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Volcano
stages a day-long eruption
By the A.M. Costa
Rica staff
The Turrialba volcano began erupting Thursday just before 7 a.m., and it continued through much of the day. Aviation officials close the Tobias Bolañoa airport in Pavas three times to clean ash from the runway. The volcano still was erupting periodically as night fell, according to the remote cameras on the lip of the crater. The initial eruptions sent a column 1,000 meters into the air, more than 3,000 feet. The vapor was dark indicating that it contained a lot of ash. Some eruptions are mainly water vapor. Clouds kept volcano experts from watching the entire series of eruptions Thursday. By 3:51 p.m., the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico said that the emissions were mainly water vapor. Still, the Pavas airport closed down for a third time from 5 to 6 p.m. to brush away the ash. The wind direction changed several times during the day, according to the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional, and there were reports of ash falls in San José, Coronado, La Uruca, Tibás, Rancho Redondo, Guadalupe, Moravia, Ipís, Sabanilla, La Guácima de Alajuela, San Rafael de Alajuela, Heredia, Turrubares, Orotina and Esparza, said the Observatorio Vulcanológico. The Red Sismológica Nacional said that small tremors continued under the mountain and noted that the volcano had been relatively quiet for nine days.
Murders
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Rica staff
Wednesday probably was not a good time for legislator Óscar López to call the women’s institute the national institute of lesbians. The lawmaker did that on the floor of the Asamblea Legislativa during the afternoon session. A few hours later two women died at the hands of their companions in Guanacaste. Naturally the political roof fell in on López of the Partido Sin Exclusión. The lawmaker was calling for the firing of the director of the Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres because of what he said was a bias toward women. He cited some examples of the institute failing to come to the defense of men who have been victimized by women. López clearly lost any sympathy when the two murders took place, and he was facing criticism from politicians of all stripes. The institute is known for pressing for protection of women when they are victimized. One victim Wednesday night was Keylin Zapata Munguía. She died about 8 p.m. in Villa Real de Tamarindo when she was stabbed in the chest by a man it appeared she knew. The killing took place in front of a supermarket. Two judicial agents who work with victims were on the way to consult with the woman’s family Thursday when they happened to see the prime suspect walking along a street in Tamarindo. The agents made the arrest, and the Poder Judicial identified the man by the last name of Chavarría. He was identified as the woman’s boyfriend. The second victim was a 39-year-old woman with the last name of Avendaño. She was shot about 10 p.m. in Carrillo de Belén in Guanacaste. A 48-year-old man, identified as her companion surrendered to police a few hours later. Hehas the last names of Rodríguez Rodríguez.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Health officials are troubled because the current wave of respiratory virus is far more aggressive than they had anticipated. Already there are 111 patients in the Hospital Nacional de Niños, and 27 of them are in serious condition. Many are on respirators. Meanwhile, the public heath clinics are flooded, mostly with young patients, and some clinics are working 24 hours a day to accommodate the population. The Ministerio de Salud already declared a health alert over the virus Monday. Now officials say they are sending samples to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta for an evaluation. The virus is called virus sincicial respiratorio in Spanish and respiratory syncytial virus in English. The virus is common and the medical literature says that every child eventually |
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manifestation. Health officials attribute the death of six children to the virus. They also said that older adults also can end up in a dangerous condition. The virus fills the lungs with fluid and makes breathing difficult. A common progression is bronchiolitis. A 2005 article archived by the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 10,000 persons 65 and older die from the virus each year in the United States. The impact of the virus was overlooked until the 1970s when it started to be diagnosed in long-term care facilities, the article said. The health ministry says that the traditional methods are the best prevention: hand washing and covering the nose when sneezing. Officials also suggest that children with other maladies might be better off staying home from school or other activities with large attendance. The virus is carried in the air. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Lawmakers are engaged in a dispute as to whether small business should be exempt from the annual corporate tax. That proposal was placed on the table at a legislative committee by the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana. The tax itself was ruled unconstitutional in January 2015 by the Sala IV constitutional court, but magistrates inexplicably ruled that despite the deficiency in the law, corporations had to pay the money anyway. The Partido Unidad Social Cristiana, and Rosibel Ramos of that party outraged some other lawmakers when she declared a recess of the Comisión de Hacendarios before action could be taken on a tax fraud bill Wednesday. She is the chairwoman. The corporate tax bill has been rewritten and is back in the same committee. |
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a motion was made to put the tax break in the current
bill. About 55 percent of the corporations have not paid the 2015 tax because their managements have been waiting to see what the legislature would do. Frente Amplio called the motion rewarding tax evasion. Under the former and proposed law corporations that register as small businesses either do not pay tax or they pay a reduced sum. Frente Amplio said that tax exemption would cost the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública and the Judicial Investigating Organization 180 trillion colons or an astonishing $330 million. The law enforcement agencies are the principal beneficiaries of the tax. |
