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The wall is
great rhetoric, but . . .
By the A.M. Costa
Rica staff
As Robert Frost said: Something there is that doesn't love a wall. That is true with U.S. politics and Donald Trump’s plan for a high wall at the border with México. Those who oppose the plan cite human rights reasons, economics or the desire to reunite families. But many have never been to the border. An analysis
on the news
In fact, Trump is going to need much more than a wall. Everyone knows that the narcos dig elaborate tunnels to bring their merchandise into the United States. There are smugglers who work by sea, and there is no wall so high that it cannot be climbed. There are stowaways who enter the United States on trucks and trains. Along the Mexican side of the border are shanty towns full of those who would just seek a way into the United States. A few hours at the border can be a lesson in the creativity of migrants. In addition, some U.S. border towns, such as Laredo, Texas, rely on shoppers from México to keep the bottom line blue. Costa Rica has its problems with the southern border now after already guiding about 9,000 Cubans to a better life in the United States. A wall would be helpful but not impenetrable. Trump, clearly the Republican presidential nominee, is correct in seeking to secure the border from illegal immigration. From a human rights standpoint, the illegals dying of dehydration in the Sonora Desert would be a good argument for more restrictions. The wall seems to be a good campaign talking point, but unless the United States adopts the policies of the East German police with attack dogs, machine guns and land mines, Trump is going to have to find a more practical policy.
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A traffic officer tries to clear away some of the dirt that a water company crew left scattered at a key intersection when leaving work Wednesday. Motorists report that driving in the capital is a hair-pulling affair because the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados made no provisions for detouring traffic away from the job site. The site is blocking a key city street that carries thousands of vehicles a day. |
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Special to A.M. Costa Rica Policía de Tránsito officers were forced to go beyond the usual duties Wednesday. They rolled their sleeves and used shovels in order to allow more cars to pass through the site of sewer works taking place in San José. According to one of the officers, a crew of the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados stopped work around 2 p.m and left the place messed up, so police had no choice but to remove dirt and debris to clear a path to the already congested traffic. “When I arrived here, the AyA workers had already left, and now we are trying to control the chaos.” an officer said. |
Works in
the sewer started Tuesday in order to replace an older
and weakened brick retaining wall and to build one made of
concrete. This work will take place until Friday. The
intersection at Avenida 9 and Calle 3 will continue to
be closed, according to a press release by AyA. The
water company also promised incorrectly that work would
continue 24 hours a day. “Our officers are trying to help as much as possible to ease the traffic. We've deployed eight in the area. People are already avoiding this route, something we have been encouraging.” said Felipe Venegas, subdirector of police operations. Despite the construction, a single lane of cars has been able to navigate the site. This is one of the major east-west roads in the city. Venegas also said that a few minor collisions happened and asked drivers to keep their cool and not become irate. |
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The 120 members of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and the Coro Sinfónico Nacional take on the challenge this weekend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Great Mass in C minor.” There are four soloists, too. The chorus has been practicing the complex Mozart piece for more than two months. This is the last nearly completed work for of the 18th century musical genius. He presented it in 1783 with his wife as one of the soloists. Soloists Friday night and Sunday morning at the Teatro Nacional are Costa Rican soprano María Marta López, tenor |
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soloist Christina Pier of the United States. Carl St. Clair will direct starting at 8 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. The performance is one of sacred music. The other work on the program is “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” by Osvaldo Golijov of Argentina. New Yorker David Krakauer will be the clarinet soloist for this piece, first presented in 1994. Isaac the Blind was a Medieval rabbi and kabbalist who asserted that Hebrew letters contained the code of the universe. The music comes from the klezmer tradition and is Krakauer’s signature work. |
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By the PLoS ONE news staff
Three species of shark, tiger, lemon and Caribbean reef, all use deeper coral reefs in the Virgin Islands, but only lemon sharks prey on seasonal grouper spawning aggregations, according to a study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. Authors were Alexandria Pickard from Nova Southeastern University, Florida, Bradley Wetherbee of the University of Rhode Island and colleagues. Groupers and other fish often spawn together in coral reefs at depths between 30 and 150 meters in the Caribbean, and these aggregations may make them easy pickings for predators. However, little is known about coral ecosystems at these depths when compared to shallow coral reefs. To find out patterns of reef use for three species of shark, the authors of this study analyzed data from acoustic transmitters placed on 18 sharks, 6 lemon sharks, 10 tiger sharks, and two Caribbean reef sharks. The sharks were tracked with acoustic receivers covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers near the island of St. Thomas. The authors found that all three species were present year-round in deeper coral reefs, but shark use patterns differed. While only two Caribbean reef sharks were tracked, both had a small range typical of the species that was not associated with the presence of spawning groupers. The range |
