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Smoke pours from the customs
facility in Peñas Blancas at the Nicaragua border when a
fire destroyed most of the warehouse holding confiscated goods Sunday
morning.y Seguridad Pública photo Our readers' opinions
International aid boycottis only means available Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Walter Filia (Aug. 29) shouldn't confuse military coups with benefits to the poor. Almost every country in Latin America has suffered from the devastating effects of these attacks on democracy, with the poor always bearing the brunt of the brutality and impoverishment. The case of Honduras fits the well-established pattern with the wealthy feeling their privileges threatened and getting their friends in the military to do the dirty work. And while international boycotts may be a blunt instrument, they are the only non-military means of persuasion available for a return to democracy. And as for the chances of this denied foreign aid being effective anyway, military dictatorships are well known experts at siphoning off and stealing such help meant for the country at large. To top things off, the upcoming November election will be conducted under the control of the the same people who kidnapped and expelled their democratically elected president, so what are the chances it will be a fair election? Not too good, I would venture. History may be an illusion for some. but there is a reason Costa Rica does not have a military. We are seeing that right now in Honduras, in action, before our eyes. R.
Martin
Quepos/Toronto Judge undoes work of police Dear A.M. Costa Rica: RE: Nine of 10 drug gang suspects set free by judge. Incredible! The investigators and the police officers are once again devastated by yet another example of a bad and crooked judicial system. I would offer that someone should check this judge's bank account and the accounts of his family. Why not publish the judge's name and telephone number so he can get a taste of citizen anger? Ken
Beedle
Cartago Why did judge let them go? Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I am SPEECHLESS. After reading the story of the police spending the night hiding along the banks of a polluted stream so they could surprise gang members in the early morning. Agents wanted to conduct their raid that way because they were wary of the gang, which is known to be armed. How can Costa Rica not see this as MORONIC? Example after example after example. Garry
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A Fuerza Púbica officer died early Friday when he arrived to back up fellow policemen who were being targeted by
The officer who died, Luis Alfredo González Santana, 25, arrived to help with the crowd. He spotted one of the suspects running away and gave chase, said the ministry. After the pair entered a vacant lot, the police officer slipped and fell about 100 meters, some 328 feet, to his death. \The residents continued to throw stones and other items even as police and Cruz Roja rescue workers attended to the fallen officer, the ministry said. González, who joined the force in April 2004, becomes the fifth ministry law enforcement officer to die this year. Two |
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Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. Researchers were on the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition. They got the first detailed view of plastic debris floating in a remote ocean region. It wasn't a pretty sight. The Scripps research vessel New Horizon left its San Diego homeport Aug. 2, 2009, for the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, located some 1,000 miles off California's coast, and returned on Aug. 21. Scientists surveyed plastic distribution and abundance, taking samples for analysis in the lab and assessing the impacts of debris on marine life. Before this research, little was known about the size of the garbage patch and the threats it poses to marine life and the gyre's biological environment. A gyre is a vortex in the ocean caused by currents. Such areas accumulate garbage. The North Pacific Gyre is gigantic, stretching from offshore California almost to Asia. The expedition was led by a team of Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate students with support from University of California Ship Funds, the National Science Foundation and Project Kaisei. The expedition was an important education experience for the graduate students, and contributed to a better understanding of an important problem in the oceans, said Linda Goad, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences. "We hope that SEAPLEX will result in increased awareness of a growing issue," she said, using the acronym for the project. After traveling for six days aboard the research vessel, the researchers reached their first intensive sampling site Aug. 9. Team members began 24-hour sampling periods using a variety of tow nets to collect debris at several ocean depths. "We targeted the highest plastic-containing areas so we could begin to understand the scope of the problem," said Miriam Goldstein of Scripps Institution, chief scientist of the expedition. "We also studied everything from phytoplankton to zooplankton to small midwater fish." The scientists found that at numerous areas in the gyre, flecks of plastic were abundant and easily spotted against the deep blue seawater. Among the assortment of items retrieved were plastic bottles with a variety of biological inhabitants. The scientists also collected jellyfish called by-the-wind sailors (Velella velella). Aug. 11th, the researchers encountered a large net entwined with plastic and various marine organisms; they also recovered several plastic bottles covered with ocean animals, including large barnacles. The next day, Pete Davison, a Scripps graduate student studying mid-water fish, collected several species in the gyre, including the pearleye (Benthalbella dentata), a predatory fish with eyes that look upward so it can see prey swimming above, and lanternfish (Tarletonbeania crenularis), which migrate from as deep as 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) down to the ocean surface each day. By the end of the expedition, the researchers were |
