of headlines, lots of federal dollars. Recommendation: BETTER COMMUNICATIONS. Nine years later, same old stuff. I really think I had an interesting idea (no, nothing as "interesting" as 9-11) but interesting, to me, a citizen, a guy that cares about his country. I tried, I started with the U.S. Attorney's Office for Southern New York where I was referred to the FBI where I got hung up on five times in a row without speaking to an agent. I think that if I had wanted to get a group of Cub Scouts a gee-whiz tour of headquarters I might have gotten further. But just let a civilian try to contact an agent with the esteemed FBI , hang up on them, quick. OK, I'm not a cop. That doesn't make me stupid. I think I am observant and went through the trouble to get a number for the U.S. attorney (by contacting the New York City Public Library. No other listings could I find on the Internet) and ended up bounced to FBI where the insults REALLY start to fly. I repeat I have nothing as wild as "wanna fly but not land," but I do have something that I feel could save a great deal of time and money investigating something strange on Wall Street. Of course we read about Gigabytes of pornography being downloaded by the Security and Exchange Commission, I can't, now, wonder why no FBI agents are available in Washington. They might be using all that inter-agency communications to share, ah, "intelligence". The SEC sure did, at highest levels, while Rome burned. Hello? FBI? Not available? The U.S. Attorney in New York, and the FBI (if anyone at the embassy reads this) can just wonder what I had. I got so mad I think I forgot. Just a dumb civilian anyway. Charles Merritt
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Bridge blockade There are no half measures when a railroad bridge needs to be painted. The span over Calle 17 became a parking spot for workmen Monday as they applied special paint to prolong the life of the bridge. The job is expected to take about 10 days more during which time the road which runs in front of Hospital Calderón Guardia will remain closed. The site is just north of Parque Nacional. |
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The rail passenger service that now goes to the Universidad de Latina in Montes de Oca will be extended next week east into Curridabat, said Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles. The expansion of the service was expected because officials hope to see a much greater expansion of service in the next year. Miguel Carabaguíaz will be continuing as president of the |
national rail service in the Laura
Chinchilla government that takes
office May 8. He started in the job in the Abel Pacheco government and
has served during the entire Óscar Arias Sánchez
administration. He engineered the renovation of the Heredia to San José route and expanded it to go to Universidad Latina. The agency has hopes to extend the service from the western reaches of the Central Valley to Cartago. The agency also is going to be seeking a concessionaire to electrify the line. Now the engines are diesel. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Banco Nacional has named a chief of its insurance division and said that it would use its customer contacts to become a serious player in the national insurance market, which is now open to competition. Named was Carlos Solís Hidalgo. The subsidiary is called BN Corredora de Seguros. Solís Hidalgo has experience in the insurance industry and worked with Citibank in Chicago, Banco Nacional said. The bank has had experience in insurance, mainly as it applies to policies linked to credit. It said its goal was to become No. 1 in the Costa Rican insurance market. That probably is not good news to the Instituto Nacional de Seguros, which maintained a monopoly until passage of a new insurance law that sought to encourage competition. |
Juan Carlos Corrales, general manger
of the bank, said that the insurance subsidiary would offer value-added
products. Solís Hidalgo said that the client base of Banco Nacional represents a potential large enough to insure the success of the new subsidiary. He promised an aggressive business strategy. The bank will develop different products to fashion a comprehensive package that includes pensions, investments, banking accounts and credit cards, he said. Solís Hidalgo noted that the consumer in Costa Rica is used to a limited offering of insurance that includes basically life, hospitalization and fire. He did not mention if the bank subsidiary would handle vehicle insurance. As more companies enter the market with their unique insurance products, Costa Ricans are facing the prospect of becoming for the first time comparison insurance shoppers. |
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| San José, Costa Rica, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 81 | |||||||||
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and the A.M. Costa Rica staff Colorado hurricane forecasters say that the chance of a major storm passing through the Caribbean this year is greater than average. The team predicted a 58 percent chance of a major hurricane tracking into the Caribbean compared to the long-term average of 42 percent. The team's latest statistics for Costa Rica are reassuring. There is but a 5 percent chance of a named storm tracking within 50 miles and a 2 percent probability of a hurricane tracking within 50 miles. There is less than a 1 percent chance that a major hurricane will pass within 50 miles of the country. The team said that there is a 13 percent chance that one or more named storms would pass within 100 miles of Costa Rica and a 6 percent chance that a hurricane would pass within 100 miles. Predictions for Nicaragua are more threatening. The country stands a 17 percent chance of a hurricane coming within 50 miles. Hurricanes never hit Costa Rica, but the backlash from a storm passing nearby can cause great damage. The Colorado State University forecast team predicts an above-average 2010 Atlantic basin hurricane season based on the premise that El Niño conditions will dissipate by mid-year and that warm tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures will persist. The team predicted 15 named storms to form in the Atlantic basin between June 1 and Nov. 30 with eight expected to be hurricanes and four developing into major hurricanes with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater. Long-term averages are 9.6 named storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 major hurricanes per year. “We expect current moderate El Niño conditions to transition to neutral conditions by this year’s hurricane season,” said Phil Klotzbach, lead forecaster on the university's Hurricane Forecast Team. “The dissipating El Niño, along with the expected anomalously warm Atlantic ocean sea surface temperatures, will lead to favorable dynamic and thermodynamic conditions for hurricane formation and intensification.” |
