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The time has come for Solís to actDear A.M. Costa Rica: I read your article about 'some modest proposals for cutting the budget'' in your Oct. 1 edition and felt invited to come up with ideas how to solve the national problem. Ás a retired economist from the Netherlands, I followed the political and economic issues in this country with above average interest for approximately 20 years now. I fully agree with your statement that ''the political establishment (and in its slipstream the entire pubic sector) has enriched themselves for so long at the expense of the private sector that you can hardly expect them to reform.'' The country has reached or may already be over the acceptable limits in charging the private sector for financing the overprivileged public sector. With the uncontrolled growth in budget deficits and pubic spendings, this country has many things in common with Greece some year before the collapse. Greece was saved by the European currency member states, but Costa Rica is certainly not ''too important to fall'' and has to find the solution in itself. Crucial is that Costa Rica pretends to allow itself European social benefits for their workers (pensions, the Caja, labor laws) but apparently using U.S. tax rates to finance. European countries can only finance their social security system with tax rates higher than 50 percent for the middle and higher income groups, and pensioners have to pay a full contribution to the medicare, as everybody does. The highest income tax rate in Costa Rica is, as far as I know, 25 percent, and all pensioners are exempted to pay for their medicare. In Europe the retirement age is going up towards the age of 70 in order to keep the system financial stable. In Costa Rica however it is a national sport to retire between 50 and 60 years old (keeping the full salary as their pension), specially for the higher (public) income group. It is obvious that this country can only survive by breaking down the many privileges especially those of the public sector and also by higher taxes for higher incomes (mainly in the public sector). Because of its leveling effect, it will keep the private sector motivated to contribute as well. It is very disappointing to hear that the new president comes up with old ideas to charge other and new taxpayers for the public spendings. It won't help if you don't level out the privileges and eliminate the corruption. Voters might easily become misled by politicians, but taxpayers won't. Voters might go into the streets and stamp with their feet, but taxpayers don't. They just reduce their contributions if they feel insulted by politicians. And this is precisely the situation where Costa Rica stands today. If no drastic steps are taken, the system will collapse. And that will mean that many public institutions and workers will be closed and laid off, pensions will be cut, and inflation might rise when government might seize the instrument of monetary funding. In a certain way, this will also lead to an elimination of privileges as well, but the process will be fully out of control with many unexpected and unwanted side effects. Earlier this year Costa Rican voters choose for a drastic change, and it is now up to the president to perform. Let's hope that he proves to be as wise as he pretends to be. Chris
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Curridabat By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has placed first in Sunday's presidential election but failed to win the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff later this month. With nearly all of the ballots counted, Ms. Rousseff garnered a little more than 40 percent of the vote, while pro-business Social Democrat Aecio Neves took around 34 percent. A runoff is scheduled for Oct. 26. President Rousseff had the support of Brazil's working class, thanks to generous social welfare programs initiated during the two terms of her hugely popular predecessor and political godfather, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva. Former environment minister Marina Silva, who in late August held a commanding lead in polls, failed to translate that into actual votes. Voting is compulsory in Brazil, with everyone between the ages of 18 and 70 required to cast a ballot.
