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| San José, Costa Rica, Friday, May 21, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 99 | |||||||||
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Red dot shows estimated epicenter.Unusually long earthquake gets attention in entire nation By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Just like in real estate, the key to earthquakes is location, location, location. The 6.1 magnitude quake that took place at 4:16 p.m. Thursday in the Pacific off Quepos had as much force as the one that ravaged Cinchona in early 2008. But the Thursday quake caused some glass to break and some stock to fall from store shelves, but there have been no reports of serious injury. The quake was unusually long. It lasted from three to four minutes, according to the automatic recorders of the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica. The U.S. Geological Survey earthquake center set the magnitude at 5.9. Costa Rican scientists said 6.1 The survey reported that 388 persons from Costa Rica and Panamá had contacted a Web program there to report having felt the quake. Most reports were of light intensity, including a number of reports from the Quepos area. There were a few reports of moderate intensity, including one on the Costa Rican border with Nicaragua. The reports were from the entire country, from Sardinal in Guanacaste to Cahuita on the Caribbean coast and even as far away as Bocas de Toro in Panamá. The national emergency commission said that it was evaluating the results of the quake. It said the location was about 30 kilometers, about 19 miles, southeast of Quepos. The commission based its report on the Observatorio data. The quake was due to the tectonic plates stressing each other. The Coco Plate is being pushed under the Caribe Plate with the smaller Panamá Block pushing north. The commission said at 6 p.m. that there were no reports of significant damage. It also discounted the possibility of a tsunami or other ocean problems caused by the quake. The site is about 80 kilometers or 50 miles south southwest of San José. Liberia gallery will host exhibition by Swiss artist Special to A.M. Costa Rica
The expanded Hidden Garden art gallery in Liberia will host a private opening tonight of the works of Swiss artist Helga Denoth. Her show opens to the public Saturday. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A gallery summary said of the artist "she takes us by the hand to walk in a world harmonized by the science of color combination, in abstract images proposing defined feelings." In addition, a sculpture garden will be exhibited, with works in iron, recycled, and other materials, and are intermixed with paintings. The artist's works are pure art, and sometimes functional, like garden chairs and mobiles. The works reflect the joy Helga found in Costa Rica, the gallery said. The Hidden Garden is eight rooms. Owner Greg Golojuch calls it the largest in Guanacaste. The gallery exhibits over 200 artworks comprised by more than 45 artists, and he will strive to launch new exhibitions every 15 days or so, he said. The artist in residence is Carlos Hiller and his underwater images. The gallery is five kilometers west of the Liberia airport on highway 21. Early leadership is topic By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Archaeologist Ricardo Vázquez will discuss leadership in native Costa Rica at the Museo Nacional today at 3 p.m. His emphasis will be the period from 1000 to 1600 in the Caribbean of Costa Rica. The talk is part of the new exposition, “Costa Rica: Tierra de Maravillas.” Vázquez is the curator of the exposition. He has done field work in the Las Mercedes zone in Guácimo on the property of Universidad EARTH. He also has worked at the nearby La Iberia site. The museum is just east of Plaza de la Democracia between avenidas Central and 2 at Calle 17.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Friday, May 21, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 99 | |||||||||
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An army of judicial agents, mindful of a near riot at another state university, moved into the Instituto Tecnológico de Cartago Thursday to confiscate evidence in a probe of mismanaged public funds. A principal target in the investigation is Eugenio Trejos, who was a candidate for president in February. He is the university's rector and the person in charge. The investigation predates the election. The Poder Judicial said that the university's internal auditor filed a complaint last October, as did an unidentified person. No arrests were made in the raid but many boxes of documents were taken. |
The case is in the hands of the
Unidad Especializada de Fraude of the Ministerio Público. The university's press office said that 12 cases were involved and that 10 had been resolved via an internal process. It also said that no individual has been accused formally. A lot of agents participated because when judicial investigators chased a man onto the Universidad de Costa Rica campus last month a brawl broke out as students, professors and employees defended what they thought was the institution's autonomy. There were no problems Thursday at the Cartago institution. |
