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Police report
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The major police deployment in San Carlos has resulted in six arrests for persons sought on warrants. The Fuerza Pública put more officers in the community and setup multiple checkpoints after the municipal council complained about crimes. Police said they confiscated three motorcycles, two vehicles and even three cows. The report Thursday also said that police turned up one illegal firearm, marijuana and a small amount of cocaine. Checkpoints were in Río Cuarto de Grecia, Alfaro Ruiz, Guatuso, Ciudad Quesada, the tourism center of La Fortuna, Florencia and San Carlos. Police said they checked nearly 1,000 persons. At a meeting Wednesday police officials promised a series of sweeps and even said that the security ministry's air wing, the Servicio de Vigilancia Aérea, would participate. San Ramón group helping students Special
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The Community Action Alliance in San Ramón is working with Escuela Jorge Washington to raise funds for students whose economic situation does not enable them to pay normal school fees. Many of the students come from single-parent homes with difficult financial conditions, the organization said. The school fees contribute to the school’s annual expenditures from administrative expenses to graduation costs. There are two fundraisers in the next three months. The first is a Desayuno Tipico on Sept. 14 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the school. The cost is 3,000 colons per person, a bit less than $6. This is the first time that the school has done a fundraising breakfast. The Community Action Alliance is supporting the event by promoting ticket sales to its members. They can be reserved by email here: nancy@actionalliancecr.com. For questions about the event, the public can contact Marielos Montero at 8309-5370 or 8817-1875 at Jorge Washington. The second and larger fundraising event is scheduled for mid-November and will mark the 75th Anniversary of the school. The Community Action Alliance is co-sponsoring this family event with Jorge Washington, and will be participating in the planning, food preparation, overall promotion, and ticket sales. Funds raised at this event will benefit the school’s 5th graders, and the basketball association’s new court project. The fundraiser details will be announced at the end of September. Community Action Alliance said it is a group of San Ramón area expats and locals volunteering together for community enrichment. Internet crooks still have their tricks By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The security ministry has issued another warning because crooks still are stealing items that persons advertise on the Internet. A summary said that the items taken include motorcycles and electronic articles. The crooks use various tricks to get the items away from the owner. In some cases, the crook will show up and ask to make a test ride with the motorcycle that is for sale. He never returns. In one unusual case, police officers determined that a motorcycle the crook took had been stolen from someone else in the same manner. To steal a computer or a television set, the crook arranges a meeting in some public place. The crook fails to show up on time and asks that the item be left at a nearby store. The store clerks usually are innocent parties who let an accomplice take the item when the owner is distracted. In some cases, legitimate messengers are employed to pick up and deliver items to the crooks. Police issued warnings to messengers earlier this year. Those who are victimized usually are those advertising on social networks or in online classifieds. Investigations have shown that the person managing the crimes can be a prisoner in one of the country's penitentiaries.
