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Ms. Chinchilla came from her pilgrimage to Cartago to host a
lunch for Chinese's foreign minister, Yang Jiechi Ms. Chinchilla will visit
People's Republic in 2011 By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
President Laura Chinchilla will be going to the People's Republic on a state visit in January, the foreign ministry said Sunday. That information was included in a written release relating to the visit here of China's foreign minister, Yang Jiechi. The visiting Chinese politician also visited with the president, who interrupted her pilgrimage to Cartago to do so. Costa Rica's foreign minister, René Castro, was quoted saying that he and his Chinese counterpart discussed infrastructure and clean energy and that there are some ideas on the table relating to biotechnology and an exchange of scientists. The idea is to construct an agenda so that Ms. Chinchilla can ask the Chinese for money. One concrete achievement Sunday was the signing of an accord in which China will provide $10 million more for completion of the new stadium being constructed in Parque la Sabana. That money already had been promised. Also at the sessions was Marco Vinicio Ruiz, the Costa Rican ambassador-designate to China. The foreign ministry said that China and some other countries would be invited to compete for a joint venture in energy-producing projects. Mentioned were dams on the Río Reventazón and the large hydro project planned for the Diquis region on the Río Térraba. The ministry characterized China as a fundamental actor in these projects. The visit comes at a time when a minor scandal surrounds the stadium project. Television cameras captured material destined for the stadium ending up at a Sabana Sur condo project. At the same time China has been lobbying to allow workers on the stadium project to continue their efforts on the condo complex. The country also wants to import about 300 more workers. Some politicians quietly favor the idea, although immigration officials have rejected the idea to bring in more Chinese technicians. Bocas del Toro couple identified by investigators By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
More information is emerging about the multiple slayng suspects who fled through Costa Rica. The pair, who had lived in Bocas del Toro, used fake names there and here. The man known as William Cortez of Texas has been identified as William Dathan Holbert of North Carolina. His companion, known here as Jeane Cortez, is identified as Laura Michelle Reese, said sources in Panamá. Both are U.S. citizens. Both spent time in Costa Rica after they fled Panamá. They stayed for a time in Nuevo Arenal and then spent a night in La Trinidad de Sarapiquí, which is on the Río San Juan at the mouth of the Río Sarapiqui. The pair are suspects in the murder of seven persons in Bocas del Toro and of taking over the properties of those they killed. They passed as Dutch citizens there. A North Carolina television station said that Holbert had lived in Henderson in that state. The BlueRidgeNow.com Web site said that he was a North Henderson High School football player and 1997 graduate. He divorced his wife in early 2005 and left her and three children after his landscape business collapsed and a bank foreclosed on his home, said the news source. Costa Rican investigators are trying to follow the couple's path here. They are believed to have visited Costa Rica and perhaps lived here for a time. Investigators are trying to see if their travels ovelapped with a handful of missing and murdered expats. Agents also searched the La Trinidad cabina where the couple stayed before trying to flee to Nicaragua. It is on the Río San Juan in that country where police and soldiers captured them. They were shipped back to Panamá quickly. Former ESL teacher here wants to be a U.S. senator By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
There is life after teaching English in Costa Rica. One former ESL teacher here in the mid-1980s is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Colorado. The man is Andrew Romanoff, who is challenging incumbent Michael F. Bennet. Romanoff's Web site said that his early jobs included teaching English in Central America and working at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. He has served in that state's legislature. His biography said that he attended Yale University and then came to Costa Rica and Nicaragua to teach English. Then he returned to get a law degree and a master's degree.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 150 | |||||||||
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| The Central Pacific Chamber of
Commerce is encouraging residents and tourists alike to visit the
Centro Commercial Urena to vote on pieces by local artists. The
event is ArtPrizeJacó 2010, and the chamber |
said a donor provided $5,000 in prize money. The works range from the traditional to the wild. More than 250 persons already have voted, the chamber said. The voting is open through Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Transport contractors managed to open the bridge over the Río Seco Friday night, about 48 hours after the roadway gave way, dumped a tractor-trailer in the river and effectively blocked the Interamericana Norte. The roadway just before the highway bridge required the addition of some 5,000 cubic meters of gravel and rock, said the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes. Earlier Friday they said that the work might take as long as three days. Pedestrian passage was restored Thursday morning when a ramp was placed to connect the bridge with solid land. Local residents of Miramar used the ramp as did some bus passengers who traveled the bridge on foot. Stuck were dozens of tractor trailers with loads on either side of the bridge. |
