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The petroglyph
discovered at the Las Pailas work site.
Archaeologists
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By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
A team of archaeologists from the Costa Rican electricity institute recently moved a petroglyph that they found near the Las Pailas geothermal plant close to Liberia. The site, known as El Blanco, is an apparent cemetery with at least three known burial sites all located on the banks of the Río Blanco. Estimates from the team, in coordination with the Protección del Patrimonio Cultural del Museo Nacional, claim that the petroglyph dates from the Bagaces period between the fourth and ninth centuries C.E. A petroglyph is an image usually carved onto a rock surface as a form of rock art. This particular piece had a representation of a hummingbird on it, which the institute’s archaeologists said is a relevant figure in the native Costa Rican mythology for its association with fertility. The rock also had two parallel spirals in its design. Each spiral was going in the opposite direction, archaeologists said. This would represent the flow of water and is in relation to the four funeral sites near the Río Blanco, the institute said. The action by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is required by law. Accordingly, any major project or construction site must be managed with the Museo Nacional in order to preserve any of the stray findings of the national archaeological heritage. “The transfer of this heritage has a great significance in the protection of the indigenous legacy,” said Arturo Hernández, archaeologist of the Pailas II project, "It avoids the increasing looting of archaeological pieces by unscrupulous people dedicated to the illicit trade of cultural property." The petroglyph was placed at the main entrance to the Las Pailas I plant. The institute said that it was wiring off four areas believed to hold more undiscovered national treasures at Rincón de la Vieja, Colorado, Las Pailas and Las Tecas. Economy doesn't have enough jobs to fill By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
The Costa Rican economy does not generate enough jobs to absorb the new workforce entering the market, according to a recent report from Estado de la Nación, an independent social research organization. According to a press release sent by the organization, since the second semester of 2014, jobs in the service sector have diminished, which resulted in potentially 110,000 people facing unemployment in the next two years. The unemployment rate in the country is close to 9 percent. The study also say that new employment options are open only to a reduced group of people with the required education levels. The document also recommends that technical and higher education should be encouraged to improve the working opportunities and salary rates of the population, which would, in turn, increase the innovation rates of domestic companies.  Via PanAm
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Costa Rica staff
Two Belgian runners arrived in the greater metropolitan area of San José Tuesday afternoon about halfway through their more than 15,500 mile journey toward the very tip of Argentina. “Our project, Via PanAm, is an amazing story of hope persistence and a lot of stupidity,” said one of the crewmembers Liesbeth Balemans. The group comprises of the runners, Weking van Reeth and Seba Vandermolen, and a crew, comprised of Liesbeth Balemans and An Wouters, following their journey that originated at Prudhoe Bay on the northern coast of Alaska. They are running for the purpose of raising money and awareness for a Belgian organization known as To Walk Again, which supports people with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities rendering someone paraplegic. The group told A.M. Costa Rica that they are running more than 590 marathons for charity. According to the group’s website documenting their journey, they have run 279 of those 590. Next stop for the group is Panamá City, Panama based on the map tracking their movements.