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Despite its claim to be the happiest country, Costa Rica is around average in the rate of suicides, according to a comprehensive report issued this week by the World Health Organization. In 2012 there were 331 listed suicides in Costa Rica with most of the deaths, some 278, being men. The rate per thousand was 6.9 and there was a 3.7 percent reduction from 2000 to 2012, according to the country's records published in the U.N. agency's first global report on suicide prevention. Male suicides were down 7.9 percent while those by females were up 24.6 percent. Nicaragua had 9.1 suicides per 100,000 in the same year with a total of 547. Panamá was lower at 4.5 suicides per 100,000 of population with 160 suicides. Honduras had a suicide rate of 4.9 per 100,000 of population with 386 suicides. El Salvador appeared to have the highest rate in Central America with 12.8 suicides per 100,000 of population. There were 906 suicides there in 2012, the report said. Guatemala has a 7.3 per 100,000 rate of suicides with 1,101 deaths Elsewhere, Cuba had a 14.6 rate of suicides per 100,000 with 1,648. In the Americas, the average estimated suicide rate is 7.3 per 100,000 inhabitants, which is lower than in other World Health regions and lower than the global average of 11.4 per 100,000, said the report. However, Guyana has the highest estimated suicide rate for 2012 in the world, and Suriname has the sixth-highest. Data from the Americas show that suicide rates first peak among young people, remain at the same level for other age groups, and rise again among older men. In general, more men die by suicide than women. In countries of the Americas, rates range two to six times higher for men than for women. More than 800,000 people around the world die from suicide every year, according to the report. Some 75 percent of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries. “Unfortunately, suicide all too often fails to be prioritized as a major public health problem,” said World Health Director-General Margaret Chan. “Despite an increase in research and knowledge about suicide and its prevention, the taboo and stigma surrounding |
suicide persist, and often people do not seek help or are left alone. And if they do seek help, many health systems and services fail to provide timely and effective help.” Suicide occurs all over the world and can take place at almost any age, the report said. Globally, rates of suicide are highest in people aged 70 years and over. In some individual countries, however, the highest rates are found among the young. Notably, suicide is the second-leading cause of death in 15- to 29-year-olds globally. Pesticide poisoning is one of the most common methods of suicide, especially in low- and middle-income countries, and accounts for one-third of cases globally, the report said. The relatively high proportion of suicides by firearms in high-income countries is primarily driven by high-income countries in the Americas, where firearms account for 46 percent of all suicides, the report said. In high-income countries outside the Americas, firearms account for only 4.5 percent of suicides. Evidence shows that limiting access to the means of suicide can help prevent such deaths, as can a commitment by national governments to the establishment and implementation of coordinated plans of action, said the agency. The world suicide report seeks to make suicide a priority on the global public health agenda, said the agency. The report’s launch comes just a week before World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on Sept. 10 each year to provide an opportunity for joint action to raise awareness about suicide and its prevention around the world, said the agency. The report in English is HERE! |
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Bootlegged alcohol always is dangerous, but the still police knocked over Thursday night was downright unhealthy. Even the Fuerza Pública officers said so. The still was in a mountainous area of Valverde Vega in Alajuela province. Police said the owner of the property did not know of the operation. No one was there when police arrived. They said they received a tip. They said they found large containers for fermentation and other devices used in making alcohol. All were in deplorable condition. The scene was something like rural stills during the era of U.S. Prohibition. Police torched much of the combustibles. At the very least bootlegged alcohol can cause blindness. There have been several cases in Central America in the last few years where dozens of persons died. By contrast, police and tax agents sometimes raid sophisticated bootlegging operations, usually in the cities. One setup in Tibás was duplicating the container and label of a popular brand of guaro. |
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A new report from the United Nations children’s agency says violence against children is widespread across the globe. Among the disturbing findings, some 95,000 minors were murdered in 2012, and 120 million girls have experienced sexual violence. "Just because we do not always see violence against children does not mean it does not exist." This is the message of a new report by the United Nations Children's Fund called “Hidden in Plain Sight,” which analyzes violence against children in 190 countries. The agency's deputy executive director, Geeta Rao Gupta, said Thursday that violence plagues children around the world, regardless of their economic and social circumstances, culture, religion or ethnicity. “It takes many forms: physical, sexual, emotional. It occurs in places where children should be safe: their homes, schools and communities. Increasingly, it happens over the Internet. And it is perpetrated by family members and teachers, neighbors and strangers, and other children," said Ms. Gupta. Violence often starts in the home. Researchers found that nearly one billion children worldwide are subjected to physical punishment by |