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A crowd estimated by police to be more than 100,000 turned out early Sunday to support the Fundación Anna Ross and its fight against cancer. Many participants were cancer survivors or were members of a family who had lost a close relative to the disease. Anna Ross was a well-known physician and political figure who died in 2003 after a long fight with cancer. Her family created the foundation as her legacy to provide psychosocial support to cancer patients and their families. The foundation also provides nutritional support, training, wheelchairs, wigs and turbans Most who have been supporting by the foundation are patients of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer. Such diseases combined are the second leading cause of death in Costa Rica. Sunday was the 11th event that was a two kilometer walk, a 5K run or a more challenging 10K run. The routes ended at Parque la Sabana. Participants were accompanied by bands, including musicians from the Colegio Tecnico de Puriscal. |
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suspect after Cahuita bus stickup By
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Three men stuck up a public bus near Cahuita on the southern Caribbean coast Sunday, and police caught a suspect who was leaving the area on a motorcycle. No one was reported injured in the stick-up, but passengers were stripped of their possessions. The Fuerza Pública said that the suspect carried a bag that appeared to contain items taken from the bus passengers. He was identified by the last name of Obando, and officers said that he had a police record. Police were seeking to find the other two robbers, they said. The Fuerza Pública attributed the quick arrest to the way they maintain police and vehicles at strategic points of the main highway. |
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President Luis Guillermo Solís will met another U.S. Marine today, the second in less than a month. Last Sept. 10, the visitor was Marine Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command. Today's visitor is John D. Feeley, who is the principal deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Bureau of Western Hemisphere affairs. Feeley is a former U.S. Marine helicopter pilot, according to his biography with the State Department. Felley moved into his current job in May 2012 and assumed responsibility for the daily management of regional policy implementation and the supervision of 50 diplomatic posts in the Americas, said the State Department. Earlier, while based in México, |
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Initiative, the department said.. Among other issues, U.S. officials think that Solís may begin to demonstrate softness on drug trafficking, in part because fighting drugs is so expensive. Traffickers, who have been using aircraft, now seem to have an advantage. There also is the continuing problem of U.S. investors being blindsided by unexpected government reversals. Although few Costa Ricans are part of the unprecedented youthful immigration from Central America to the United States, that issue is sure to come up. Illegal immigration from Costa Rica to the United States is mainly by adults seeking work. |
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| Pope convenes bishops to study family teachings By
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Pope Francis has launched a major review of Catholic teaching on the family. The so-called extraordinary synod of bishops opened Sunday at the Vatican. The two-week meeting could lead to change in the Roman Catholic Church's attitude to marriage, cohabitation, divorce, contraception and other family and social issues. Nearly 200 bishops and lay people from around the world will examine the gulf between what the church currently says on these issues and what many believers actually do. Before Pope Francis opened the meeting, he Tweeted "let us ask the Lord to show us the way forward." Last month at St. Peter's Basilica, Francis presided over a Mass wedding of 20 couples whose relationships would traditionally be considered sinful. The wedding included unmarried couples who had been living together and those who already had children. Kasparo characterized Putin as most dangerous threat By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Former world chess champion and pro-democracy activist Garry Kasparov grabbed headlines earlier this week when he described Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most dangerous man in the world. He made the remark during an interview with Yahoo News, adding that Putin is "a greater threat to the United States than the Islamic State." Later, Kasparov explained his characterizations during an interview. "It's a permanent threat," Kasparov said 'Cannot be defeated militarily' Unlike the current outbreak of ebola, Syria or even al-Qaida, Kasparov said, those crises can in the end be defeated, no matter how costly. "When you look at Putin, he cannot be defeated militarily. Russia is second nuclear power in the world," he said. "So that's why the moment that you recognize that Putin is a threat, you have to deal with a very different kind of dilemma because now you have to look for a very comprehensive solution that will engage Russia, potentially China, and that puts the problem to a very, very different level." To Kasparov, Putin is a dictator who is defiling the fundamental values of the free world. "The same way we call Saddam Hussein or General Pinochet or North Korean dictators, he is a dictator who has