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Friday, U.S. Embassy reports By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday that the USS Iwo Jima will dock in Limón Friday to begin its humanitarian mission here. A.M. Costa Rica reported on the ship's schedule last month. The ship and its crew of sailors and civilan health and construction experts visited Haiti and most recently Colombia. The embassy said that the dental and medical and veterinarian services will be free and that the ship's company will play baseball with Limón residents. The ship's plans were announced amid a political flap over allowing U.S. ships on drug patrol to dock for shore leave and resupply. Eventually lawmakers had to pass a special approval for the arrival of the Iwo Jima because it is not involved in anti-drug efforts. The ship's civic and humanitarian mission is called Continuing Promise 2010. The U.S. Southern Command said that the 257-meter (843-foot) amphibious assault ship has been refitted with special medical equipment. The boat, its crew and non-profit organization staffers will spend from 10 days to two weeks providing humanitarian assistance to residents of the southern Caribbean coast, the Southern Command said. Some 1,600 persons will be on the Iwo Jima, the Southern Command said. The Iwo Jima left Norfolk, Virginia, July 12 to begin its four-month goodwill mission. In addition to Costa Rica, Haiti and Colombia, the ship will stop at Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá and Suriname. The crew of the Iwo Jima is joined by medical, dental and engineering professionals from Canada, Chile, Germany, the Netherlands and Paraguay, the Southern Command said. Supplies have been donated by some 30 non-profit organizations. Large amphibious ships, like Iwo Jima, resemble small aircraft carriers and include the ability to rapidly move personnel and cargo by helicopter and landing craft, making it an ideal platform to support humanitarian relief missions on short notice, the Southern Command explained. University march for money
came off as scheduled By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A crowd of students and university employees, estimated varyingly at 10,000 to 12,000 individuals, marched to Casa Presidencial Tuesday, as they said they would. However, there were no concrete developments in the university rectors' campaign for a bigger budget. Casa Presidencial said that the four university rectors twice declined invitations to meet with central government officials. A spokesperson for President Laura Chinchilla said that she again had invited them to meet today at 11:30 a.m. The march caused extensive traffic jams on principal routes. The central government has offered to increase university funding by 4.5 percent every year, plus inflation, until 2015. University officials said they want much more. The budget money goes into a special fund, the Fondo Especial para la Educación Superior, and then is disbursed to individual schools. At the legislature, every political party except Ms. Chinchilla's Liberación Nacional asked that she negotiate with the rectors. A lot of the participants in the march incorrectly claimed that the government was cutting the budget. In fact, several carried a coffin labeled "La U," predicting the demise of the Universidad de Costa Rica. Escazú murdered pair identified by investigators By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Judicial Investigating Organization has identified the two men found stabbed to death in a car at a luxury Escazú condo Monday morning. Carlos Luis Salas Fernández was 35, and he was found in the rear seat of the vehicle. A 23-year-old man, Ezry Cambronero Ureña, was found in the trunk. Agents think the men were murdered in the condo with a short samurai -type sword. Salas was a businessman and wine merchant. He was living in the condo. The Cerro Alto condos in Guachipelín are in a gated community with 24-hour guards. Investigators said that the murders happened between midnight and 6 a.m. Monday morning. They suspect robbery was a partial motive because some of the possessions from the Salas condo were found in his vehicle. They think that the killer was going to drive away with the vehicle, dump the bodies and keep the items, including a laptop. Or perhaps the killer was trying to make the crime seem like a robbery. That idea failed when the car security alarm went off attracting a guard. The killer or killers fled.
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| Bus swerves and kills mother and child along autopista |
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An Alajuela-bound bus swerved out of control off the Autopista General Cañas Tuesday, killed a mother and child on the road shoulder and then plunged down a wooded bank into the Río Torres. The crash seems to have been the result of a truck braking suddenly ahead of the bus. The bus was of the company TUASA, which are the red units that carry passengers on that route. Some 60 persons were on the bus at midday, and at least 30 of them required medical care. Several are in critical condition. Officials immediately closed the westbound lanes of the key highway, and monumental traffic jams resulted. The road was reopened by 6 p.m. Some 80 Cruz Roja rescue workers responded as did 30 police officers. Injured passengers had to be brought on stretchers up the steep river bank. The front part of the bus was only in about two feet of water, so passengers were not thrown in the river. |
The bus driver was identified as
Jiaro Rodríguez. He was hospitalized
but able to talk with investigators at the scene as he was carried to
one of the many ambulances. He said the bus went out of control. He has
worked for the company about five years. The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes said that he was current with his license and that the 2003 bus had been inspected, rejected and then passed on its second try. Such vehicles are inspected every six months. Attention was being paid to the condition of the tires on the vehicle. The road was wet at the time of the crash. The woman and child were on foot walking to complete an errand. The woman was 25 and the child 1. They had no chance as the bus crashed through the metal guardrail. The scene was less than a mile from the northwest corner of Parque La Sabana. César Quirós, director of Tránsito, said that judicial officials at the scene requested additional time to handle the investigation of the deaths, so the route was not reopened until about 6 p.m. |
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The nation's health officials will kick off another push against dengue a week from Friday in Parque Nacional in San José. One of the principal agencies involved in the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, which runs the hospitals and clinics. The agency said that 16,256 person had been treated for the disease as of last week. The principal weapons against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the disease are sprays and elimination of the insect's breeding spots. The Caja said that eliminating the breeding spots is best done by informing the public. There have been several calls |