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caregivers on a regular basis. Children also experience violence at school, with one in three adolescents saying they were routinely bullied. And, according to the U.N. researchers, 120 million girls under age 20 have been subjected to forced sexual intercourse or other sexual acts. Such abuse becomes normal and pervades attitudes, with the study finding that half of all teenage girls worldwide believe that a husband is sometimes justified in hitting or beating his wife. Report author Claudia Cappa said that even if one child is harmed through an act of violence, it is one child too many. “Violence against children does not only inflict pain and humiliation, it kills children. In 2012 alone, approximately 95,000 children and adolescents under age 20 were killed by homicides," said Ms. Cappa. The report’s authors said efforts need to be made to change social attitudes about hitting children, and positive discipline methods need to be taught to lower the risk of violence in the home. Services also need to be provided for children who have experienced psychological or physical abuse, and laws and policies that are meant to protect children must be enforced and implemented. |
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Obama is urged to take action to fix U.S. immigration mess By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez and several U.S. religious leaders are calling on President Barack Obama to take executive actions soon to fix the U.S. immigration system, after Congress failed to pass comprehensive reform legislation. Other Democratic lawmakers in tough re-election races, however, have asked the president to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November midterm elections, frustrating immigrants' rights activists. Obama and some of his senior advisers are now said to be engaged in an internal debate about when to move on executive action on deportations and how to deal with the influx of children from Central America at the U.S. southern border. The president had said in June that he would announce executive actions by the end of the summer, but now the White House says the decision could come later. One of the leading advocates for immigrants' rights in Congress, Gutierrez, is calling on Obama to stand up for what he believes in. "Because it is better the president make the decision now, clearly before the American public, in a transparent manner, before the election," he said. Gutierrez called on Democrats who are reportedly asking for a delay to not block action on the issue, saying Democrats cannot stand with immigrants only when it is politically expedient. Clarissa Martinez de Castro of the National Council of La Raza agrees. "We are deeply disappointed to hear that some may be advocating for a delay in the president moving forward with his long-awaited announcement on executive action on immigration," she said. The U.S. Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform legislation more than a year ago, but the House of Representatives failed to hold a vote on broad reforms. In July, the House instead passed a bill that focused on boosting border security. A group of religious leaders has written the president to ask him to ensure that the rights of children are not lost in the broad political debate on immigration. One of them, Sister Simone Campbell of the Catholic group Network, has been working to help unaccompanied children at the border. She said she is disappointed in the House vote. "They took the approach of rolling back protections for those who are the most vulnerable. That is not who we are as a nation," Campbell said. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, a Republican, said a 2008 law to protect children from human trafficking needs to be revised, because the measure is motivating Central American children to risk their lives to come to the United States. "The problem is a refugee problem down at the border right now. And the president, a couple of weeks ago told us that he would support changing that 2008 law, and now they are against it, so he changed his mind," he said. Experts say it is unclear exactly what type of reforms the president may enact, ranging from increasing the number of green cards offered, which allow foreigners to live and work in the United States, to deferring deportations for undocumented immigrants. Any executive actions the president takes could be reversed by Congress. Pharmacist for drug firm held in case of tainted shots By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. officials have arrested a senior pharmacist of the company linked to a 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis that was blamed for 64 deaths. Officials say Glenn Adam Chin, a former supervisory pharmacist at a Boston-area facility, did not properly sterilize or test equipment, and concealed the unsafe practices. Chin has been charged with mail fraud in connection with shipping 17,000 tainted vials that were sent to more than 76 facilities in 23 U.S. states. About 750 people in 20 states contracted infections after receiving injections of preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, produced by Chin's employer. It was the worst meningitis outbreak in U.S. history. Chin was arrested Thursday at Boston's international airport. Authorities say the criminal investigation of Chin and others associated with the outbreak is ongoing, but federal prosecutors decided to charge and arrest Chin after learning he was planning to leave the country. Chin's defense attorney said he had no intention of fleeing the country and was merely traveling to Hong Kong with his family to attend a wedding.  Drexel University graphic
Giant dino looked something
like this.Big dino
was still youngster