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| Government formally launches U.N. candidacy of Christiana Figueres | |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The country formally nominated Christiana Figueres to join the crowded field seeking to head the United Nations. The nomination took place Thursday at a campaign-like event in the Teatro Nacional. This year the selection of a new secretary general is supposed to be more open and transparent with official nominations by member states and appearances by the candidates before the U.N. Security Council and the General Assembly. Ms. Figueres, well known as a workaholic and dynamo, is leaving her position as executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change. She is credited with negotiating a climate change agreement by U.N. member countries last December in Paris. Also Thursday, the legislature received a draft of the country’s commitment under the climate change pact in the form of a proposed law. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, will make the nomination and submit it to the General Assembly. There is some effort to have the Security Council submit two names instead of one. There already are eight announced candidates, all with extensive political and international diplomatic experience. More nominations are likely. Security Council countries usually do not put forth their own candidates. The 59-year-old Ms. Figueres already has ruffled the feathers of some in capitalistic countries by saying "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution.” Although not specifically part of the climate change agreement, a global fund is envisioned to transfer $100 billion year to developing countries to reduce their environmental impact. The United States already donated $500 million. President Luis Guillermo Solís attended the Teatro Nacional ceremony and symbolically signed the letter to the United Nations nominating Ms. Figueres. Also speaking was Franklin Chang Diaz, the former Costa Rican-U.S. astronaut. |
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presence of Ms. Figueres.The United Nations and the world need a secretary general with the ability to build bridges, who is capable of discussion and listening and prepared to help reduce differences, construct agreements and anticipate problems, said Solís. He stressed her success with the climate change agreement. Even opponents of the final agreement credit Ms. Figueres with breathing new life into climate-change negotiations. Ms. Figueres has adopted the slogan Sembremos esperanza, cosechemos paz, meaning sowing hope and harvesting peace. She has a Web page and a Facebook page. The effort is more like a political campaign than what in the past had been quiet diplomatic efforts. The campaign priorities are to strengthen the United Nations, to promote collaborative diplomacy, to reach peaceful solutions of disputes in the world and to sow the seeds that would permit harvesting a sustainable peace in the future. In several of these points, Ms. Figueres points out her success with the climate-change agreement. The Security Council was expected to make a nomination by the end of the month, but the number of candidates might delay that process. The current secretary general, the Korean Ban Ki-moon, leaves office at the end of the year. |
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and spray peaceful protest By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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A demonstration in the southern U.S. city of Dallas, Texas, Thursday night erupted into chaos with 11 police officers shot. Five of the officers have died from their wounds. Dallas police say they have detained one suspect after a shootout with the police and they were in negotiations early today with another man who was firing at them from the second floor of a parking garage. Eventually police killed the gunman to end the siege. Two other persons, including a woman, also have been detained. Two of those arrested were caught after a car chase on a nearby main highway. The dead include at least three Dallas police officers and a transit department officer. They were caught in a crossfire with shots coming from several elevated locations. Officials say the attackers had intended widespread damage and a suspicious package has been secured by the city's bomb squad. Police say snipers opened fire on police during the demonstration that was being held to protest the police killings of two black men earlier this week in separate incidents Police described the downtown Dallas site as an active shooter situation because of the continuing fire fight and have told demonstrators to leave the area, which is just blocks away from where U.S. President John Kennedy was shot and killed in 1963. At least two Special Weapons and Tactics teams are on the scene. Downtown workers were being encouraged to stay home from work today. Obama tells police to end racial bias within the ranks By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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U.S. President Barack Obama has urged American law enforcement to eliminate racial bias from its ranks, saying "all of us as Americans should be troubled" by the videotaped police shootings of black men this week. "We've seen tragedies like this too many times," Obama said upon arriving Friday morning in Warsaw for a two-day meeting of North American Treaty Organization leaders. He said he felt compelled to address the shootings in a televised statement in addition to a Facebook post published hours earlier given the extraordinary interest in the incidents. Two African-American men were fatally shot by police officers in the United States over the past two days. The shootings again have raised questions about excessive police force, particularly against minorities. The president said all Americans