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News Editor of A.M. Costa Rica An ever darker world is how the new index of media freedom by Reporters Without Borders characterizes the state of the free press for 2017. The international non-profit, non-governmental organization primarily focuses on internet censorship and to assist journalists assigned to cover dangerous areas. The group bemoans the state of the press in the era of repression as much as fake news. It has caused an intense public mistrust and authoritarian hijacking of the news media. There are silver linings to the report’s cloud, however, as the group marks Costa Rica in the sixth ranking of 180 countries examined. Reporters Without Borders said this: “Costa Rica has the best record of respecting human rights and free expression in Latin America, and is a remarkable exception in a region characterized by violent crime and corruption. The enlightened media legislation and the significant level of freedom enjoyed by journalists have nonetheless been marred by certain negative practices such as the spying on the Diario Extra newspaper by the Judicial Investigation Agency in 2014.” The glowing remarks from the group are based on a methodology that includes, among others, the number of journalists and media assistants killed as a result of their work. Costa Rica has none of these problems in a region of Latin America that was plagued by such based on this index findings. Capping out for the top three spots were Norway, Sweden and Finland in that order. The next Latin American country to come after Costa Rica was the South American nation of Uruguay in 25th. Canada made it to 22nd and the United States was put at 43. Meanwhile, the nation that made it to last place out of 180 countries was the reclusive North Korea and Cuba took last place among Latin America, according to the report. The report can be freely viewed online at the organization’s website. There is a caveat to all of this data, however. Reporters Without Borders admits within the confines of the methodology that the degree of the free press is based on a pooling of responses from so-called experts determined by the group. The saving grace behind this relative analysis is a combination with harder data as to amount of abuses and reported acts of violence against journalists during that period, the report states. This includes killing and imprisonment. The responses from these so-called experts are based upon a series of 87 questions translated into 20 languages. Those responses and the data are then compiled into a scale of countries between 0 to 100 with the latter being the lowest possible score, the report says. The target experts are media professionals, lawyers and sociologists. |
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Part of the problem with any number of these indexes or studies is assessing the quality as much as quantity of data that can be obtained or has been obtained. Particularly in cases of North Korea and Eritrea, itself only losing out for the bottom due to its highly-restricted and monitored opening of foreign journalists this year. The same problems remain: information gathering. Often, the conclusions from those extreme examples are obvious based on the general political landscape. It is countries that fall in the middle, such as the United States or the United Kingdom or Australia, where such categorization get trickier to make conclusions. It is no secret that misinformation or so-called fake news and false ledes plague the realm of news media. However, the sources of media are changing and the nature of how and where people obtain their news is equally in flux. There also needs to be an important distinction between what is news and what is news commentary. Cable TV networks often fall in the latter category. These channels provide information about events and comment on the news. This has a tendency to put a spin or perspective on it as well to support the conclusions of the upper echelons worried about ratings or to cater towards their audience. The rise of the Internet and social media has caused a consistent and pummeling hit of information upon the user. That information is not always good and now it calls for the user to take more responsibility in funneling out what is real and what is noise. |
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of the A.M. Costa Rica staff The rainy season is starting all over again but this year it might be a little weaker than prior years, according to Eladio Solano, a meteorologist from the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. Long gone are the days when the Central Valley's rain had not only a more powerful punch but it rained every single afternoon before 1 p.m. This year’s Fenómeno del Niño could impact the country to a higher degree and that could imply less water for the northern parts of the country. El Niño is the name given to describe the warming of the Pacific and equatorial shores of Latin America, a phenomenon that has caused higher temperatures in Costa Rica and lack of rain in the Guanacaste area. El Niño has irregular cycles that may last from three to eight years. “According to our forecast, the second semester of 2017, temperatures might be higher than other years because El Niño will be stronger,” Solano said. “This could possibly cause less rain and a hotter sensation for the rest of the country.” “The truth is that rain cycles have not changed that much in the last 15 years, despite changes people feel,” he said. “The weather variability is higher in some parts of the country than others, but national averages remain very similar. It takes many decades or extraordinary events for climate changes to be evident.” |
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The rainy season
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area this week and that will reach the Central Valley
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U.S.