even though big as a house By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
About 77 million years after being buried in a flash flood, one of the most massive creatures ever to walk the earth has been recovered and described by scientists from Philadelphia's Drexel University. Kenneth Lacovara, who led the team, estimates the 26-meter-long Dreadnoughtus schrani weighed more than 59,000 kilograms when alive, and was not yet full grown. Its fossilized remains, excavated in southern Argentina between 2005 and 2009, include more than 70 percent of the bones, more than any other skeleton of the huge plant-eaters. That gives researchers a rare opportunity to study the anatomy, growth rate, and biomechanics of this dinosaur species, known as titanosaurs. Lacovara says he imagines the dinosaur spent most of its day eating, in order to take in all the calories it needed. Lacovara notes that with a body as large as a house, weighing as much as a herd of elephants and swinging a weaponized tail, Dreadnoughtus would not have feared any other creature, so he named it after the battleships of a century ago, which were huge, iron-clad and virtually impervious. Virginia ex-governor, wife found guilty of corruption By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A former U.S. governor and his wife are facing decades in prison after a jury ruled Thursday that they took bribes from a businessman. Virginia's ex-governor Bob McDonnell was convicted of 11 corruption charges after accepting loans, luxury clothes, and trips in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement company. His wife was found guilty of nine similar counts. Once a rising star in the Republican party, McDonnell was governor of the southern U.S. state from 2010 until his indictment in January. The 60-year-old and his wife, Maureen, accepted $177,000 from vitamin executive Jonnie Williams. Those gifts included an $11,000 dress purchase at Oscar de la Renta and nearly $6,000 at Louis Vuitton. Williams also gave the politician an engraved Rolex with the words "71st governor of Virginia." McDonnell paid back part of the sum. But that did not stop prosecutors from pursuing charges. The couple will be sentenced in January They each face up to 30 years in prison on most of the counts. Nevada lures battery firm with years of tax incentives By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Electric car company Tesla will build a $5 billion battery factory in Nevada after accepting a hefty incentives package from the U.S. state. Nevada beat out Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas for the Tesla plant by offering $1 billion to the company over the next 20 years, mainly in the form of tax breaks. In exchange, Tesla is projected to create more than 22,000 jobs, including 6,500 permanent positions at the so-called gigafactory. It is also expected to bring in $100 billion to the state's economy in the coming decade. The battery plant is a joint venture between Japanese electronics giant Panasonic and the California-based Tesla. The pair are looking to build a new generation of electric vehicles at a lower price by 2017 using batteries produced at the Nevada facility. Fast-food workers protest and seek higher salaries By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Thousands of protesters gathered at fast food restaurants around the United States Thursday to demand a higher minimum wage for American workers. In the absence of action by Congress, the debate over raising the minimum wage is taking place city by city and state by state. Thursday's protests by fast food workers in major American cities, like the one in Atlanta, were billed as the largest yet. They are part of an ongoing effort to raise the pay of those who work in restaurants and other small businesses. This past Monday, which was celebrated as Labor Day in the United States, President Barack Obama added his voice to the chorus. “All across the country right now, there is a national movement going on made up of fast food workers organizing to lift wages so they can provide for their families with pride and dignity," he said. "There is no denying a simple truth: America deserves a raise." The national minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. But the minimum wage is higher in some cities and states, such as California, where workers earn at least $9 an hour. The city of Seattle has the highest minimum, at $15 an hour, which the protesters want to peg as a national rate. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wants to raise his city's lowest wage to $13.25 an hour within three years. He also spoke to workers on Labor Day. “It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages," said Garcetti. "So today we agree it is time to 'raise the wage L.A.'” U.S. Small Business Administration chief Maria Contreras-Sweet says there is opposition in Congress to any raise. She spoke Wednesday after addressing the civic group Town Hall Los Angeles. “The president announced a 10-10, meaning $10.10 minimum wage, but we understand that throughout the country, there are different economic situations and standards," she said. "And because Congress is not acting, so many mayors and states are taking their own action." Many small business owners are on the other side of the issue. Freeman Ho owns an auto repair shop near Los Angeles and has mixed feelings about raising the pay of his workers. “If the labor rate, labor charge is up, we have to multiply more charging to the customer," he said. But Ho says workers need more than the current minimum to support their families. “So at least buying food or the other things, it will give them more chances, I mean purchase power," he said. Many Americans work long hours for little pay, says Rusty Hicks of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. “And if you work full time, you work 40 hours a week, you should be able to support yourself, support your family, and contribute to your community," he said. Business groups and many Republicans in Congress say raising the minimum wage will force employers to reduce their work force and hurt those at the bottom of the pay scale. Supporters of pay hikes counter that a rise in the minimum wage will boost the U.S. economy and give needed help to the nation's most vulnerable workers. U.S. jobless applicants rise as exports improve slightly By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