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marks 27 years of hurricane forecasting at Colorado
State, led by William Gray. The hurricane forecast team makes its
predictions based on 58 years of historical data. “Based on our latest forecast, the probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline is 69 percent compared with the last-century average of 52 percent,” Gray said. “While patterns may change before the start of hurricane season, we believe current conditions warrant concern for an above-average season.” Precursor factors to this year have a number of similarities to early April conditions that preceded the hurricane years of 1958, 1966, 1969, 1998 and 2005. All five of these seasons had above-average activity, especially the seasons of 1969, 1998 and 2005. Klotzbach and Gray predict the 2010 season will have slightly less activity than the average of these five earlier years. The team predicts tropical cyclone activity in 2010 will be 160 percent of the average season. By comparison, 2009 witnessed tropical cyclone activity that was about 70 percent of the average season. The team began using a new early April statistical model in 2008. “We have found that using two late-winter predictors and our early December hindcast, we can obtain early April predictions that show considerable hindcast skill over the period from 1950-2007,” said Klotzbach. “This new forecast model also provided a very accurate prediction over the past few seasons.” The team's Web site, available to the public at http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane, is the first publicly accessible Internet tool that adjusts landfall probabilities for regions and counties based on the current climate and its projected effects on the upcoming hurricane season. Probabilities are also available for all islands in the Caribbean and countries in Central America. Klotzbach and Gray update the site regularly with assistance from the GeoGraphics Laboratory at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, the university said. |
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The country's weather service was right on the money Monday in predicting Central Valley downpours. San José got its first taste of the coming rainy season when two waves of storms swept over the city, a light one in the early afternoon and a serious downpour in the early evening. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional says that pretty much the same is in store for the Central Valley today, based on an approaching low pressure area. Also likely to see rain is the Pacific coast. The northern zone and the Caribbean will see isolated showers, the forecast said. |
In San José
the skies dumped 45 millimeters between 5 and 7:30 p.m. That's about
1.8 inches. Parts of Guanacaste appear to have been pounded overnight. Daniel Oduber airport in Liberia logged 37.3 millimeters of rain before 7 a.m. Monday. That's about 1.5 inches. Manzanillo, Limón, got 20.2 millimeters (about eight tenths of an inch) overnight but nothing since 7 a.m., according to the automatic weather station there. Rainfall was minor in much of the country. The weather institute, however, continues to issue warnings. |
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Honduran
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Hundreds of thousands of newspaper readers throughout the Americas have been invited by the Inter American Press Association to sign a letter addressed to the president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, asking him to set up legal mechanisms enabling violence unleashed against journalists and the impunity surrounding such offenses to be confronted and ended. Since the beginning of last month to date six journalists have been murdered in various parts of the Central American country, setting off a wave of violence: José Hernández Ochoa (killed on March 1), David Meza (March 11), Nahúm Palacios (March 14), José Bayardo Mairena and Manuel Juárez (March 26), and Georgino Orellano (April 20), without any positive result in the police investigations being known. Luis Antonio Chavez, who appeared in a children's television show, died April 13 but it is not clear if he was targeted because of his occupation. The international community can sign a letter published by the Inter American Press Association in which the Honduran government is called on to put an end to the reigning climate of terror and to identify and apply the full weight of the law to the guilty. The letter says: Dear Mr. President, The international community is disturbed at the wave of violence unleashed against journalists in Honduras without there being to date any investigation to identify those responsible, punish them and thus prevent these offenses from going unpunished." “We take the liberty of calling your attention to these cases, urging you please to instruct your country’s relevant authorities not to cease their respective investigations and not to allow these murders to go unpunished,” the letter adds. Readers wishing to join the campaign by adding their signature to the letter may do so on the Web site www.impunidad.com. The letter and spaces for name and e-mail address can be found on the right of the page in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The Inter American Press Association is waging a hemisphere-wide campaign titled “Let’s Put an End to Impunity” so that more than 380 crimes committed against journalists – and the disappearances of a dozen others – in the last 22 years may not remain unpunished. The initiative is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. |
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