President’s desire to cut
refugees costing U.S. jobs By the A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
The U.S. president's desire to cut refugees is also costing U.S. jobs. A reduction in refugee resettlement that began after an executive order by President Donald Trump in late January has led to at least 300 layoffs in the U.S. nonprofit sector and nearly 500 positions abroad. In some cases, the jobs slashed were held by resettled refugees. A review of news releases, media reports, and information obtained from a survey sent to the nine primary resettlement agencies shows that seven of those organizations contracted by the government to coordinate refugees' first months and years of living in the United States have had layoffs at their headquarters and local offices around the country, or at affiliate and partner organizations. Voice of America documented more than 300 part-time and full-time positions cut in the United States. Additional organizations reported cutting employees' hours and not filling vacancies to trim budgets. The tally is not exhaustive: Two of the nine primary resettlement organizations, Episcopal Migration Ministries and International Rescue Committee, did not respond to a request for information or make that figure otherwise public; the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, historically one of the most active resettlement agencies, declined to provide data or comment about layoffs. After the first executive order in January that would have stopped refugee arrivals for four months and cut the overall number for the fiscal year to 50,000, said Sister Donna Markham, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. Sister Markham said that the program's suspension would affect about 700 employees of Catholic Charities agencies nationwide, with layoffs expected for nearly all of the workers. "If we're talking about American jobs, this is laying off people in these public-private partnerships," she told the National Catholic Reporter in February. Overseas, Church World Service has laid off almost all 600 staff members at its Resettlement Support Center Africa, which coordinates with the State Department under a separate part of the refugee process from U.S.-based affiliates: 484 in Kenya, 27 in South Africa, and 19 in Tanzania. "The decision to reduce our staff was a direct result of these executive orders, which sabotage our ability to offer vital services, support and counsel to families seeking to rebuild their lives in safety," Church World Service President and CEO Rev. John L. McCullough said. The contracts between the government and the nonprofit organizations, some of which have resettled refugees for decades, are based per capita on how many refugees are resettled by the agencies. They receive about $900 for each refugee to cover the administrative costs of helping the newcomers in their first 90 days in the country, from picking them up at the airport, setting up their first home and enrolling children in school, to hosting English classes and advising on job searches. Another $1,125 goes directly to each refugee for initial costs of setting up their lives in the United States, such as rent and furniture. Fewer arrivals mean less funding, and that jeopardizes jobs, including some held by refugees themselves, who often are hired to interpret for members of their community or find other positions in the resettlement field. In some cases, the nonprofit organizations are planning to receive thousands fewer refugees than anticipated by the end of the fiscal year. The fiscal year started with a surge ordered by then-President Barack Obama: The United States would take 110,000 refugees, more than it had in decades. But those plans came to a screeching halt in late January, when one of Trump's initial executive orders trimmed that number to 50,000; a revised order in March upheld the president's call for that 55 percent reduction. Despite federal lawsuits and injunctions rolling back those orders, the president maintains broad power over the ultimate number of refugees that will be allowed into the country. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in significantly lower arrivals, leaning on what he says is a lack of confidence in the screening process for admitted refugees, although refugees are among the most rigorously vetted immigrants to the U.S. Many resettlement organizations signed amicus briefs in support of lawsuits that challenged the refugee-related executive order, stating in one case that faith-based refugee organizations' ability to maintain operations and services moving forward has been devastated. The nonprofits have tried to rally financial support from the public in recent months, but several indicated in phone and email interviews that donations would not make up for any reduction in funding from the government. The government's Office of Refugee Resettlement operated on a budget of $1.67 billion in fiscal year 2016. That includes more than services for refugee resettlement, however. The bureau handles other programs, such as anti-trafficking efforts, and unaccompanied children. The office asked for $2.18 billion for the next fiscal year. So far this fiscal year, the U.S. has resettled about 42,000 refugees, but there has been no final word from the executive branch about how many more will be allowed in. The administration could halt the process abruptly at 50,000. At the current rate of arrivals, 800 to 900 individuals a week, that cap would be reached around the end of June or early July. Trump promised to dramatically change not only the number of refugees admitted but the composition of where they come from and what religions they are, initially pledging to block Syrians and increase the number of Christians. However, the demographics remain nearly identical to those from before Trump took office. Human rights groups choose defender from El Salvador By the A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
Ten of the world’s leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have chosen three human rights defenders from Cambodia, El Salvador and Egypt as this year’s finalists for the prestigious Martin Ennals Award. The three finalists were selected from a field of some 50 human rights defenders. Director of the Martin Ennals Foundation, Michael Khambatta, says the city of Geneva, which will host the award ceremony on October 10, provides project funding of $12,000 for each of the finalists. Khambatta said each finalist is at serious risk from their respective governments and others who oppose the work they do to promote human rights. He says a group of five Human Rights Defenders from Cambodia called Free the 5-KH have been held in pre-trial detention for more than a year. Khambatta said a second finalist, Karla Avelar, a transgender woman in El Salvador, has been imprisoned, attacked and nearly killed on several occasions for defending and promoting the human rights of LGBTI people. He says the third finalist, Mohamed Zaree, a legal scholar from Egypt, has been subject to death threats for his work as director for the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. He says Zaree, despite the risks, continues to