| Nation's first quarter exports are higher than in 2009 |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The country's exports are up 12.9 percent in the first four months of 2010 compared to the prior year, said Promotora del Comercio Exterior. Total exports were $3.2 billion. April exports were strong and amounted to $772 million, which is 2.1 percent higher than the year before, the Promotora report said. The past year saw a decline from previous years in total exports. |
Industrial exportations, mainly
computer chips and electronic cables and connections, amounted to 72.1
percent or $2.3
billion of goods exported in the first four months of the year, the
organization said. Food products were up 12.9 percent with sugar showing a $42 million increase. Even salsas showed a $5 million increase to $22 million total. Agricultural exports were $827 million or about 25.7 percent of the total. Both concentrated and unconcentrated milk showed a 189 percent increase. |
| Rule No. 1: We have met the gremlins, and they is us |
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others and certainly I, myself, know that when something needs fixing,
even something as sophisticated as the Internet connection, you must
first start with Rule No. 1. Sunday in the middle of the afternoon my Internet connection stopped working. This was very upsetting because I couldn’t use Skype to call either of my children, or my sister, which I wanted to do because I am planning a trip. No e-mail coming in and none to answer, and I couldn’t read any newspapers or articles online. To say I was irritated is an understatement. So I called Amnet. I was nervous because my last bill from them said I owed ¢47,000 and while I had checked with my bank and been told I did not, the bankers could be wrong. Actually I tried to call Amnet. Every time I was put through to technical support, I heard music for a while, then a busy signal that sounded as irritated as I was. So I tried a connection that dealt with the status of my account. I was told there were two names on the account. Since I couldn’t give them the information they wanted they told me to disconnect (“they” is the recorded voice.) Then I called my neighbor, Doug, and asked if his Internet was working. It was. So the problem was narrowed to my apartment. I tried to access my Web address on Doug’s computer. No success. So I called my son in California (on Doug’s working Skype). He has talked me through problems on my computer, but I needed an operating Internet in order to get help. I asked him to see if he could get into my mailbox, and while I was waiting, he did. “No problem,” he said and read me a couple of my latest messages. I was beginning to take this whole thing as a personal attack. “Why don’t you call Nestor, your technical adviser?” he asked. Well, because, secretly I was beginning to think that if it wasn’t Amnet’s fault, it was Nestor’s. I was now going down the lane that every time someone does something to my computer they screw up something. “Thanks,” I said. Monday I tried again to reach Amnet, but I had a yoga class to go to. I took my last bills with me planning to go to Amnet’s office after yoga. After yoga I forgot to do anything but come straight home. So I called my editor and explained the problem (I generally don’t want to tell my friends when I have problems with my PC because they to a person just smile (smugly and without sympathy) and say “You should have bought a Mac.” My editor also has a Mac but he is sympathetic to my woes. I asked him |
to tell me again how I get on my A. M. Costa Rica address. He told me. It didn’t help. I still couldn’t get through. He could. “Why don’t you call your new technician?” he suggested. “Thanks,” I said. And took a taxi to Amnet’s office – or rather their former office. Amnet has moved to a new building in Sabana Sur less than a block from where I had my yoga class. How unlucky could I get. In the air conditioned-to-freezing new office, I was told that my account was up to date and that I was the only one on it. So I asked the young woman if she would try to reach technical services and find out if it was Amnet’s problem or my computer’s (or Nestor’s). She tried. She couldn’t reach them either. Finally I asked when they had moved. A couple of months ago, she said. Gee, no notice on my bill, not even an Internet message to their customers telling them. Well, we all know the Internet is unreliable. My next to last hope was gone. It was Monday and Tuesday was coming. I called Nestor, my 15-year-old consultant, and told him about my problem. He told me about turning off my modem and waiting, etc. etc. All of which I had done, but did again. No results. So he said he would come over as soon as his mother was off work. Nestor came over and as his fingers began flying over the keys, I left him to my computer. Bad vibes don’t help technicians. About 15 minutes later he came into the living room where I was chatting with his mother. Any luck? I asked. “It’s fixed,” he said. Then I had to go and ask him what was wrong with it. “The blue cable in your computer was loose” he said. Then I remembered that I had moved my computer on Sunday so I could clean my desk; I must have pulled the cable just a little. Ah, yes, Rule No. 1: Make sure it is plugged in. It avoids a lot of Sturm und Blame. |
