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Fuerza Pública officers managed to capture one of four men who burst into a home in Río Grande de Nicoya Tuesday night. Meanwhile there are scant official details of another home invasion that involved an expat couple in Guácima de Alajuela. Fuerza Pública officers said they chased a vehicle Tuesday night from Río Grande to Aranjuez de Pithaya where the driver overturned the car. A foot chase in the dark netted a Fray Casiano de Puntarenas man, who also was the subject of a warrant for attempted murder. Recovered was a 12-gauge shotgun. Police said they still were seeking three other suspects. The men are accused of breaking into a home and tying up the domestic worker there. The invaders took a flat-screen television, kitchen appliances and other items,Then they fled in the family's vehicle. That's how police spotted the vehicle at a checkpoint. Some of the items taken were found in the wrecked car, police said. The Guácima crime was Monday night, but there were no arrests. Police seldom make mention of such crimes. A neighbor managed to scare off invaders who forced their way into the home of the expat couple. Home invasions are a nightly occurrence in the Central Valley and not, it seems, in rural areas of the country. Crooks are known to stake out homes to learn family patterns. Sometimes they poison or even shoot dogs and force their way through steel bars. The Fuerza Pública and judicial agents are experts at forcing steel doors. They simply connect a chain between the metal barriers and a vehicle. Most metal doors and gates cannot withstand that force.  Ministerio de Seguridad Pública
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Thesetwo puppies were found starving and abandoned in a pineapple plantation in La Rita de Pococí, Limón. Police are seeking a good home once the puppies are released by a vet. Solís signs press freedom document By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
President Luis Guillermo Solís signed Wednesday morning the Declaration of Chapultepec, a document created in 1994 that contained 10 principles on freedom of the press. Solís did this in a meeting with representatives of the Inter American Press Association who were in town for a seminar. They are Gustavo Mohme, president of the association, Claudio Paolillo, director of the weekly Búsqueda in Uruguay and José Roberto Dutriz, director of La Prensa Gráfica in El Salvador. Paolillo is chairman of the association's Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information. Mohme is editor of the Lima, Peru, newspaper La República. In its preamble the declaration, drafted by former democratic presidents, Nobel Prize winners, leaders and journalists, declares that “Without freedom there can be no true order, stability and justice. And without freedom of expression there can be no freedom,” the association notes. The Declaration of Chapultepec contains 10 fundamental principles necessary for a free press to comply with its essential role in a democracy, according to the association. It was approved during the Hemisphere Conference on Freedom of Expression on March 11, 1994 in Mexico City and since then has been adopted by heads of state, leaders, academics, students and citizens of the Americas, it said. Dutriz has had a leading role in presenting the concept of the declaration to political leaders. Solís had a press freedom problem last month when a draft of a radio-television law gave the government the right to shut down stations that it didn't like. The bill had been copied from similar laws in authoritarian regimes. Solís quickly repudiated the draft and a minister and vice minister lost their jobs. Veracruz report is latest murder victim Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Reporter Armando Saldaña Morales has been murdered in Veracruz, Mexico. The Inter American Press Association expressed outrage and urged the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the crime. At the same time the organization voiced its concern with the climate of impunity in the country, given the violence there. Saldaña, 53, hosted a news program broadcast by radio station La Ke Buena 100.9 FM in Tierra Blanca and lived in the nearby town of Tezonapa, both in Veracruz State. His body, with signs of having been beaten and with four bullet wounds, was found in the neighboring state of Oaxaca. Gustavo Mohme, editor of the Lima, Peru, newspaper La República, declared, “We are seeing another murder which based in our experience could run the risk of going unpunished and without justice being done, like so many other cases in Mexico, where violence and inaction by authorities are what set the rules of the game.” Mohme is president of the Inter American Press Association. Saldaña had been kidnapped Saturday along with others. His body was found two days later by a group of peasants on the bank of a stream in the Oaxaca state town of Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa, where organized crime has maintained a violent presence in recent years. Claudio Paolillo, said, “We urge the Mexican government to comply with its obligation to investigate urgently and in-depth, and severely punish the perpetrators and masterminds.” He is chairman of the association's Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, Paolillo, editor of the Montevideo, Uruguay, weekly Búsqueda, added, “It is a matter of urgency to put an end to the culture of violence that is harming the very basis of human rights and democracy.” According to information gathered by the association's Rapid Response Unit in Mexico, Saldaña had not received any threat and was a journalist known in the region for his collaborations with various media, among them El Mundo and El Sol of Córdoba, La Crónica of Tierra Blanca, Radio Max and recently the La Ke Buena station. In his news items and commentary Saldaña often referred to organized crime, therefore the authorities have not ruled out any theory, including the possibility that his murder is linked to his work as a journalist. British vote in election too close to call By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