battle human rights violations, which have become worse following the Egyptian revolution in 2011. Trump signs order to review status of national parks By the A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to review the protected status of national monuments created on the land and in the ocean over the past 20 years. Trump says the move returns federal lands to the people, while critics say it could open two dozen protected natural areas to potential development. “Today I'm signing a new executive order to end another egregious abuse of federal power and to give that power back to the states and to the people, where it belongs,” Trump said as he signed the executive order at the Department of the Interior in Washington. The sites are mostly in the Western United States, and include venues given protected status by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Each invoked the Antiquities Act of 1906, which was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt. Major sites under review include the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Bear Ears National Monument in Utah.The 500,000 hectare Bears Ears site is home to Native Americans, who oppose the review. Carleton Bowekaty, a Zuni tribal official and co-chair the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, said in a statement that five Native American nations oppose any change to the status of this sacred cultural landscape that carries deep meaning for our people.” “Let's be clear,” said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. “This executive order does not remove any monuments. And this executive order does not weaken any environmental protections on any public lands.” Some Republicans and land-use activists have chafed at the restrictions on large swaths of federal land that have been shielded from development, including extraction of resources such as minerals, natural gas and oil. Trump said recent designations under the century-old law have deprived the public of economic benefits, and were done without full review. “This isn't an issue of economic impacts or lack of public process,” Peter Shelley, senior counsel with the Conservation Law Foundation, said. “This really is part of an agenda to roll back protections on some of our most precious resources for economic development purposes.” Potential changes sought through the review would likely be controversial and probably would be decided by the courts. Opinion surveys show national parks and monuments are highly popular with the American public. As he signed the order Wednesday, Trump said some of his actions may not be popular, but he believes he is doing the right thing. U.S. universities struggle with free speech on campus By the A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
American universities have long allowed controversial public figures to speak publicly as part of a philosophy that encourages open debate as a means of education. But a series of recent protests appears to indicate shifting attitudes about free speech among today's students. Since February, protests on college campuses like the University of California-Berkeley, Middlebury College, the Claremont colleges and California State University, Los Angeles, have erupted ahead of speeches scheduled by conservative political pundits. The protests, several of which turned violent, have drawn intense media coverage and condemnation from those who believe the demonstrations are aimed at shutting down controversial speakers. Will Creely, senior vice president of legal and public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said the incidents have become a growing concern for free speech advocates because he thinks schools could do more to protect invited speakers. Last month, a student group at Vermont's Middlebury College invited Charles Murray, a political scientist and fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, to speak on campus. Murray's controversial research has linked race and intelligence, leading groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center to label him a white nationalist. Murray was greeted by hundreds of protesters who shouted over him when he tried to speak. As the crowd refused to let up, college administrators escorted Murray to another building where his talk with Middlebury professor Allison Stanger was broadcast online. As Ms. Stanger and Murray left the building, they were physically and violently confronted by a group of protesters, college spokesman Bill Burger said in a statement. Ms. Stanger was treated at a hospital emergency room and left wearing a neck brace following the confrontation with protesters, one of whom grabbed her by the hair and yanked her backward. Earlier this month, students at Claremont McKenna College in California targeted Heather MacDonald, a Manhattan Institute scholar and prominent critic of the Black Lives Matter movement. Students at Claremont took issue with a book Ms. MacDonald published last year called “The War on Cops,” which puts forth the idea that police officers are afraid to perform their jobs because of increased media scrutiny following the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Ms. MacDonald, who was also invited to speak on campus by a student group, saw protesters block the doors to the building where she was scheduled to speak. She was forced to deliver the speech via live-stream to a largely empty room, as the protesters refused to allow anyone to pass. Police officers then had to sneak Ms. MacDonald out the building's back door so she could safely escape the protesters. Following her speech, more than two dozen students signed an open letter to one of the school's presidents, David Oxtoby, assailing Ms. MacDonald as a fascist and demanding Claremont take action against an independent student newspaper for its coverage of the protests and its continual perpetuation of hate speech. Oxtoby had previously condemned the protests and defended Ms. MacDonald's right to speak on campus, citing the college's commitment to the exercise of free speech and academic freedom. The students argued that Ms. MacDonald is a well-known figure, with her views well-documented, so refusing her a platform to speak didn't violate her rights. Further, the students said, they consider MacDonald's mere presence on campus a form of violence. Incidents like the ones at Middlebury and Claremont have become increasingly common on American college campuses, according to Creely. He blamed university administrators for capitulating to student critics who he said show a lack of knowledge about laws protecting free speech in the United States. In a 2015 YouGov survey, 43 percent of students said making sure that students have an environment free from discrimination, even if that means placing some limits on what students can say should be more of a priority for colleges than protecting the absolute right to free speech. A similar 2016 survey conducted by Gallup shows that, by a 52 percent to 42 percent margin, students believe their institution should forbid people from speaking on campus who have a history of engaging in hate speech. But there is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment.