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| San José, Costa Rica, Friday, May 21, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 99 | |||||||||
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Worker surveys undermined abutment while
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of the A.M. Costa Rica staff A bridge on a major highway suffered damage to a concrete guard wall and then engineers found out that water had washed away much of the fill around abutments. So highway officials and the Policía de Tránsito closed the route early Thursday. It is a main highway from Desamparados to Acosta and Aserrí as well as a route to southern Costa Rica for truckers who want to avoid the Interamericana. The Consejo Nacional de Vialidad, the highway department, estimated the bridge over the Río Jorco will be out of service for at least two weeks. Two alternate but circuitous routes are being offered for those who have to make the trip. Thursday heavy machinery was in the river dredging the channel. Officials hope that a clear channel will keep rushing water away from the abutments. Fill around the |
bridge has been
washed out and there is space between the bridge and the highway. Meanwhile in Limón province, a bridge over the Río Banano became undermined, and national route 241 is closed there. That is a 15 meter bridge, about 49 feet. The Desamparados bridge, located in San Rafael Arriba, is twice that length. Officials said the main reason they closed the bridge was due to the damage inflicted by a vehicle. This put the bridge in danger of collapse, they said. The consejo said that persons traveling from Acosta toward San José can go through Alfonso XIII, San Juan de Dios and San Rafael Abajo. The other option is to pass by the Buen Pastor women's prison in San Rafael Abajo. But that route is not suitable for heavy trucks, officials said. Police will be supervising the detours, officials said. Desamparados is south of San José. |
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A troublesome rail bridge over the Río Chirripó between Matina and Estrada is being replaced. The span is an important one for the transportation of agricultural produce for export. The low, 40-meter (131-foot) bridge is damaged each year by flood waters, and repair is a constant process, said the national emergency commission. A contractor will dismantle a bridge at Lomas del Toro and rebuild it at the bridge site. The railway is in constant use. The bridge is among 21 urgent projects that were identified last year on the Caribbean coast by a commission. The Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencies is working with the Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles to get the bridge job done in 90 days. The estimate is 371 million colons or about $700,000. In addition the emergency commission is dredging this river, the Banano and the Sixaola in anticipation of the |
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This is the bridge that will be replaced.
rainy season. The commission also is purchasing garbage trucks so that residents will not dump trash in the river. |
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of being part of drug ring By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
In an ominous development, anti-drug police detained a couple Thursday and found five military shirts with insignias and letters that may link the pair to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. The pair were detained in an anti-drug sweep that captured 10 other persons. The anti-drug police said they had busted up an organization that stores drugs for the local market and also sends drugs to storage locations in Nicaragua. Six Costa Ricans were detained as well as four Nicaraguans, said the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública. Raids took place in Lomas de Ocloro, Cuidadela 15 de Septiembre, Los Guidos in Desamparados, Patarra, Paso Ancho and Goicoechea. Two other persons linked to this case had been detained earlier, police said. Police said the two Colombians, a man with the last name of Orozco Galeano and a woman with the last names of Llantén Luicio, were the leaders of this organization. They were detained in Mata de Platano, Goicoechea. Anti-drug police said they confiscated firearms and doses of crack cocaine as well as a steel box used to compress marijuana. Orozco had been detained in 2003 with 536 pounds of marijuana and 9 million colons, police said. They did not say if he were jailed. Some of the other suspects also had prior convictions, but they were free under conditional liberty, police said. Three held in market holdup By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Three men face allegations of robbery in Heredia stemming from the stickup of the AM/PM supermarket in Santa Cecilia Feb. 24. The men were arrested Wednesday in San Rafael de Alajuela and in San Antonio de Belén. They were identified by the last names of Espinoza Cuevas, Centeno Espinoza and Ramírez Ledezma. |
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