British voters head to the polls today for a parliamentary election that opinion polls show is too close to predict. Results of a national survey Wednesday showed Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party with support from 33 percent of British voters. Ed Miliband's main opposition Labor party was just one point behind. The polling suggests that the election results could force either of Britain's two main political parties to form a new coalition government with any of several parties collecting a smaller share of seats in the 650-member House of Commons. Analysts are calling the election Britain's most unpredictable and consequential in a generation. Cameron has promised if re-elected to hold a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the 28-nation European Union. The question of Scottish independence from Britain remains as a key issue. Scottish nationalists lost a plebiscite last year, but could emerge with the third biggest bloc of seats in Thursday's voting and form a coalition with the Labor party. Cameron, Britain's leader since 2010, and Miliband have both cast the election as a referendum on the country's economy, the world's fifth largest. ''People really want to think carefully before casting their vote," Cameron said at a campaign stop at a farm, "but I believe when the crunch comes, when they ask themselves the question: Do I trust Ed Miliband with the economy or do I want to stick with a plan and a team that's turning the country round? I think we can do very well on Thursday and cross that line." Miliband has attempted to characterize Cameron's Tories as the party of the wealthy. "This is the clearest choice that has been put before the British people for a generation," Miliband said, "between a Tory government that works only for the privileged few or a Labor government that will put working families first." More than 45 million people are eligible to vote at 50,000 polling stations set up throughout Britain.
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Back in the old days of Prohibition homeowners making a version of bathtub gin could suffer embarrassment and burns when the mix exploded and knocked out the wall of their home. The modern version of this is hash oil, made with marijuana and butane gas. This type of liquid marijuana is becoming more popular because it can be smoked with electronic cigarettes that vaporize the oil. However, the oil is highly dangerous to make. Ask two person who suffered burns in Brasil de Mora and were hospitalized in Hospital San Juan de Dios early Wednesday. Fuerza Pública officers who responded called judicial investigators because the apartment was littered with bags of marijuana, they said. The butane gas, which can be purchased in small canisters, appears to have ignited, agents said. Online sources say that some 17 persons have been burned in a similar fashion in California while making the hash oil. There was so much marijuana in the second floor Mora apartment that agents left weighing it up to a forensic team. There also were small cans of butane. Agents said that the two 25-year-old men suffered burns over 30 to 40 percent of their body. |
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The time has come to start disconnecting the computers and flat-screen televisions when the clouds gather. The hot weather and overcast skies are dragging moisture from the Pacific Ocean, and the south and central Pacific regions as well as the Nicoya peninsula and the Central Valley are likely to see more afternoon thunderstorms. That is the prediction from the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. Today's forecast closely resembles yesterday's. The weather institute put out a special bulletin about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday warning of downpours. There were some very localized heavy storms all over the western part of the |
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Global carbon concentrations in the atmosphere reached a record level in March, U.S. government statistics showed. For the first time since the government started tracking carbon dioxide in the atmosphere around the world, the monthly global average surpassed 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that occurs in nature but is also a byproduct of burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network had previously collected readings of 400 ppm at individual sites, such as its Arctic locations in 2012 and its Hawaiian observatory in 2013. But this was the first time 400 ppm had been reached as a global average. “This marks the fact that humans burning fossil fuels have caused global carbon dioxide concentrations to rise more than 120 parts per million since pre-industrial times,” said |