no way out," he said. "He must stay in power." The chess pro also had some tough words for the Obama administration's response to Putin's annexation of Crimea and the backing of separatists who are roiling eastern Ukraine. Both the United States and the European Union have steadily ratcheted up sanctions on Russia. "The policies imposed by the Western countries today, it's better than nothing," he said. "But it's still far from enough to prevent Putin from further aggression." To stop Putin or any other problematic leader, Kasparov said he believes the U.S. president must strike a delicate balance: pose a credible threat without using force. And he said the failure of both the Bush and Obama administrations to do that has created a dangerous vacuum by destroying the credibility of the Oval Office. "One wanted to use force all the time, the other one doesn't want to use force," Kasparov said. "Obama has been drawing red lines, one after another, and reneging on them. History shows that weakness eventually leads to a much bigger disaster." So how would he deal with Putin? Exploit what Putin believes is the Russian public's growing distaste for the war Ukraine, Kasparov said. And if the price of Crimea becomes too steep and begins to bite ordinary Russians, Kasparov believes Putin might face a very serious and new domestic challenge. "This challenge, as in the 1980's, cannot be cannot be successful without mounting pressure from the outside," he said. "If sanctions in this format can be sustained until March, that will be the most serious challenge to Vladimir Putin's power and maybe still will offer a glimpse of hope that the change in Russia will not be as bloody as before," Kasparov said. Mass grave in México may be of missing students By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Police in southern Mexico have found a mass grave in an area where more than 40 students are missing following a rash of violence last week. Authorities say they have so far discovered the charred bodies of about 20 people on the edge of Iguala, in the restive state of Guerrero, 200 kilometers south of Mexico City. Tomas Zeron, Mexican federal chief of investigations, said, "A group of investigators and federal public prosecutor specialized agents are on their way to the site. The Mexican state cannot permit such an indignant incident to go unpunished. We want to emphasize that we will put all the forces of the state to shed light on this unfortunate event. Thank you." Twenty-two police officers were arrested in Guerrero last week after a police confrontation in Iguala with student protesters. Mexico is under fierce international scrutiny for years of alleged human rights violations by security forces. Officials say the National Human Rights Commission has sent experts to the area to aid state authorities in identifying the remains. Duvalier ducks punishment by dying of a heart attack By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has died of a heart attack at the age of 63. Duvalier's lawyer says the former leader died at a private residence Saturday in the capital, Port-au-Prince. In 1971, Duvalier became one of the world's youngest leaders at the age of 19 following the death of his father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Francois Duvalier, a physician-turned-politician, had ruled Haiti since 1957. Like his father, the younger Duvalier ruled with an iron fist, enforcing power with the aid of the feared Tonton Macoutes militia, a secret police force blamed for hundreds of deaths and disappearances. Jean-Claude Duvalier, who called himself president for life was ousted in a popular uprising in 1986. He went into exile in France, where he lived until he made a surprise return to Haiti in early 2011. Shortly after returning to his homeland, he was charged with corruption, embezzlement and other abuses of power from his brutal, 15-year rule. Several Haitians filed lawsuits accusing him of human rights violations. Critics accused Duvalier and his family of living a lavish lifestyle while doing little to ease Haiti's poverty and illiteracy. He was also alleged to have stolen millions of dollars in public funds. After returning to Haiti, Duvalier said he felt profound sadness for Haitians who said they were victims of his 15-year rule. He also said he returned to show his solidarity at a difficult period for the country as it struggled to recover from a devastating earthquake in 2010. Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. In January 2012, a special adviser for Amnesty International said crimes against humanity committed while Duvalier was in power remained shrouded in total impunity. The adviser, Javier Zuniga, also said Haitian authorities had not made a serious effort to look into past events that afflicted a generation of Haitians with torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and other serious human rights violations. FBI check says China is top cyber war enemy By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. FBI chief James Comey says China is at the top of the list of countries waging cyber warfare against American industry, with damages measured in the billions of dollars per year. Comey told CBS television's "60 Minutes" Sunday that China’s efforts are extremely aggressive and widespread in stealing secrets benefitting its own business and industry. He said the annual losses to U.S. companies are impossible to count, but would be in the billions of dollars. Online theft of patents and trade secrets from U.S. companies often results in large job and revenue losses to industry. Comey said the number of daily attacks from hackers and cyber-terrorists are too many to count, and that Americans underestimate the danger of cybercrime. The U.S. indicted five Chinese military experts for cybertheft in May, outraging China, which denies computer hacking and accuses the United States of industrial spying. Disease control director is optimistic on ebola By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