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Thousands more students studying within 230 schools now have access to broadband Internet with the installation of some fiber optic lines from the Costa Rican electricity institute. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad reached this agreement with the Ministerio de Educación Pública to assist in getting online access for students and staff and to improve the technological development of the schools, the institute said. For 2017, the institute said in a statement that it wants to include 400 more schools in that category with the next year reaching 1,000 schools having fiber optic cables. The institute estimated that the total investment so far in this project has reached 560 million colons and includes often difficult areas to access like in the region of Talamanca. According to Sonia Marta Mora, Minister of Public Education, the fiber optic connection project is being carried out to create a technological platform that will allow the educational community to use the latest generation tools. "This effort is intrinsically linked to changes in curricula; All in search of finding a more inclusive society,” Sonia Marta Mora, the head of the public education ministry said. Five women wounded after a shootout By the A.M. Costa
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Five women, two of whom are minors, were wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting near a home in Bajos de los Ledezuma Tuesday night. According to a preliminary report from the Judicial Investigating Organization, the crime occurred around 8:30 at night when the group of five were outside a home and two persons on a motorcycle came up and shot at them. Investigators said that one of the women received bullets in her neck and face, while another got wounds in the right leg and arm. A 13-year old girl was also shot three times in the legs and the other two, one of whom is a 9-year-old, just had minor bruises, officials said. No deaths have been reported as a result of this attack so far. Four of the victims were transferred to Hospital México while the youngest victim was taken to Hospital Nacional de los Niños. The case has prompted the intervention of the judiciary’s Sección de Investigaciones de Turno Extraordinario. Police catch thief in Parque La Sabana By the A.M. Costa
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Police captured a person suspected of varying acts of petty theft in Parque La Sabana this morning. The suspect, a Nicaraguan national, has allegedly been arrested before for theft and particularly stealing from people using the facilities and park areas within La Saban, according to a report. Fuerza Pública also confirmed that the suspect is an illegal immigrant and turned him over to immigration where he presumably will be deported back to his country. |
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| From page 7: Trump agrees to hold off on trashing NAFTA By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services After reports that President Donald Trump was considering an executive order to withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, the White House said Wednesday that Trump agreed not to take such action after phone calls with the leaders of Canada and México. Since launching his bid for president, Trump has repeatedly criticized the nation’s trade deals, especially NAFTA, saying the agreement signed in 1994 has been a disaster and allowed many U.S. jobs to shift to Mexico. “President Trump agreed to not terminate NAFTA at this time, and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures, to enable renegotiation of the NAFTA deal to the benefit of all three countries,” the White House said. The statement further said Trump is honored to work with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and that he believes the renegotiation process will make the three countries stronger. A Mexican government statement confirmed the phone call between Trump and Peña Nieto, saying the leaders agreed on the convenience of maintaining NAFTA and working with Canada to bring about successful negotiations for the benefit of the three nations. Earlier Wednesday, a Canadian foreign ministry spokesman said Canada is ready to come to the table at any time. Trump targeted Canada this week for what he said was unfair trade practices, and ordered a new 20 percent tariff on Canadian lumber exports. Many Mexican officials have called NAFTA a disappointment, saying it has brought slow economic growth despite increased investment in factories and industry. |