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| Tornadoes ravage three states, but no fatalities are reported By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Nearly three dozen homes were destroyed Wednesday after a series of tornadoes struck the midwestern U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. The damage mainly occurred in Oklahoma, especially on the outskirts of the capital, Oklahoma City. Officials say at least 35 homes were destroyed by a tornado that hit southwest of Oklahoma City Wednesday afternoon, and reportedly caused damage at a tiger zoo. A second tornado that struck late Wednesday night turned over several vehicles on a major roadway and downed nearby power lines. So far there have been no reports of injuries or fatalities. The storms also dumped several centimeters of rain on Oklahoma City, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood emergency. Islamic State is a natural for online humor and jokes By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
In an online “Isis Bloopers” video, a terrorist bungles his lines until his victim, dressed in orange prison gear, helps him get his speech to U.S. President Barack Obama just right. “If you want the killing to stop, you give us $10 million, change your name to Mohammad and kill Justin Bieber,” the actor playing the terrorist says. The video may be offensive to some, making light of recent brutal public murders; but, for others, taunting the self-proclaimed Islamic State is a direct attack on the militant group. And as reports from the inside grow increasingly bizarre, some analysts say mockery is now a powerful weapon of war. “One of the ways to undermine any power in the world is through jokes, through mockery,” says Said Sadek, a political sociologist with The American University in Cairo. “Mockery is the best weapon to undermine a powerful or tyrannical figure or organization.” In the past year, social media have become awash with videos, music, tweets and jokes taunting the Islamic State group like a collective cry of “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.” Videos made by the Islamic State group sometimes also draw laughter, like one that appears to show inept militants training, showing off their beginner level karate. Other videos, more terrifying but equally bizarre, show what appears to be the murders of gay men by stoning or tossing them off buildings. In one such video, militants embrace the victims before stoning them to death, apparently forgiving them. Despite these propaganda fails, one of the reasons the Islamic State group has been able to take over and largely hold vast territories in Iraq and Syria has been its sophisticated use of social media, according to Sadek. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose with propaganda,” he says. “Until very recently they had some of the best and sophisticated propaganda machines of any terrorist group we have seen before.” The Islamic State group's media savvy has been undermined by all the laughter, he says, and he believes the group is on the decline. Even the most optimistic observers, however, assume it will be several years before the Islamic State can be defeated, he cautions. Such a defeat is increasingly a worldwide concern, he says. Wars and abject poverty in the Middle East and Africa are driving people onto rickety boats to Europe at unprecedented rates, raising fears that jihadists may be hiding among the ranks. The group claims it has 70 soldiers inside the United States. It also claims responsibility for an attack in the U.S., according to SITE Monitoring Service, a Jihadi watchdog group. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned Tuesday the group’s power base could still be growing. "In relation to Daesh, we are deeply concerned about the rise of this terrorist organization that appears to be more dangerous, more complex, more global in its ambitions and reach than perhaps we've seen before,” she said on Tuesday. “The declaration of a caliphate of parts of Syria and Iraq is a rallying cry for extremists around the world," she added. In her choice of words, Ms. Bishop calls the group by the name Daesh rather than the Islamic State, or various other English acronyms. It is an Arabic acronym for Islamic State, insulting because it is a word-form normally reserved for criminals in Arabic. Besides mocking the Islamic State group with words, the militants are also mocked for their use or misuse of words. For example, last month newspapers and social media took notice when the Islamic State in one area reportedly banned Nike-brand clothing because the word Nike sounds similar to a particularly dirty word for sex in Arabic. Threat of fifth columnists has U.S. officials concerned By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A bold, new threat by an alleged American member of the Islamic State terror group has U.S. intelligence officials taking notice, although so far there seems to be little to back it up. The threat, posted on the blog site JustPaste.it, says Sunday’s attack in Garland, Texas, “is only the beginning.” “We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire,” wrote Abu Ibrahim Al Ameriki, a U.S.-born terrorist thought to be active in Pakistan's tribal areas. “The next six months will be interesting.” Al Ameriki also wrote that the target of the attack in Garland was Pam Geller, co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. The organization was holding a conference at the location of the attack featuring a contest to draw a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Police identified the gunmen in the Garland attack as Elton Simpson, 31, and Nadir Soofi, 34. The pair wore body armor and managed to wound a security guard after opening fire, but were shot and killed by a police officer on the scene. White House spokesman Josh Earnest Wednesday suggested there is little evidence thus far to suggest either man was operating under orders from the Islamic State group. “Based on what we know now, and there is still a lot more that we have to learn, this is consistent with what has previously been described as lone wolf attacks,” Earnest said. “You have two individuals that don’t appear to be part of a