America’s top disease prevention official says he remains confident the United States will not experience a significant outbreak of ebola, but that containment in Africa is critical to reducing risks elsewhere in the world. At present, a Liberian man in Dallas, Texas, is the only confirmed active ebola case known in the United States. But swift responses to recent false alarms show a national medical community on high alert, including the mobilization of a disease control unit to meet an incoming international flight on which an African man had become ill, as it turns out, with something other than ebola. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tom Frieden, says there is no cause for panic. “Here in the U.S., I remain quite confident we will not have a widespread outbreak. We will stop it in its tracks. We have got infection control in hospitals and public health that tracks and isolates people if they get symptoms,” said Frieden, speaking on ABC’s "This Week" program. He emphasized that, ultimately, ebola must be controlled at its source. “I am quite concerned, the longer this goes on in these three West African countries, the greater the possibility that other countries in Africa are going to have to fight this on their territory, as well. We have to recognize that, try as we might, until the outbreak is controlled in Africa, we cannot get the risk here to zero,” said Frieden. The United States has dispatched military and civilian personnel to West Africa to help combat the virus, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives in recent months. Meanwhile, some African immigrants in the United States say they fear being shunned if the public’s apprehensions about ebola escalate to widespread panic. “Just being a black person or just being a citizen from Africa does not mean you have ebola,” said Steve Oriabure, a Nigerian immigrant in Dallas. Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person or corpse. Symptoms appear two to 21 days after infection. New map of earth's sea flood produces many surprises By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
More is known about the surface of Mars than the sea floor of this planet, 80 percent of which is unmapped. That’s changing, though, with the release of a new map based on untapped streams of satellite data. The new map created by a team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is twice as accurate as the version produced by the U.S. Navy 20 years ago. “The way we’re doing that is to use satellite altimeter, a radar, to map the topography of the ocean surface, said a Scripps geophysics professor, David Sandwell. in an interview. “But now that seems sort of strange that you would map the topography on the ocean surface where you really want to get at the sea floor. But the ocean surface topography has these bumps and dips due to gravitational effects that mimic what’s on the sea floor.” The scientists pulled data from two satellites, launched for other purposes. The European Space Agency’s Cryo-2 was in the sky to monitor sea ice, and NASA’s Jason-1 studied ocean surface. This data set produced the big picture, which was combined with the much finer resolution images captured from ships equipped with multi-beam sonar. “That enables us to look at smaller scale features and also features that are buried by the sediments in the ocean basins,” said Sandwell. The new map shows the fabric of the sea floor as never seen before with thousands of underwater mountains, ridges where continents had pulled apart, and extinct earthquake activity buried deep under layers of sediment. At one site where three ridges meet, the Earth’s huge thick tectonic plates appear in exquisite detail. Sandwell said it is called the Indian Ocean Triple Junction, and is one of his favorite spots in the ocean. “It really displays the theoretical aspects of plate tectonics perfectly. You have three plates, the African plate, and the Indo-Australian plate and the Antarctic plate all connected at this one point in the Center of the Indian Ocean.” The map exposed continental connections across South America and Africa and showed evidence for sea floor spreading ridges at the Gulf of Mexico, active 150 million years ago now under layers of sediment. Sandwell said the map is a powerful tool for fisheries conservation and for petroleum exploration. “The petroleum industry is interested in how to reconnect the continents, bringing them back together tectonically so you can map the basins on one continental margin in Africa, and use that to establish where a similar basin would be on the other continental margin in South America.” The data also greatly improves estimates of ocean depths critical for safe navigation, military operations and science missions worldwide, Sandwell adds, “This new gravity map really provides a reconnaissance tool for planning ship board surveys. You don’t have to go out with your ship and start looking for something new. We can target that with the gravity and then go out with the ship and do the high resolution survey to really understand these features.” Sandwell expects many more discoveries to emerge as scientists delve