United States companies hired fewer workers than expected during the month of August, and July's U.S. trade deficit fell to its lowest level since January, reflecting a greater demand for U.S. exports. The Labor Department says applications for jobless benefits rose to 302,000 last week, an increase of 4,000 from the previous week. But the number of those receiving unemployment aid last week was the lowest since June 2007. The data was released ahead of the government's official report which comes out today. Meanwhile, the Commerce Department reported the U.S. trade deficit fell 0.6 percent in July to $40.5 billion. Exports of automobiles, parts, engines and industrial supplies increased 0.9 percent to $198 billion. Imports also rose 0.7 percent to $238.6 billion with added shipments of industrial supplies, cars and food. Additionally, the Commerce Department report showed the trade deficit with China rose 2.7 percent to a $30.9 billion, which is a record monthly high. |
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Ecuador's media attacks condemned
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The Human Rights Foundation said Thursday that it condemns the systematic attacks on press freedom and the climate of self-censorship in which independent media operates as a result of government actions in Ecuador. The Organic Law of Communications, enacted in June 2013, restricts the type of information that can be broadcast and published by the media, the organization said. The enactment of the law combined with the introduction of government institutions with the legal authority to monitor, intervene, control, and impose penalties on media has led to more than 100 legal proceedings against journalists, the shutdown of the print edition of at least four newspapers, and a looming threat to other media outlets that they must follow the rules or close their doors, it said. With the approval of the law, President Rafael Correa has intensified his campaign to put an end to independent journalism in Ecuador and eliminate any trace of critical public opinion that contradicts the government’s propaganda machine, composed of state-owned media outlets, said Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation. “In addition to using all three powers of the state to persecute anyone who counters his government’s media hegemony, President Correa threatens and insults journalists in Ecuador and abroad through smear campaigns shown on mandatory national broadcasts and his weekly TV show,” added Halvorssen. The communicaton law gives the government broad powers to regulate both the content as well as the quality of what can or cannot be reported by the media. Specifically, the law prohibits prior censorship, but rather than define censorship as state action to censure the independent press, the law classifies it as the independent media’s ability to choose the subjects they cover. For example, the law forces the press to cover and disseminate events of public interest and considers an act of preliminary censorship to be any deliberate and recurrent omission of the dissemination of issues of public interest. In the application of these provisions, more than 100 administrative processes against various media outlets have been filed with the information and communication superintendence, which began operations in October 2013. The newspaper El Universo is among the media outlets penalized under the new law. The paper was fined $90,000 earlier this year for publishing a satirical cartoon. Amnesty says México's cops torture By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International says reports of torture and abuse by Mexican security forces have skyrocketed 600 percent in the last decade. A new study released Thursday also alleges the government is complicit in the abuse. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission received 7,000 complaints from 2010 to 2013. Of those, the federal attorney general's office found evidence in 26. There have been only seven federal convictions for torture in Mexico's federal courts. An Amnesty International researcher said the increase in allegations against police and government forces overlaps with the state's response to the so-called war on drugs. Amnesty officials fear the abuses by security forces have been normalized as the government struggles to quell the turf wars between the drug cartels that have left a bloody trail across the country. |
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The European Central Bank has cut its benchmark interest rate in a new effort to boost the eurozone's lagging economy. ECB President Mario Draghi announced Thursday the rate would drop to 0.05 percent from a previous record low of 0.15 percent and that the bank will begin purchases of private financial assets. Many analysts viewed it as an indication that officials have grown increasingly concerned that the recent period of very low inflation could persist longer than first thought and may threaten the economic recovery of the 18-nation eurozone. The region's economy was flat in the April to June period. According to Draghi, the ECB will begin purchasing asset-backed securities and bonds in October. Many stock exchanges around the world rallied on the news of the rate cut. Following the announcement, the euro fell to $1.2995. This is the first time it has fallen below $1.30 since July of 2013. |