broader conspiracy.” U.S. intelligence officials said Wednesday they take the new threat from Al Ameriki seriously, but they added the fact such threats are being posted online does not come as a surprise. “We expect ISIL and its supporters to continue their efforts to incite fear and encourage lone wolf attacks around the world,” a U.S. intelligence official said, using an acronym for the group. “We also remain concerned about individuals in the West who are inspired by ISIL’s propaganda and may take violent action on their own,” said the official. As for the threat itself, analysts like Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert at Northeastern University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, say there is little to back it up. “There really is no evidence that ISIS is succeeding in the development of an affiliate within the United States,” Abrahms said, using another acronym to identify the group. “That seems extraordinarily unlikely." Abrahms also said the gunmen in Sunday’s attack, while well-armed, failed to do much damage. “These attackers do not seem to me to be like the trained soldiers that this terrorist is describing,” he said. In his post, Al Ameriki wrote that of the 71 Islamic State fighters in the U.S., “23 have signed up for missions like Sunday.” “It does reflect a pattern,” said former U.S. ambassador Mark Wallace, now chief executive officer at the Counter Extremism Project. “You’re seeing that ISIS and others have sought to take action against those who in any way use free speech for humor or to express themselves related to Islam, and are calling for those persons to be killed or hurt.” U.S. counterterrorism officials say more than 180 Americans have traveled to or attempted to travel to Syria or Iraq. Of those Americans, some are back in the U.S. Rosies the Riveter given honors by Dutch embassy By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Some of the American women who helped win World War II were honored last weekend at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C. The event coincided with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II. When American men went off to fight in the early 1940s, women were called upon to help work the assembly lines to produce items needed for the war effort. The women who answered this call came to be known as Rosies the Riveter. More than six million female workers helped build the planes, bombs, tanks and other war-time equipment that helped the allies win the war. The Netherlands Embassy hosted the ceremony to thank these women who came to be known as the Rosies. “My country had the opportunity to recover from a brutal occupation and become the prosperous nation it is today, in part, because of your efforts on those assembly lines seven decades ago,” Ambassador Rudolf Bekink said. “For that my nation is forever thankful.” Fourteen Rosies attended and shared their experiences. Each was given a pink dogwood flower, a symbol of the beauty, strength and positive impact of the Rosies. The Dutch specifically wanted to thank the women for building the aircraft the allied forces used to deliver 20,000 tons of food to the Netherlands in April and May of 1945, ending a long period of starvation. Mozelle Brown, who contributed to the war effort by building F4U Corsairs at Goodyear Aircraft in 1942, was surprised by the significant place the Rosies have earned in U.S. history. “We didn’t realize it at that time, it was just a job that I felt like had to be done, and we were doing it,” Brown said. The Rosies not only played a significant role in the war effort, they also demonstrated the huge impact women could have on the workforce and in their communities. Patriots cheated in playoff, NFL investigation reports By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A three-month investigation by the National Football League has concluded that it is more probable than not that the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots broke the rules when it used under-inflated footballs during a January playoff game. The report said Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady was probably aware of what was going on. Brady has denied breaking any rules. Using an under-inflated football, especially during cold weather, may make it easier for the quarterback to throw the ball and the receiver to catch it. The Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts in the American conference playoff game 45-7, and went on to defeat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. The NFL probe said that more probably than not Patriots staff members Jim McNally and John Jastremski were part of a deliberate plot to break NFL rules by releasing air from the balls before handing them over to game officials. The NFL investigation clears Patriots coach Bill Belichik of any wrongdoing and did not recommend any penalties at this time. Patriots owner Robert Kraft said he is disappointed by the report. He said it does not include any hard evidence that anyone deliberately deflated the balls. U.S. National Day of Prayer includes D.C. Bible reading By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