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This is a a grouper spawning aggregation.of lemon and tiger sharks was about 100 times greater, but only the lemon sharks showed increased activity in spots where groupers were actively spawning. The study included only a small number of sharks monitored over varying lengths of time, but Wetherbee, the co-author, notes, "Our study demonstrates that every member of a community has its own unique role or niche. Even though three species of sharks might be found in the same place at the same time on a reef, they are all doing different things and interact with other species in different ways." |
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Mrs. Clinton on her emails By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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A U.S. federal judge says he may order Hillary Clinton to testify in a lawsuit concerning her use of a private email server for official business while she was secretary of State. A conservative group called Judicial Watch is suing the State Department for access to some of the e-mails Mrs. Clinton sent while secretary of State. It contends the State Department did not release all the details it was seeking under the Freedom of Information Act on former department employees who worked with Mrs. Clinton to set up her email account. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said Wednesday it may be necessary to summon Mrs. Clinton to testify about the circumstances that led the State Department approval for her using a private email server for official business. Mrs. Clinton has consistently denied any wrongdoing and says she used one email account for personal and official use for convenience. Mrs. Clinton’s critics, including Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, have accused her of putting national security at risk. Republican insiders reacting to Trump’s nomination win By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The long battle for the Republican presidential nomination has now ended, settling on a new leader of the Republican Party: Donald Trump. Republicans nationwide reacted with a mix of disbelief, anger and grudging acceptance Wednesday, revealing a party that may have a new leader but whose future will be unclear until after the general election this November. The first signs the party would not immediately unite behind Trump as the nominee emerged Tuesday night when Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas dropped out of the race following a resounding loss to Trump in the Indiana primary. A number of conservative bloggers and party operatives, including former John McCain aide Mark Salter, many of whom had been a part of the unsuccessful Never Trump movement, took to social media to openly declare they would not support Trump, and some even took the unprecedented step of pledging to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton using the hashtag #ImWithHer. “The idea of mainstream or even fairly conservative Republicans coming out to support a Clinton for the presidency is kind of mind-blowing,” said John Hudak, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. Mrs. Clinton, a divisive political figure and a lightning rod for conservative criticism over the past two decades, is a highly unlikely figure to attract any kind of Republican support. “It really puts into perspective how desperate and how angry and how disgusted many elements of the Republican Party are with Trump,” Hudak said. With the concession of Cruz and reports Wednesday that Ohio Gov. John Kasich has suspended his campaign, Trump will become the first party leader in more than six decades not to have held political office. “We want to bring unity to the Republican Party,” Trump said in his victory speech Tuesday. “We have to bring unity. It's so much easier if we have it.” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus followed by tweeting a message of support intended to solidify a party splintered by the Trump win. The choice between Trump and Clinton could drive away many long-time conservative voters as well as independents, said Hudak. “What happens when Republicans in those states start voting Democrat? It tells you that maybe Clinton won’t win those states but Republicans are going to have to spend a lot of money in those states and that’s a fast way to win election,” he said. Now the choice for establishment Republicans and party elders may come down to a matter of tone and political finesse. Hudak said many will hold their nose and vote for Trump to sustain party unity while refraining from the kind of outright campaigning that would show support for Trump’s ideas and his vision for the presidency. That decision could be a final effort to salvage the party. “It’s an attempt to bring the party to some level of unity so that people will turn out and vote,” said Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “The last line of defense for Republicans is the House and Senate; they want as few divisions that demoralize people as they possibly can get.” Out of the 34 Senate seats up for re-election this November, anywhere from seven to 10 are Republican seats in jeopardy. Ornstein said the decision to support Trump may ultimately come down to saving those seats. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have dealt with the reality of Trump in their own ways. McConnell has pushed small bills through the Senate while Ryan hopes to push a bold agenda focused on national security, the economy, poverty and health care through the House. That cannot happen within a fractured Republican party. “The more you distance yourself from your party’s nominee, the more you get a backlash from those populists who have been ardently for Trump saying see, the establishment is defying and betraying us again,” Ornstein said. “The more you embrace Trump, the more you turn traditional conservatives and Independents away from you.” Cruz positioned himself as the potential leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party during his concession speech Tuesday night. Many analysts saw parallels between his speech and Ronald Reagan’s concession to Gerald Ford in 1976. Reagan ultimately came back in 1980 to win the Republican nomination and the presidency, ushering in a new era of conservatism in American politics. At age 45, Cruz is young enough to look toward a presidential run in 2020 but the party may be moving beyond his vision. “The reality is Ronald Reagan was successful in 1976 because he was the future of the Republican Party. Ted Cruz is not the future of this party,” said Hudak. In 2012, Republicans famously performed an autopsy after the loss of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, calling for the party to adapt its perspective and improve outreach to women and minorities. Instead, the party moved in a completely different direction that ultimately ended with Trump as the nominee. After the general election, a new reckoning will occur. If Trump wins, his anti-establishment, anti-immigration wing of the party will clearly hold sway. If he loses, the conservative wing of the party represented by Cruz and the older establishment wing will be left to sort out what remains of a party led by a completely unexpected nominee. “You’re going to see an enormous battle not just for the control of the party apparatus,” said Ornstein, “but for the soul of the Republican Party and it’s not going to be resolved quickly or easily.” Spanish warrants link Russia to organized crime chiefs By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Spanish authorities this week issued arrest warrants for several Russians, some of them reputedly close associates of President Vladimir Putin, who are suspected of close ties to organized crime. The Spanish newspaper El Mundo quoted Judge Jose de la Mata of Spain's national court as saying there is very strong evidence against each suspect. Spanish prosecutors claim that the suspects were involved in a wide range of criminal activities, including murder, illegal arms trafficking, extortion, fraud, abuse of office, bribery, smuggling and drug trafficking. One of the biggest names on the list of suspects is Vladislav Reznik, a top official of the ruling Yedinaya Rossiya party who previously headed the committee on credit institutions and financial institutions of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. According to Spanish court documents, Reznik is associated with Russian crime boss Gennady Petrov and fulfills various tasks on Petrov’s behalf, both legal and illegal. Petrov was among a group of alleged Russian organized-crime figures who set up shop in Spain in the mid-1990s. He fled to Russia after police raided his villa on the Spanish island of Majorca in 2008. Another prominent name on the list of suspects is Nikolai Aulov, deputy head of Russia’s federal narcotics control service. According to the Spanish prosecutors, the mafia used him to gain influence in Russia’s highest administrative circles. A warrant was also issued for Leonid Khristoforov, who allegedly acted as a liaison for Aulov. Another Spanish arrest warrant was for Igor Sobolevsky, former deputy head of the Investigative Committee, a Russian state agency analogous to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Spanish prosecutors say Sobolevsky maintained contacts and exchanged services with Petrov, passing secret information to him. In the words of Judge de la Mata, Sobolevsky kept Petrov informed about the actions of the security services against organized crime. In a petition made to Spain’s central court in May 2015, Spanish prosecutors accused other former top Russian officials of having links to Petrov, including former defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov, former regional development minister Dmitry Kozak and former communications minister Leonid Reiman. Asked to comment on the Spanish arrest warrants, Valery Khomyakov, general director of the National Strategy Council, a Moscow think tank, said he was surprised by the universal silence with which Russian officialdom greeted the news. "We usually have someone to respond at every given opportunity,” he said. “As soon as something is said, Ms. Zakharova is already there. Everybody is probably waiting for the reaction of the chief executive. After all, Reznik is a rather well-known MP who has been in the parliament for a long time. Plus, his connections to Vladimir Putin through the notorious Petrov are discernible,” Khomyakov said, referring to the foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. In March, after Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for Reznik at the request of Spanish authorities, Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika flatly ruled out extraditing him to Spain. Alexander Gurov is a retired interior ministry general who made his name fighting organized crime in the 1980s and a former State Duma member who headed its security committee from 2000 to 2004. He said there is nothing surprising about official Moscow's silence about the Spanish arrest warrants. "It is clear that this episode is very unpleasant for the image of the country," he said. Still, Gurov said the story is hardly new. "I, personally, would listen to the Spanish police,” he said. “They are not fools. According to available information, Russian envoys of organized crime really were actively operating in Spain. The only question is the degree of guilt of those involved.” According to Gurov, the Spanish case is evidence of ties between Russia’s state structures and the criminal underworld. “It may even involve groups of officials from certain agencies,” he said. “It’s not a secret: this process has been going on since the '90s.. . . Organized crime cannot exist without the protection of the authorities, or without an economic base.” Twenty years ago, Gurov said, Russian organized crime groups decided to earmark one-third of their revenues for bribes to government officials. “I think this is now paying off,” he said. “They have all coalesced to such a degree that it is difficult for the uninitiated to understand. During all these years, the mafia worked hard to integrate state representatives into their networks.” At one time, organized crime put a large number of people into the State Duma, Gurov said. “That’s how it was when I ran for