to citizens to eradicate the
breeding spots, usually old tires or other
objects that hold water. The Caja persuaders were in San Carlos at the
hospital there last week attempting to instruct school children and
others to create a consolidated front against the mosquito, it said. Similar awareness sessions were held in the other 36 areas into which the country is divided for health purposes by the Caja. "Clean it, cover it, overturn it, perforate it, fill it, eliminate it or recycle it" is the motto of the health programs. In Spanish that is limpiar, tapar, volcar, agujerear, rellenar, eliminar o reciclar. Dengue takes a big bite out of the Caja's budget, and it also has an impact on the country's workforce. |
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| Banco Nacional will buy 11,000 new
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Hypercom Corp. said Tuesday that Banco Nacional de Costa Rica with more than 165 branch offices across the country, has selected and will deploy more than 13,000 Hypercom
"Hypercom's state-of-the-art and much in-demand products address the specific needs of our customers and will help us improve substantially the merchant and consumer experience at the point of transaction," said Jorge Bonilla Lorenzo, Director de Banca de Medios Electrónicos de Pago at Banco Nacional. "BNCR is one of the electronic payment leaders in Costa Rica, and their selection of Optimum is a major endorsement that recognizes the product's competitive advantages and strengthens our footprint in Central America," said Samia Bounaira, managing director, Mexico, Caribbean and Central America for Hypercom Corp. Hypercom's high security Optimum T4200 and M4200 |
product family for
North America consists of six powerful 32-bit multi-application devices
that share the same platform, user interface, and software toolkit to
maximize efficiency, application portability, and offer customers a
broad range of options to serve any market need, the company said. The
high security battery powered M4100 Blade weighs in at 7.1 ounces;
measures 4.9 inches long, 2.7 inches wide, and 1.15 inches deep;
features GPRS and Wi-Fi communications, high-contrast full-color
signature capture touch screen; and provides other state-of-the-art
features for restaurants, delivery services and other businesses
worldwide. Over the last several decades, consumers worldwide have increasingly turned to card-based payment methods, such as credit, debit and gift cards, to replace checks and cash, said Hypercom, whch is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.. Card-based payments require the use of a point-of-transaction terminal capable of reading the cardholder’s account information from the card’s magnetic stripe or chip, and combining this information with the amount of the sale, it noted. The payment terminal electronically captures and securely transmits this transaction information over a communications network to an authorized computer data center and then displays the returned approval or denial. Payment systems require an extremely high level of reliability and security, as even an apparently small system failure or security breach can have extremely serious consequences, the company said. The electronic payment industry operates in a sophisticated environment of dedicated systems, applications, specialized products and access networks, it noted. |
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Already this year 277 persons have been hospitalized for gunshot wounds, according to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. Not all of them were the victims of crimes or shootouts, the Caja noted as it issued a call to parents to keep weapons away from children. Marco Díaz Alvarado, of the Programa Integral del Adolescente at the Caja said that he realizes that there are conditions of insecurity around the country and that this motivated citizens to arm themselves. But he noted that frequently the victim is a member of the family. |
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the health agency said they were concerned by the
increase in shooting cases. Of course, the statistics do not include
the many persons who died at the scene from gunshots. However, there have been several well publicized cases of children shooting themselves while playing with weapons in the home. There also are two policemen who died in separate incidents from gunshots from their service weapons. Both cases happened in police stations, although one case was called a suicide. Diaz also said that parents should help children learn non-violent ways to settle disputes. |
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loosening ban on Cuba By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. officials say the Obama administration is considering easing some travel restrictions to Cuba. Administration and congressional officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the goal is to make it easier for researchers, educators and students to travel to the Communist-led island. Details of the proposed policy shift were first reported by The New York Times. The White House and State Department declined to comment Tuesday. President Barack Obama has said he wants improved relations with Cuba. Last year, his administration eased travel and money-transfer restrictions on Cuban-Americans with relatives on the island. A decades-old U.S. embargo on Cuba remains in effect. Obama has said the embargo will stay in place until Havana takes steps toward democratic reforms. U.S. Sen. Robert Menéndez, a Cuban-American from New Jersey, opposes any policy changes. He says loosening restrictions would reward a government that has shown little interest in reform. In a recent statement, Menéndez said this is not the time to ease pressure on the Castro government. He said that promoting travel and wide-spread remittances will give the government a much-needed infusion of dollars that will only allow the Castro brothers to extend what he called their reign of oppression and human rights violations. A U.S. congressional panel voted in June to lift the decades-old ban on American travel to Cuba, to make it easier to sell U.S. agricultural exports there. Similar measures have failed in Congress in recent years as opponents have argued that lifting the ban could prop up Cuba's government. Another three dissidents arrive in Spain from Cuba By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Another three Cuban dissidents are free, the result of a landmark deal brokered with Cuba by Spain and the Roman Catholic Church last month. The three dissidents arrived in the Spanish capital, Madrid, Tuesday, accompanied by 15 family members. Spanish officials say three more dissidents are expected to arrive in the coming days, bringing the total number released under the deal to 26. Cuba has agreed to free 52 of the 75 prisoners sentenced to lengthy prison terms following a government crackdown on the opposition in 2003. Last month, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos predicted that Cuba would improve its relations with the European Union and the United States if it freed all political prisoners. |
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