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jump by 19 more sufferers By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
and wire service reports Costa Rica swine flu cases have grown to nearly 70 with 19 more being confirmed since Thursday. The Ministero de Salud put the number at 69 Tuesday. Health officials were reported in search of contacts for the individuals who make up the new cases in an effort to prevent futher transmissions. In Chile officials say a 37-year-old man has died after contracting the swine flu virus, in what is South America's first death from the new flu strain. Officials said Tuesday that the man, identified as Fernando Vera, died early Monday in the city of Puerto Montt, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital, Santiago. He is reported to have suffered respiratory failure. Chile has 313 confirmed swine flu cases, more than any other country in South America. Before the Chilean death was announced, the World Health Organization had put the global death toll from the flu strain at 117. The health organization also said it is closer to declaring the swine flu outbreak a pandemic as the infection appears to be taking hold outside North America. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization assistant director general, Tuesday said a number of countries appear to be making the transition from travel-related cases to sustained patterns of infection in local communities. The agency has said previously it needs to see clear evidence of sustained community transmission of the virus from person to person in at least two regions of the world before it raises its alert to the Phase Six pandemic stage. The alert level is currently at Phase Five. The organization says 64 countries have officially reported nearly 19,000 flu cases. Fukuda has said a pandemic has nothing to do with the severity of the disease, but rather with its geographic spread. President of Brazil visits for discussions with Arias By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva arrived in Costa Rica Tuesday afternoon for an official visit. The discussions are likely to revolve around energy and access to markets. The visiting president will be the guest of honor at a luncheon today in the Teatro Nacional. Da Silva has been successful in negotiating with all Brazil's trading partners, including the United States, the People's Republic of China and the more leftist governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. On his arrival, da Silva praised President Óscar Arias Sánchez for his contributions to peace. He noted that Arias had visited him in Brazil. Little progress reported on Cuba's suspended status By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says no consensus has been reached on re-admitting Cuba to the Organization of American States, which suspended the country in 1962 in response to its Communist government. Secretary Clinton made the comment Tuesday as she wrapped up a day of negotiations in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where foreign ministers from the 34-member organization have been holding their General Assembly. Clinton, who now heads to Egypt, has said Cuba must meet certain conditions before it can rejoin the Organization of American States. She says Cuba must release political prisoners and improve basic rights first. Earlier, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya urged that the resolution suspending Cuba's membership be revoked. He told the gathering of foreign ministers it is time to correct what he called "that mistake." Zelaya said failure to rescind the suspension would make Latin American nations accomplices in the decision. The U.S. stance has left it increasingly isolated as several Latin American countries have restored diplomatic ties with Cuba and pushed for an end to the decades-old U.S. embargo. Other Organization of American States members, including Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela, have described Cuba's exclusion from the organization as a mistake. Cuba, for its part, has said it has no interest in resuming its membership. Teacher convicted of sex abuse By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A male teacher was convicted Tuesday in Liberia of sexual abuse of a female student and sentenced to 16 years in prison. The crimes took place from April to August 2007, said the Poder Judical, which identified the teacher by the last names of Morales Bejarano. Our reader's opinion
He opposes income taxon U.S. citizens overseas Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I moved to Costa Rica in 2003 because I no longer wanted to live in a country that would elect a truly venal man like George Bush as president. I have no property or assets there, haven't returned since I left and have no plans to go back there ever. So I have not used/consumed any goods, services nor have I had any impact on any infrastructure supported by taxpayer dollars in the U. S. since 2002. It should come as no surprise that I think I should be exempt from paying taxes of any kind to the IRS, (Infernal Revenue Sheisters) But more than that, I think it's unconstitutional for the government to demand that I do so. The fact that I was born in the U. S. and am still a U. S. citizen should not give the government the right to permanently tie me to their system of taxation when The System isn't doing anything/I'm not asking it to do anything for ME. I find this tax precept particularly odious because the same people in the government who are now making the most noise about chasing down private citizens who may be making money abroad are the ones who have studiously avoided doing anything about the billionaires and their billion dollar corporations who for years have been shipping hundreds of thousands of U. S. jobs overseas in order to avoid paying payroll taxes, (among other things.) Apparently Obama, et. al., want to do something about this by proposing new taxes on companies that "outsource." This is long overdue and is totally appropriate because these companies and their wealthy owners still live/work/consume services in the U. S. Someone suggested to me recently that if I have no plans to return to the U. S. and don't want to pay taxes, I should renounce my citizenship. This would be a really bad idea. I've spoken to several Gringos who've renounced after coming here, and they all tell me that they were treated like terrorists by immigration officials when they wanted to return to the U. S for a visit. I understand that there is an $86K exemption, but the principal still reeks. Dean Barbour
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Drug investigators detained five persons Tuesday in an investigation that began April 13, 2008, when police in Nicaragua stopped a Costa Rican-registered tractor trailer containing 705 hidden kilos of chlorohydrate of cocaine. The driver, identified by the last names of Marín Jiménez, was carrying a legal load of cabbage, carrots and tomatoes, anti-drug police said here Tuesday. Police here began the investigation and formalized it with the filing of documents last October. What they uncovered, they reported Tuesday was an elaborate scheme to ship cocaine from Costa Rica through Central America to México. There, of course, the drugs were smuggled into the United States. The key element in the scheme were tanker trailers of the type used to transport agricultural chemicals. Smugglers would put packages of cocaine in the tankers and then fill the tanks with ammonium or other caustic liquids. It was not until last April 29 that anti-drug agents in Peñas Blancas intercepted one such tanker. They said it was carrying 1,560 kilos of cocaine, some 3,432 pounds. The arrests Tuesday of four men and a woman were related to the operation and the cleaning of these tanker trailers. The Policía de Control de Drogas still is seeking an individual they identify as a ringleader. There may be some environmental concerns, too. Police said the tankers were taken to a location in the Provincia de Limón where they were cleaned of chemicals, which were dumped on the ground. A man with the last names |