office,” he said. “They caught them by the hundreds, but those guys still managed to infiltrate the Duma.” However, Gurov believes that today the situation in the Duma has changed significantly. Valery Khomyakov says that if the accusations of the Spanish prosecutors are confirmed, the merger of Russian state structures with the criminal underworld will have to be recognized as a fact. The Spanish case will be presented as irrefutable evidence that Russia’s state structures and organized crime have merged "together in a criminal tangle, in which it is impossible to figure out where the government ends and where criminality begins,” he said. U.S. Justice Department enters dispute over bathroom bill By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The U.S. Justice Department says a controversial law in the state of North Carolina limiting legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people violates federal civil-rights law and must not be enforced. In a written notice to the state's governor, Pat McCrory, U.S. officials directed North Carolina to confirm that the new law will not be enforced or risk being sued by the federal government. If North Carolina disregards the U.S. government's position, it could put at risk hundreds of millions of dollars the state normally receives to support its schools and universities. The North Carolina law limits legal protections for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and requires transgender people to use only public bathroom facilities that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates. Transgender is used to describe people who identify with or express a gender identity different from one they were born with, for example, someone born male who chooses to live as a woman. The Justice Department said North Carolina's law, known there as House Bill 2 or H.B. 2, violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act, the foundation of all civil-rights legislation in the United States. The act, which dates back to 1964, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It has been used to end racial segregation in schools, workplaces and public facilities, also known as "public accommodations, and to overturn local election rules used to discriminate against minorities. The government's notice to the state and Gov. McCrory set a deadline of Monday for North Carolina to abide by the terms of the federal order. Since its passage in March, North Carolina's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender law has stirred strong controversy and aroused demonstrations both for and against its provisions. Rock-music star Bruce Springsteen and other figures from the entertainment world cancelled appearances in North Carolina in protest against H.B. 2. More than 140 businesses have signed a letter protesting the measure, among them Apple, Microsoft and Coca-cola. A Democratic state lawmaker who opposes the law, Chris Sgro, said the federal government's action "confirms what we've already known, that H.B. 2 is deeply discriminatory . . . and needs to be repealed as soon as possible." Sgro, who also is executive director of Equality NC, a rights group, estimated the economic impact of the law at $500 million already, not including the potential loss of federal funds for state institutions, such as $861 million allocated for North Carolina during the current school year. Medical errors are considered third leading cause of death By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Medical errors now are the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new study. Writing in The BMJ, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University say more than 250,000 deaths are caused by medical errors every year. This means medical errors have passed respiratory disease as the third most likely cause of death. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps the official statistics about leading causes of death in the U.S., but Hopkins researchers say the Center's way of collecting data fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. "Incidence rates for deaths directly attributable to medical care gone awry haven't been recognized in any standardized method for collecting national statistics," said Martin Makary, professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an authority on health reform. "The medical coding system was designed to maximize billing for physician services, not to collect national health statistics, as it is currently being used." The researchers say the Center’s methods, which were adopted in 1949, need to be changed to account for medical mistakes. "At that time, it was under-recognized that diagnostic errors, medical mistakes, and the absence of safety nets could result in someone's death," said Makary, "and because of that, medical errors were unintentionally excluded from national health statistics." The researchers looked at death rate data from 2000 to 2008 as well as hospitalization rates from 2013. Using that data, they determined that out of more than 35.4 million hospitalizations, medical errors caused more than a quarter million deaths. This, researchers say, represents 9.5 percent of all deaths in the U.S. each year. In 2013, the Center said heart disease was the leading cause of death in the U.S., with cancer the second, followed by respiratory disease. "Top-ranked causes of death as reported by the CDC inform our country's research funding and public health priorities," Makary says. "Right now, cancer and heart disease get a ton of attention, but since medical errors don't appear on the list, the problem doesn't get the funding and attention it deserves." Researchers caution that medical errors should not be synonymous with bad doctors, but “represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability.” Economy in U.S. appears to be sluggish but stable By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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A mixed-bag of economic reports released on Wednesday points to a sluggish but stable U.S. economy. U.S. companies added jobs last month at their slowest pace in three years, according to payroll processor ADP. Business added 150,000 jobs in April, fewer than the 194,000 added in March. The reasons for the decline were the loss of 11,000 manufacturing jobs and weaker hiring at medium and larger companies. The ADP report precedes Friday's monthly government unemployment update. Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor reported the jobless rate was little changed at 5.0 percent. Some economists expect firm growth in the range of 200,000 jobs. The Labor Department reported American workers were less productive in the first quarter of this year. Productivity fell at an annual rate of 1 percent, compared to a 1.7 percent drop in the fourth quarter of 2015. Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, has been weak for the last five years. It is a key ingredient needed for raising living standards. The bright spot was the U.S. trade deficit, which narrowed sharply in March, thanks to a drop in imports. The U.S. Department of Commerce reported the deficit shrank nearly 14 percent from February to $40.4 billion, its lowest level in a year. The report said the trade gap with China, one of America's largest trade partners, narrowed more than 34 percent. Wells Fargo Global Economist Jay Bryson said the trade deficit news came as little surprise because recent preliminary data on trade in goods signaled a sharp reduction in the overall deficit. Mother sues school system over alleged racial bias By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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A mother is suing the St. Louis school system claiming that her 9-year-old son is being prohibited from remaining in a city charter school because of the color of his skin. The mother, La'Shieka White, and her son live in the St. Louis suburbs. White filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging that her son, Edmund Lee, a third-grader at Gateway Science Academy in the city of St. Louis, would be unable to continue attending the school because of the family's move and because he is black. "Imagine our shock when we found out Edmund would no longer be allowed to attend Gateway Science Academy due to state laws because he is African-American," White said in an online petition that has gathered more than 134,000 signatures. St. Louis' decades-old desegregation law allows black students to attend schools in the suburbs, but it does not allow black students living in the surrounding county to attend city charter schools. "African-American students who live in St. Louis County are ineligible to be enrolled at Gateway, or any charter school located in the city of St. Louis," court documents say. The lawsuit asks for a permanent injunction prohibiting a transfer program based on race. Edmund has been studying at Gateway Science Academy since kindergarten. He has a 3.79 grade-point average and above-average testing scores in language arts, math and science, the lawsuit says. The family moved in March from a city neighborhood to a house in Maryland Heights, Missouri, part of St. Louis County, after the family car was broken into multiple times and regular gunshots were heard by family members. The defendant in the lawsuit is the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corp., a nonprofit governed by a board composed of superintendents of the participating city and county school districts. |
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Another cow rabies
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The second outbreak of bovine rabies this year has taken place in San Ramón, Guaycará, Golfito. The Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal said that one cow has died already. The disease is carried by vampire bats that bite cows to feed on their blood and transfer inadvertently the virus disease. The animal health agency said that the finca where the cow died has been put under quarantine and that efforts are being made to reduce the bat population. There are 20 cows on the finca, the agency said. Adjacent properties also are being inspected for sick animals, which may include dogs, said the agency. Humans can get the disease with contact from infected animals, the agency noted by way of a caution. Window-breaking suspect nabbed again By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Fuerza Pública officers detained a man Wednesday on the allegation that he was one of those window breakers along the Circunvalación highway. The police agency said that the same man has been detained for the same crime in the past. Most of the young men who break car windows to steal purses and cell telephones have been detained multiple times, according to news files. The Fuerza Pública said two different women said they had been victims and lost cell telephones. Crooks can get from $5 to $20 for a cell telephone. That is far less than the cost to replace a window. The men usually are waiting as a vehicle with a single person, the driver, pulls up to one of the four traffic light-controlled intersections on the highway in Hatillo. They probably had spotters down the road making a selection. The men break the window usually with a rock and take whatever is on the passenger seat. Hatillo is a hot spot for this type of activity, but motorists are vulnerable at every stop light and places where there are traffic jams. Police maintain stakeouts that sometimes are effective in nabbing a suspect. |
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| From Page 7: Credit reported available for biodigesters By the A.M. Costa Rica
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Viogaz S.A. says it has reached an agreement with the Kiva Organization in San Francisco, California, to provide small loans for persons and firms that want to install a biodigester. Viogaz says it has installed up to 200 biodigesters all over Central America, the United States and Nigeria. The Heredia firm has a full range of biodigesters from little to large enough to handle the waste from a large pig or dairy farm. The Kiva Organization will make loads of up to $2,500, Viogaz said. Kiva basically is a crowdsourcing organization that uses money from individual investors to make small loans in the developing world. It encourages investors to make additional loans when one has been paid back. The biodigesters can convert the organic waste into methane that can be used as fuel. |