into the data set. The work is described in the current issue of the journal Science. Honeymoon murder trial begins today in South Africa By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The murder trial of a British millionaire accused of ordering the killing of his wife while they were on honeymoon in South Africa is set to begin today. The millionaire, Shrien Dewani, 34, is accused of hiring hit men to murder his wife. He denies any involvement. Dewani was extradited to South Africa in April after a three-year legal battle. Anni Dewani was shot dead in Cape Town in November 2010, just days after the couple's wedding in India. Prosecutors allege Dewani paid Cape Town residents Zola Tongo, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni to kill his wife. The three men are serving jail terms in South Africa in connection with the murder. Dewani claims he and his wife were kidnapped at gunpoint, and that he was released unharmed, while his bride was killed with a gunshot to the neck. Memorial to disabled vets inaugurated in Washington By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
President Barack Obama paid tribute to disabled U.S. veterans Sunday as he inaugurated a memorial in their honor. The president said the new memorial, the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, in Washington commemorates two centuries of Americans who were physically or mentally injured while fighting for the United States. "From this day forward, Americans will come to this place and ponder the immense sacrifice on their behalf, the heavy burden born by few so that we might live in freedom and peace," said the president. The Obama administration came under heavy criticism earlier this year when the head of Veterans Affairs resigned amid reports that veterans were receiving inadequate healthcare and waiting months for treatment. The president said from the podium Sunday that the memorial should be a reminder of the obligations this country is under. "If they come home having left a part of themselves on the battlefield on our behalf, this memorial tells us what we must do. When our wounded veterans set out on that long road of recovery, we need to move Heaven and Earth to make sure they get every single benefit, every bit of care, that they have earned, that they deserve," said Obama. More than 50,000 U.S. troops were wounded while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan since the early 2000s. |
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Remember leaf-cutter ants? Tiny, voracious, and too numerous to count. First, a word or two about the ants themselves. Leaf-cutters
Our arsenal for controlling these pests includes chemical and non-chemical weapons. Myrex and Omitox, placed on their trails, will divert them from cutting leaves. Instead of leaves, they take the pellets back to the nest where it kills the fungus they feed on so that the nest dies. An alternative to leaf cutter control is MaxForce with hydramethynon which is applied directly to the ant mound several times and will kill the colony. When using any chemical method, remember to wear latex gloves and try not to leave any human scent on the product. If you prefer a non-chemical attack, mix baby powder and cayenne pepper with some boric acid powder and pour it into the nest. The drawback is that you will need a lot of the mix and a number of applications before you solve the problem. Then there are the more creative approaches that take into account the nature of an ant colony. The foraging ants lay down a chemical trail as they go to and from a food source. If the trail never gets put down, the tree is safe. So, to keep the ant from finding your tree, try this. Cut the top and bottom from a 2 liter soda bottle then cut a slit in the side so you can fit it around the trunk of a young tree. Tape it closed from the inside and then put a thick sticky substance on the plastic. The ants should get stuck, the trail never gets laid down, and the plant is safe. There are several variations on this method, including placing a circle of screening around the trunk or using a moat to prevent access to the plant. All of these methods take time and patience as they Oh, and did I mention that sometimes these things work and sometimes they don’t? That, friends, is the nature of the leaf-cutter ant.
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| From Page 7: Colonial holds another birthday bash By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
When it comes to birthday parties, the man who is hard to beat is Shelby McAdams. He is the owner of the Club Colonial, which just marked its 32nd birthday. The business, which is much more than just a casino, is on Avenida Primera in San José downtown. The building also hosts one of the city's better restaurants, the Magnolia. The Sleep Inn hotel is adjacent. Since 1982, McAdams has prospered despite an uncertain world and national economies and whatever surprises the central government can send his way. Typically those who gamble there also can take advantage of a buffet each evening. But for the Sept. 20 birthday, the casino also served free drinks and brought in a combo to perform on stage and throughout the establishment with video feeds. The buffet was not the usual. The menu included Greek and Mediterranean salad, gorgonzola steak, trout stuffed with sea bass mousse and stuffed chicken in passion fruit sauce. Carlos Alegria, club manager, said that from 450 to 500 persons were served. Special guesses included off-duty casino employees, business people, athletes, and Costa Rica artists. |