should be concerned about the problem of frequent police shootings of black people, which he called "symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist" in the U.S. justice system. He said those disparities are backed up by statistics that show African-Americans and Hispanics are treated differently by police. "When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same," he said. "And that hurts." Earlier this week, an African-American man was fatally shot by a police officer during a routine traffic stop in the Midwestern city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, prompting Gov. Mark Dayton to call for an independent federal investigation. Police say 32-year-old Philando Castile of nearby St. Paul was killed after a policeman pulled over the vehicle. They said the incident began when an officer initiated a traffic stop, but they have not further explained what led to the shooting. They said the officer involved has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in cases like this. Dayton said he does not believe Castile would have been treated that way if he had been white. "All the facts aren't known, but from evidence that's been presented, the video that's been taken, nobody should be shot and killed in Minnesota for a traffic, a tail light being out of function. Nobody should be shot and killed while they are seated still in their car," Dayton, who is white, said Thursday. A child and a woman were passengers in the car when Castile was killed. Shortly after the shots were fired, the woman began broadcasting video on her cellphone, streaming it live on her private Facebook account. Castile was shown slumped in the car and bleeding profusely with at least one officer pointing a gun through the driver's side window. The shooting came one day after police killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling in the southern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Two white officers, responding to a call about an armed man, had pinned Sterling to the ground when at least one officer shot him. The investigation into the shooting is being led by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. William Brooks, NAACP President and CEO, said the rights organization is pushing for the passage of several pieces of legislation, including comprehensive racial profiling laws at the state and federal levels. "The laws that govern when police can use lethal force need to be reformed and they need to be reformed now,” said Amnesty International’s Jamira Burley. “Philando Castile should not have had to fear for his life during a traffic stop.” Samuel Walker, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska and an expert on police accountability, said “There’s deep-seated racial prejudice” among some white Americans “and that plays out in police encounters.” FBI chief defends decision before House committee By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The chief of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is defending his decision to not pursue a criminal case against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified national security information while she was secretary of State, even though he said investigators found great carelessness in her use of private, unsecured email servers. FBI Director James Comey told a House of Representatives panel Thursday that after a year-long probe, investigators decided there was no evidence that either Mrs. Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, or her aides intended to break U.S. laws against the disclosure of classified materials. The investigators found 113 classified documents in the more than 30,000 Clinton emails they reviewed from her 2009-2013 tenure as the country's top diplomat. Comey also said that it would have been inappropriate to charge Mrs. Clinton, seeking to become the first U.S. female president, under a 1917 U.S. law making gross negligence a crime. He said that the law had only been used once, to bring charges in an espionage case, and that Justice Department prosecutors "have grave concerns whether it's appropriate to prosecute someone for gross negligence." Comey's testimony came two days after announcing that investigators had concluded no criminal case should be brought against Mrs. Clinton, a recommendation Attorney General Loretta Lynch accepted Wednesday, ending the case without any charges against the candidate. Mrs. Clinton, who has yet to comment on the FBI's findings that she and her colleagues were extremely careless in the handling of the classified material, answered questions from FBI investigators for three and a half hours last Saturday. Comey said there was "no basis to conclude that she lied to the FBI." Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the panel's chairman and a Republican, said he was mystified and confused by how the FBI could find that Mrs. Clinton mishandled dozens of classified documents and then not be criminally charged. "If your name is not Clinton," Chaffetz said, "or you're not part of the powerful elite, then Lady Justice will act differently. Hillary Clinton created this mess." FBI Director Comey testified in the midst of the highly charged national presidential campaign, with Mrs. Clinton set to face off with the presumptive Republican nominee, real estate billionaire Donald Trump, in the November national election to pick the successor to President Barack Obama, who leaves office in January. But Comey said the investigators conducted their investigation in an apolitical and professional way. The FBI chief said he concluded that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Clinton. Republicans on the panel noted sharp differences in Mrs. Clinton's past comments on her use of the private email server and handling of the classified material from what the FBI investigators found. The FBI determined that over four years as secretary of State, she used multiple servers positioned at her New York home, not just the one she has acknowledged. Democrats on the panel did not defend her email practices or question the FBI findings, but rather noted that her conduct did not reach that in another celebrated U.S. national security document case, when