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anonymous individuals who may have been mining gravel from the river. That changed the course, they said, and jeopardized the bridge approach. As part of the work last week, large backhoes cut a deeper primary channel for the river to keep the waters away from the land supporting the highway. The mishap was a pain for residents in Guanacaste, who had to take the ferry to travel to the Central Valley. Northbound trucks also took the ferry with the goal of doubling back to the Interamericana above the missing section. So there was a traffic jam at the Puntarenas ferry dock. The ministry suggested an alternate route, but drivers found their own, including a route through a stream. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A woman is going on trial Tuesday after a 2005 arrest for managing a prostitution establishment in a low-rent district of San José. The location is in the same area where a prostitution raid took place in April, but the alleged owner of the operation was out of the country. The woman who is going to trial has the last names of Araya Barboza. She was detained July 20, 2005, after an undercover investigator negotiated a deal at what was then a beauty parlor, said the Poder Judicial. The raid last April involved a bar in the area, which agents said was a front for prostitution. The April rain also targeted a beauty parlor in Pavas. Three persons with Chinese names were detained in that operation as well as two Costa Ricans. |
The La Castellana is best known as a
gasoline station by that name on Avenida 10. The Poder Judicial said that in April 2005 the beauty parlor was charging 10,000 colons for a sexual encounter. That was about $21 then. There also was an outcall service, the Poder Judicial said. The cases show the uneven treatment of prostitution and pimping in Costa Rica. The arrests usually are made at the low-budget operations. When upscale massage parlors and similar are raided the case generally dissolves into a dispute over a business license. Infrequently do investigators find an underage prostitute during a raid. Adult prostitution is legal. But pimping is not. The Poder Judicial said that 19 witnesses have been called to testify at the Araya trial. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The security ministry said that its officers have destroyed more than half a million marijuana plants in 32 areas in a region the size of the canton of Alajuela. The 10-day effort that ended Friday was in the Talamanca mountains, mainly Barbilla, Alto Cuen, Espavel, Conapre, Altamira, Río Congo, Telire and Alto Bley. The ministry said that marijuana farmers cut down primary forest to plant their crops. This is a continual effort by security ministry officers because the Talamanca mountains is a major source for marijuana that enters the local market. So far this year, officers have chopped out 1.5 million plants. The operation was by the Policía de Control de Drogas with support from the Unidad de Intervención Policial. The ministry said that the wet weather hampered the police work and made entry into some areas of the mountains dangerous. Offices had support from the ministry's Sección Aérea and its aircraft. |
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Contamination by dead cell telephones is a concern with the country's telecom agency. The Poder Judicial is reminding workers there that it has set up disposal bins where they can dump their old phones, chargers and associated devices. The first such disposal point was placed in one of the main judicial buildings last October. The concern is that the heavy metals used in the manufacture of the electronic devices will leach into the |
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phones are not handeled in a special way. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad has been contracting for two years with a firm, Global Electric Electronic Processing, that handles the surplus material in an environmentally friendly way. The Poder Judicial said that disposal points are now in operation at judicial offices in Guadalupe and Cartago and at 24 other sites in the country. There are smiler programs for recycling discarded batteries and electronic equipment. |
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Not everyone was on a pilgrimage Sunday as this promotional
show at Mall San Pedro demonstrates. Spectators lined the rail on all
floors of the mall.Cuba's parliament may make economic changes By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Cuba's parliament has opened a new session to discuss the nation's current economic situation and possible changes. Although he has made several public appearances in recent weeks, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was not at the meeting. His chair has been empty since he turned power over to his brother, Raúl, four years ago. Cuban legislators convene twice a year and usually do little more than approve small reforms and resolutions criticizing the United States. Economy minister Marino Murillo said the deputies will discuss changing Cuba's economic model, but that the changes should not be called "reforms." He cited the example of small barber shops that have been turned over to employees who can set their own prices while paying rent to the state. Murillo said these projects will be extended to other sectors of the economy. He did not elaborate. |
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