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Embezzlement suspect
encountered in California By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A woman who fled to the United States to avoid an embezzlement charge here has been arrested in California. She was identified as Elizabeth Ramírez González, 45. Law enforcement officials here said that the Costa Rica Dirección de Inteligencia y Seguridad, the local representative of the International Police Agency, provided the information for U.S. police to locate her. Ms. Ramírez was using the identity of a Mexican woman while running a cell phone and satellite antenna store in Corona, California, near Los Angeles. She was arrested Sunday. The woman is accused of stealing about $100,000 from her employer, the Organismo Internacional Regional de Salud Agropecuaria, from 1998 to 2002 when she was a manager of funds, said law officers here. She entered the United States by air on a legal visa in 2002 and continued to live there, officers said. Agents here said that the woman probably would be deported from the United States because she is an illegal alien there. Despite bullet, store owner runs down robbery suspect By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Two robbers followed a woman into a small store in San Rafael Abajo de Desamparados, took her purse and a cell phone and then fled. The owner of the store followed them and managed to grab one of the robbery suspects, a woman, at the cost of getting a bullet in his leg. Shot was Arturo Vargas, who runs the small diaper and infant wear store with his wife. The robbery victim was not identified. Vargas was not present during the robbery but heard about it seconds later and ran into the street seeking the criminals. He grabbed one of two suspects, but a third person got out of a car and shot at him four times. Then the car fled with two of the three individuals. The third, the woman, was left at the mercy of an angry crowd that beat her until police arrived. Violence flares again in Mexican town of Oaxaca By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Police in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca have used tear gas to disperse protesters attempting to take control of a stadium. The demonstrators threw rocks at police Monday and set fire to vehicles as they tried to enter the stadium where the renowned Guelaguetza festival is scheduled to start on July 23. Dozens of people were injured. The leftist demonstrators said they wanted to hold their own event as an alternative to the official festival. The city was paralyzed for much of 2006 by political upheaval which prevented the Guelaguetza festival from being held. Demonstrators took over parts of the city to demand the resignation of the governor of Oaxaca state, Ulises Ruiz. Mexican federal police regained control of the town in October and ended the protests. The crisis began in May of last year when teachers walked off the job demanding better pay and school funding. The demonstrations became violent when protesters critical of Ruiz joined the cause. At least nine people were killed in the violence, including a U.S. journalist. Water to be out most of day By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados will cut off the water today in Santa Ana, Escazú, parts of Desamparados, Ciudad Colón and Alajuelita today because the Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz is doing work that interrupts electricity to various pumps maintained by the water company. The outage is planned until about 6 p.m.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The country will host three foreign president Aug. 8 for a celebration of 20 years of peace in Central America. Attending will be Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, Elías Antonio Saca of El Salvador and Óscar Berger of Guatemala, according to Casa Presidencial. There was no mention of Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, a key player 20 years ago. The regional summit, hosted by President Óscar Arias Sánchez, also will discuss regional challenges the countries face, said Casa Presidencial. Tight security is expected. Those who visit the country's beaches or marvel at white-faced monkeys in a national park today probably do not realize the tragedy of Central America in the 1980s. The revolution in Nicaragua against a tyrant resulted in a leftist government that attracted the attention of the United States. At the same time Guatemala and El Salvador were in civil war, the wealthy elite against the working class. Thousands died. |
With the Cold War as a backdrop, the
United States paid for a
revolutionary force, the contras, to attempt the overthrow of the
Nicaraguan Sandinistas led by Ortega. Honduras was a staging area for
northern Nicaraguan rebels. Costa Rica was becoming militarized, too, in the mid-1980s. Police forces had been transformed into light infantry. Hidden airfields in the north provided landing sites for planeloads of supplies to Nicaraguan rebels from the United States. There was even a contra radio station beaming propaganda from San José. Arias based his first presidential campaign on a peace platform. His work toward peace became the Esquipulas Accord in August 1987 that eventually resulted in 1990 elections in Nicaragua. For that he was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize. But it was even more years before rebels in El Salvador accepted a peace plan and even longer before the army war against the Indian populations ceased in Guatemala. By that time the Cold War had become history. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Medical researchers have been looking for what some people call a magic bullet in their hunt to fight rising obesity rates worldwide. In less than a decade, studies show, 75 percent of adults in the U.S. will be overweight. Medical researchers have yet to find any magic cure for obesity, but scientists at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., say they may have something close. Scientists have known for a long time about a link between chronic stress and obesity. Now researchers at Georgetown recently made what they call a stunning advance. Dr. Zofia Zukowska, with Georgetown University's Medical School, says of the discovery: "The stunning thing is that we have actually discovered the exact mechanism by which people get fat when they are stressed and eat high fat, high sugar diet. And by knowing the mechanism, we can now manipulate the fat." Dr. Zukowska and her colleagues put laboratory mice under the same type of stress they would experience in the wild such as meeting up with a more aggressive mouse. They then fed these mice an equivalent of a fast food diet. The mice became obese. Dr. Zukowska and her colleagues found an increased |
amount of a chemical called
neuropeptide Y in these mice. This
chemical is activated by stress and helps stimulate the growth of fat
cells. "So now you have a constellation of more vessels supplying
nutrients to the fat, fat cells multiplying and growing." And the fat in mice grew around their middle, just as it does in humans. Midsection fat is the most dangerous kind because it affects the heart and liver, causing heart disease, adding to cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke. But the researchers found they could block the fat-causing neuropeptide Y with a different chemical. "We found that in addition to reducing the abdominal fat, we also improved the metabolism. And all those problems that the mice had such as hypertension and glucose intolerance and fatty liver, it became markedly reduced or prevented" said Dr. Zukowska. What is more, fat-causing neuropeptide Y seems to work in the human body much like it does in mice. If so, Dr. Zukowska said it would be a major advance in the battle against obesity. "We think we not only are able to manipulate fat composition and maybe make the body more beautiful, but also actually treat obesity and metabolic syndrome." The researchers say many more studies need to be done before human trials can begin. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Venezuelan station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) is now being shown on cable and satellite after being forced off the air by President Hugo Chávez May 27. The opposition-aligned TV station began its new programming Monday. The chief of RCTV told a news conference last week that the station's return is a victory for Venezuelan people who want its programs. |
Chávez refused to renew
RCTV's license to broadcast on a public
frequency for allegedly backing a failed coup against him in 2002.
Other national private networks also opposed Chávez, but their
criticism of the government is now softer and they have retained their
licenses. In Caracas, VenezuelAnalysis.com estimated that the new signal will be available to about 50 percent of the national audience via cable companies. The Web site news story said that the television station may begin offering its signal to other cable providers, including some in Central America and the Caribbean. |
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