As presidents before him have done, Barack Obama is expected to issue a proclamation making today a National Day of Prayer. The annual observance was first proclaimed in 1952 by President Harry Truman, responding to an appeal from Rev. Billy Graham. While organizers present the event as a non-denominational exercise that belongs to all Americans, the day of prayer draws participation mostly from conservative Christians and is routinely called into question by both secular and religious progressives. Nonetheless, this year there will be ceremonies at churches as well as state capitols across the country, while in the nation’s capital, a group of particularly fervent Christians has already been reading the entire Bible on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building in anticipation. As the Capitol Bible Reading Marathon crusaded into its fourth day Wednesday, a woman was reading from the book of Zechariah. “And the Lord shall be king over all the earth,” she declared. Volunteers took turns at a lectern, and by the afternoon had finally began the New Testament. The group was expected to finish by noon today after about 90 hours of non-stop recitation. One of the readers described the purpose of the exercise: “It’s a way that we can pray for our nation, and so much is going on now around the world, so much unrest, and I just want to show people the love of Christ.” Some visitors accepted that love, and participated in Pentecostal-style prayer circles – raising their hands to the heavens and speaking in tongues. Others kept their distance. “I was in front of the White House last night and there was a guy with a bullhorn, slinging a message, and that was not very pleasant. It was just too loud,” said Jim Mahoney. But, pointing to the Bible marathon, he added: “This is fine.” Many Americans see prayer as something that’s done at home or in a church. But Rev. Michael Hall, the marathon director, sees prayer as essential to maintain America’s standing in the world. “I think by doing this that God will bless this nation, God will help this nation, and God will protect this nation,” he said. U.S. employment expected to get better in few years By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. unemployment rate is expected to get better, millions of people find work, and wages grow a little faster over the next couple of years, according to a recent study by Credit Suisse Bank analyst Julia Dumanskaya. She said poor job prospects prompted a higher than usual number of people to attend universities and other training during and after the recession in the hope of becoming more employable. She added the gradually improving U.S. economy means that about 2.5 million more people will find opportunities for work over the next couple of years. Ms. Dumanskaya projects that U.S. unemployment will fall to 4.7 percent by the end of 2016. The U.S. jobless rate has already fallen from a recession-high of 10 percent to the current 5.5 percent. Economists surveyed by the Bloomberg financial news service say the jobless rate will probably decline slightly when the latest data is reported on Friday, showing 5.4 percent of people willing and able to work are unable to find jobs. The Credit Suisse study says when unemployment falls, companies have to compete harder for workers, and that puts upward pressure on wages. But wages are currently rising more slowly than they have in previous recoveries. |
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Judicial agents raided three massage parlors and a home in Alajuela and Heredia and detained a man and two women Wednesday afternoon. Agents said the suspects had forced women into prostitution. Police said that the trio used employment ads to attract women for household chores or non-sexual work in massage parlors at a good salary. The Judicial Investigating Organization said that after a few days, the 34-year-old man in charge of the operation raped them and then forced them to perform sexual services with customers. Judicial agents said that the man made threats against the women and their families. In addition the women did not receive any payment, agents said. The two women, 30 and 34, were administrators of the massage parlors, agents said. The case is being handled as trafficking in persons. La Segua brings social issues to the stage By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Everyone knows the story of La Segua, the beautiful woman who transforms into the face of a horse with rotting flesh during a late night tryst with a solitary male. She is one of the classic Costa Rican creatures that were designed as morality lessons. But what if she were real? That is the theme of a play called “La Segua” being presented in the Teatro de la Aduana by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro. The play runs Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. through June 14. The principal character is beautiful Encarnación Sancho, a young resident of Cartago in 1750, played by Rebeca Alemán. The girl is a narcissist and egotist and maybe a bit demented, according to a summary. She sees herself as La Segua. At another level, the play is a commentary on the condition of women then and now as well as the role forced on men. Also addressed are double morality, religious problems and economic power, according to the theater company. The work was first performed in 1971. |
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| From Page 7: Beer festival planned for June 6 in Belén By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Beer brewers will show their products to the public again this year at the Festival de la Cerveza Artesanal June 6 at the Centro de Evento Pedregal in Belén. An announcement by the Asociación de Cerveceros Artesanales de Costa Rica said that there are some 60 different beers that are brewed here by independent producers. Visitors pay a 12,000-colon admission and then buy tickets for 1,000 colons a piece that they can trade for five-ounces servings of the beers of their choice. The festival said that there is a reduced admission for designated drivers who receive a special bracelet demonstrating that they cannot buy beer. The festival has been organized every year since 2012. The event also includes awards for beer. |