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Plastic bottles, which may
release toxins into the ocean, make up a high percentage of Pacific
trash. Scripps Institution of Oceanography photo
Scripps researchers spotted a
large net tangled with plastic in the Pacific garbage patch.intrigued by the gyre, but had seen their fill of its trash. "Finding so much plastic there was shocking," said Goldstein. "How could there be this much plastic floating in a random patch of ocean--a thousand miles from land?" Although not mentioned by Scripps, another recent research report said that plastic in the ocean is far more dangerous than the possibility of mechanical harm to birds and other creatures. Japanese researchers duplicated ocean conditions in the laboratory and found that decaying plastic gives off certain dangerous toxins. |
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on cattle may help preserve Brazil's forests By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Major beef and leather producers in Brazil have agreed not to use cattle raised in recently deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, and Brazil loses an estimated three million hectares of forested land each year, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. That's more than any other country in the world. And cattle ranching and deforestation are intimately connected. The governor of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso has called on meat producers not to buy cattle raised on recently deforested lands in the Amazonian state. Now, two major beef producers in Brazil, Bertin and Marfrig, have announced they are joining the initiative. Shoe makers Nike and Timberland signed on earlier this month. The moves follow a report issued this June by the environmental group Greenpeace that traced leather products from major global brands back to the meat processors and ranchers in deforested areas of the Amazon. Greenpeace spokesman Daniel Kessler says the announcements will have a significant impact on protecting the rainforest. "Mato Grosso, just to give some perspective, is by far the largest producer of leather in all of Brazil," Kessler says, "and the fact that they're having this moratorium is extremely important. Using Bertin as an example, they're the second-largest beef exporter in Brazil. And they're supporting this moratorium. And they're doing the right thing." The third major meat packer in the Amazon region, JBS, has not announced its plans and did not return calls and e-mails for comment. The Brazilian government and independent third-party observers will enforce the moratorium using satellite photographs, aerial fly-overs, and site visits. The meat processors have agreed not to buy cattle from those responsible for newly deforested lands. Brazil is already using this system to monitor soybean production. The country is a major soy producer, and since 2006 a coalition representing soybean growers, processors, and civil society groups has been cooperating on a moratorium on soy from recently deforested Amazon land. Cassio Franco Moreira with the environmental group World Wildlife Fund is a member of that coalition. He says soy often follows cattle on recently deforested land. "You have a huge area of forest and then you deforest it and then you put cattle [on it] because you can take your product walking to the slaughterhouse," he says. "And soy you need roads, you need this kind of thing." So, he says, limiting cattle ranching in the Amazon is an important step. Greenpeace's Daniel Kessler says he's optimistic about the cattle moratorium. "The government in Brazil did a great job with soy, so we have full faith that they'll do a great job with leather," he says. The soy moratorium has just been extended for another year while all the groups involved work out a more permanent method to certify that soybeans do not come from deforested land. |
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Two more
candidates officially in presidential race By
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Two more persons have been put forth as presidential candidates. Delegates of the new Partido Alianza Patriótica chose Rolando Araya during a session in Zapote. The Partido Acción Cuidadana confirmed Ottón Solís. Araya, an international socialist, was the Partido Liberación Nacional candidate in 2002. He lost to Abel Pacheco of Unidad Cristiana. Depending on the outcome of a criminal bribery trial, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia may be the Unidad candidate in the Feb. 7 elections. The trial is coming to an end and a verdict is expected within the next three weeks. Prosecutors claim that Calderón raked off some $9 million for a $39.5 million loan from the Finnish government to purchase medical supplies for the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. Unidad has begun a television campaign proclaiming his innocence. A three-judge panel will have the initial say. Any verdict would have to be confirmed by the Sala III criminal supreme court. The front runner continues to be Laura Chinchilla of Liberación Nacional. She was a vice president under the current president, Óscar Arias Sánchez, and she is considered a continuation of his presidency. He is barred by the Constitution from seeking a consecutive term. Otto Guevara of the Movimiento Libertario also is a candidate. Araya still has to be approved by a larger assembly of the new political party, but that is also most certain to take place. The new party includes many who opposed the free trade treaty with the United States and the opening of the insurance and telecom market to private competition. Two held in credit card fraud By
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Agents detained two persons Friday and said that they will face allegations that they defrauded Credomatic, the credit card company. One of the suspects is a Credomatic employee. The Poder Judicial said that a credit card holder sought to surrender the card and that an individual who identified himself as a Credomatic employee picked up the card at the customer's home. But then the card was used in a casino and in downtown San José to purchase items. |
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