former CIA chief David Petraeus acknowledged he leaked eight folders of secret documents to a woman who was his lover and writing a biography about him. Comey said Petraeus' conduct was clearly intentional while Mrs. Clinton's was not. When her use of a private email system first came to light more than a year ago, Mrs. Clinton claimed she used one phone for both government and private emails for convenience, which Comey said the FBI agreed with. But Mrs. Clinton later acknowledged use of the single email system was a mistake, leading to the FBI investigation. Comey said the FBI, after the lengthy investigation, concluded that Clinton was not "particularly sophisticated" in the use of electronic information. But in the aftermath of the FBI findings about Mrs. Clinton's email records, Speaker Paul Ryan, leader of the Republican-controlled House, called on Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to block her from receiving the national security briefings. Ryan said blocking her from the intelligence information certainly constitutes appropriate sanctions. Ryan said if Clapper refuses the request, he wants the intelligence chief to provide his rationale for giving Mrs. Clinton the information despite the FBI findings. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed the Republican complaints about the FBI's decision against prosecuting Mrs. Clinton. "We have an investigation of the investigation of the investigation," she said. "How long can this go on?" Comey's testimony occurred a week after a political uproar over an encounter Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, had with Ms. Lynch, the country's top law enforcement official, on an airport tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona. Both Bill Clinton and Ms. Lynch said they chatted for half an hour, although not about the email case, but subsequently regretted doing so while Lynch was overseeing the email investigation. Trump has denounced the no-prosecution decision, saying at one point on Twitter, "FBI director said 'Crooked Hillary' compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! Rigged System." Well after Mrs. Clinton left office in early 2013, she deleted about 30,000 emails she and her lawyers deemed to be personal and turned another 30,000 official government-related emails over to the State Department, as she was required to do in any event because of government record-keeping regulations. But Comey said thousands more emails were discovered as well. Mrs. Clinton said she never sent or received emails that were marked as classified documents. But Comey said FBI investigators found that 110 emails in 52 email chains contained classified information at the time they were sent, with eight of the chains having top secret information in the emails she turned over to the State Department. Three other emails with classified information were found in the additional emails. Comey said investigators do not believe that Clinton's emails were hacked by hostile, foreign interests. However, he said hostile actors gained access to private commercial interests that Mrs. Clinton corresponded with and that her extensive use of personal email outside the United States and in the territories of extensive adversaries makes it possible they gained access to her personal accounts. National polling shows Clinton with about a five percentage point edge over Trump four months before the Nov. 8 election to pick the successor. Republican opinions mixed after meeting with Trump By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Top congressional Republicans claimed party unity after meeting Thursday with presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, even though dozens of lawmakers shunned the encounter and others withheld endorsing the candidate less than two weeks before the Republican National Convention. “We had a great meeting,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement. “It was an important opportunity for our members to get additional information about Mr. Trump’s campaign and ask questions about issues that matter to Americans.” “It’s clear that our party is committed to defeating Hillary Clinton and Democrats this fall,” Ryan added. Trump concurred via Twitter. Trump met behind closed doors with House and Senate Republicans at separate venues near the Capitol. It was Trump’s second pilgrimage in the last three months to reach out to lawmakers of his own party, many of whom plan to skip the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, that begins July 18. Rep. Charles Dent of Pennsylvania met Trump for the first time Thursday. He confirmed he would not go to Cleveland, saying his opinions of the nominee-to-be had not changed. "I’ve been expressing my concerns about the many incendiary comments, the lack of policy specificity," Dent said. "The few policies that we have heard have often been contradictory and conflicted. So those have been my concerns walking into the meeting, and they’re still my concern now." Others emerged decidedly upbeat. “We need him to win,” said Rep. Joe Barton of Texas. “We’re tired of having a President Obama and we don’t want a President Clinton.” Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee said Trump was engaging and made a good impression before a tough crowd. “The most reassuring thing he said was that we needed to work together, and we do,” Roe said. “We have to if we’re going to win this race, the race for president. We’re going to have to work together as a team.” Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina was noncommittal after listening to Trump. “I think the room was generally receptive and there are some folks that still have some questions. I remain to be one of them,” Sanford said. That some Republicans skipped the meeting was no surprise. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois is openly campaigning against Trump, going so far as to run television ads saying the presumptive nominee is not fit to be commander in chief. Green Party seeking access to ballots in all U.S. states By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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In the closing months of the 2016 presidential election campaign, the Green Party calls itself the real difference and has invited supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to consider the party as a political home. The Green Party is based on green principles, those of an ecologically sustainable society, such as environmentalism, non-violence and grassroots democracy. But the party is also fighting for basic access to voters. “We are fighting to open up the debates, so the American people can know who their choices are,” Jill Stein, one of Green Party’s presidential hopefuls, said in June. Presidential debates are usually between the candidates for the two main parties, the Republicans and Democrats. Stein also called for state ballots to be opened to all candidates. “We’re calling for a common-sense rule for participation," she said. As of June 2016, the Greens were on the ballot in 20 states and were working towards getting on the ballot in most others. Requirements for ballot access vary from state to state and can be stringent. The Greens say they are committed to social justice, renewing a democracy without the support of big money corporations, and long-term environmental sustainability programs. The party also supports raising the minimum wage, election reform and addressing climate change. “The American people are tired of the rigged economy and rigged political system that created it. The presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees are the most disliked and mistrusted of all times,” Ms. Stein said. On foreign policy, the Green Party calls for the end of nuclear weapons by declaring a no-first-strike policy and a commitment that the “U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on a non-nuclear nation.” The party also pledges to support peaceful negotiations in the Middle East. “We will work to demilitarize and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments. We recognize the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in helpless situations,” reads the party's 2014 platform. On the domestic front, the Greens demand universal health care with a single-payer national health insurance that guarantees treatment to all Americans, and support women’s productive rights by urging clinics to be accessible and to offer free contraceptive and abortion consultations. The Green National Committee approved its party platform in 2014, but an official said it is being revised. The official platform is will be presented to the party’s presidential candidate during the Greens' national convention set for Aug. 4 to 7 at the University of Houston in Texas. Besides Ms. Stein, William Kreml is also running to become the party's presidential nominee. Two women seek position as British prime minister By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom have been chosen to compete for the prime minister's position. On a second ballot Thursday, conservative members of parliament cast 199 votes for May, 84 for Leadsom and 46 for Justice Secretary Michael Gove to lead the Tory Party. Gove was eliminated and the two women now have the chance to become the country's next prime minister. About 150,000 members of the Conservatives Party across Britain will now vote by postal ballot to decide whether May or Leadsom become Britain's first woman prime minister since Margaret Thatcher was forced from office in 1990. The result would be known on Sept. 9. The winner will replace Prime Minister David Cameron who announced his resignation after Britons voted June 23 to leave the European Union. The new prime minister will be responsible for leading Britain's exit negotiations with the 28-nation bloc, as well as leading a country shaken by global markets' reaction to the Brexit referendum. The 53-year-old Leadsom, who was elected six years ago as a member of parliament and backed the leave campaign in the referendum, said Thursday that her top priority would be to guarantee tariff-free trade with the EU after leaving. The 59-year-old May, who supported the losing remain side, said she is the best person to unite a party that, like the country, is divided over the referendum result. |
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Anti-bribery legislation advances By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The legislature approved on first reading Thursday a rewrite of the bribery law to comply with the standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The law, No. 19.904, will adjust the local laws to cover in more detail international transactions, said a legislative summary. Costa Rica is seeking to affiliate with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which has been mainly for First World nations. The measure needs one more vote to go to Casa Presidencial. Police raid seeks child pornography By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Judicial agents raided the home of a child pornography suspect Thursday and confiscated 400 computers disks, they said. The property was in Aurora de Heredia. The raid came after agents detained the homeowner, a 39-year-old man, at his workplace in la Sabana, they reported. The Judicial Investigating Organization said that they were alerted by a telephone call that someone has placed child pornography on a social network, and then they worked to identify the individual who did that. Culture program in many communities By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud will once again offer the Enamorate de tu Ciudad program outside the metro area as well as in San José. The two-day event will be in Palmares, Cahuita on the Caribbean coast, Paraíso de Cartago, San Isidro de El General, Santa María de Dota, San Marcos de Tarrazú and San Pablo de Léon Cortés. Enamorate de tu Ciudad features music, dancing, games, sales of art work and crafts as well as story-telling. In San José the events are in Parque Morazán and Parque España. The schedule is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. |
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The fortification of products and the use of the seal to some extent is a marketing decision, although the mandatory addition of such substances as folic acid and iodine are know to improve public health. |