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of Montealto Calderón was detained Tuesday in Matina, and police said he was involved with cleaning the tanks. Also detained was a man with the last names of Ugalde Jiménez who lives in the southern zone. One of the vehicles involved is registered to a woman with the last names of Cubillo Elizondo. She was detained in Cariari de Pococí. Another vehicle is registered to an individual with the last names of Castro Vargas, who was detained in Coto Brus. A man who is accused of taking care of the vehicles also was detained and identified by the last names of Molina Araya. A man identified by the last names of Arias Fallas still is being sought, said the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública. |
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and wire service reports Local veterans will commemorate D-Day Saturday with a gathering at a local pub. Although many are retired, most still are too young to have participated in the World War II beach landing 65 years ago. The event at Stan's Irish Pub in Zapote is being organized by the American Legion, although others are welcome. Most Legion members are American, but the Normandy landing included troops from Canada, the United Kingdom and Norway, as well as Free French units. Pub owner Stanley Salas, himself a U.S. veteran, said that the 4 p.m. commemoration might include the showing of an appropriate movie about World War II. The pub is on the north side of the highway east of the bridge over the Circunvalación and west of Casa Presidencial. Salas said his business is opposite the Cruz Roja in Zapote. On June 6, 1944 over 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, in northern France, in a push to liberate Europe from Hitler's Nazi forces. Now, 65 years later, the memories of that day linger along that windswept coast and its quiet villages. Stretches of broad, sandy beach form much of this coastline in northern France. It is a good place to walk and think. But, on June 6, 1944, it was not so. American, British and Canadian troops and French commandos stormed these beaches from their landing craft. They ran, crawled and fought their way through German gunfire from above the beaches. This was "Operation Overlord," commonly known as D-Day. The Allied operation took place on beaches all along the Normandy coast. Over 150,000 Americans, Canadians, Britons and French came ashore here. Another 20,000 Americans parachuted behind enemy lines. Stephane Simmonet is a military historian at the War Memorial Museum in nearby Caen. "It was the beginning of the liberation of Europe. The objective of the Allies was Berlin, not Normandy, not Caen," he said. In the months after D-Day came the liberation of Paris, |
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Visitors observe the U.S. Navy memorial on
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the push across the Rhine River into Germany and onward. It would be another year before the war in Europe was over. The sacrifices were great. In the U.S. cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer lie the remains of more than 9,000 Americans who died on the beaches of Normandy or fighting in the hinterland in the weeks that followed. In the nearby German war cemetery in La Cambe lie nearly 20,000 German soldiers. More than 425,000 Allied and German soldiers were killed, wounded or missing in action during the fighting in Normandy. Thousands of French civilians were also killed, mainly in Allied bombings. Eight allied ships were sunk here, and 1,068 sailors and coast guardsmen died. Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. casualties on the first day of the invasion were Navy. Last year a memorial to the Navy and coast guardsmen was inaugurated at Utah Beach. These were the combatants who ran the landing craft that brought troops to the beach or brought fire on the enemy from offshore. |
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Air Force general vows he'll
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President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead U.S. Southern Command promised Tuesday to continue the interagency approach that has been successful in the region. The nominee, Air Force Lt. Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the
The issues in Central and South America cannot be solved by the military alone, Fraser said, adding that many countries need financial, economic and governmental expertise to move ahead. The U.S. military can work with nations in the region to improve security and increase the professionalism of the militaries, but it is only part of what is needed, he said. “It's a whole-of-government approach; it's an interagency approach; it's an international approach,” the general said. Fraser said he sees two basic issues that U.S. Southern Command needs to work on. The first is to defend the southern approaches to the United States. “It is and will remain a key effort,” he said. The second, he said, is to develop “an international and interagency approach. The issues that are resident there require us to take that approach.” “I am no stranger to Latin America,” he said. “I spent three years in high school in Bogota, Colombia, graduating there in 1971. During this time, I gained a life-long appreciation and affection for Latin America.” |
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Residents in west will get improved alternate route By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The transport ministry has told residents of Santa Ana and the Ciudad Colón area that there will be improvements made on the alternate route from Ciudad Colón through Santa Ana and Escazú. At issue is the 310-colon toll expected to be charged shortly by Autopista del Sol, the concession holder that has improved the Autopista Próspero Fernández. Residents of the area have been protesting the toll and note that it will put a burden on individuals who have to travel the route several times a day. The toll is collected coming and going instead of just one way, which had been the case. The amount of the toll has been set by the Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos, not the concession holder. It is about 54 cents, but considerably higher than the former 80-colon toll charged just one way. In addition the transport minister, Karla González, said that bus turnouts will be constructed along the highway and that a pedestrian bridge will be put up over the improved highway at The Form office center in Pozos de Santa Ana. These also have been demanded by residents. Ms. González met with residents. One issue was the time period. She said that enlarging the tunnel underneath the autopista at Pozos was a legal issue. In order to do so, the ministry has to take over two adjacent lots. The number of owners total 42, so contacting them has been a problem, she said. |
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