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Morales says he
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared victory in his bid for a third term in office. Exit polls showed Morales winning with about 60 percent of Sunday's vote. His closest challenger, businessman Samuel Doria Medina, had 24 percent. Speaking to thousands of supporters late Sunday in La Paz, the president described the vote as a victory for his model of governing. He dedicated the win to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez. "This win is a triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists," said Morales. Morales has led Bolivia since 2006 with a left-wing economic policy, nationalist rhetoric and a focus on indigenous rights and the environment. Bolivia's economy has averaged 5 percent growth each year he has been in office. Despite the advances, the country remains one of the poorest in South America, and critics have accused the president of abusing his power. Liberia is scene of a drive-by killing By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Liberia was the scene of a drive-by killing Sunday morning. Fuerza Pública officers detained three men and a woman after a chase that resulted in a collision with a patrol car, they said. Dead is Michael Moreno Rodríguez, 26. of Liberia. The Fuerza Pública said that the shooting took place at a store, but Judicial investigators said the scene was the public street. The Fuerza Pública said that officers located a shotgun and a pistol in the suspects' vehicle. They said that some of the suspects have been detained on an allegation of illegally carrying a firearm in the past. Judicial agents said that the motive is unclear. Four motorcycle deaths reported By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The latest motorcycle fatality on the nation's highway is a 27-year-old man with the last name of Villalobos, who died Saturday evening after being taken to Hospital México Saturday afternoon. Agents said they were unsure of the circumstances. A 20-year-old motorcycle operator died Saturday in Hospital San Juan de Dios from injuries suffered Sept. 22. He was identified by the last name of Fajardo A motorcycle operator with the last name of Chavarría died Thursday night when his machines collided head-on with with a passenger car, said Judicial agents. That was in Desamparados de Alajuela. A companion survived. Agents said that the crash happened when the automobile invaded the lane in which the motorcycle was traveling. Agents also investigated a motorcycle crash Friday in which a 19 year old with the last name of Blanco died. That was in Los Chorros de Pérez Zeledón, The preliminary investigation report said that the motorcycle skidded about 6 p.m. British airline adds Liberia flight By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Thomson Airways says it will add a direct flight from London, England, to Liberia starting in November. The Instituto Costarricense de Turismo announced the once-a-week flight Friday. The aircraft will have 291 seats and leave from the Gatwick airport.
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| Illegal logging in Guanacaste linked to international
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The Fuerza Pública reported Friday that it is battling what appears to be an organized effort to take protected trees from public and private lands. The police agency said that 26 persons were detained from January through September in cases of wood theft. Some 21 of the suspects were caught in the act, police said. There does not seem to be a serious penalty for trying to steal the wood, which is very expensive overseas. Of those detained, 19 were able to enter into a conciliation with officials, one was found innocent and one received 20 days in jail. But even the convicted individual went free because the sentence was converted to conditional execution, basically probation. Police think there is an organized crime syndicate to ship the wood to Asia because there are similar cases of wood thefts in Panamá and México, they said. Police said they had confiscated 300 illegal logs. In one case illegal loggers engaged police is a brief firefight. Police said that a cubic meter of cocobolo, the most valuable of the protected trees, can bring $2,500 overseas. In addition to cocobolo, the other trees sought by thieves include cedro, cenízaro, guanacaste, laurel, pochote and teca. Tree thieves were reported to be using mufflers on their chainsaws so that owners of private land did not know they were stealing trees. In some cases, logs are cut into smaller pieces so they could be transported in car trunks, police said. The bulk of the tree thefts are in Guanacaste province with the canton of Santa Cruz at the top of the list, police said. |
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Four earthquakes havetaken place in the southern part of the country since early Friday. The first was an early Friday morning tremor just 23 minutes after midnight. The location was in the Gulfo Dulce about 2.9 kilometers south southeast of Pavón. This was felt in Puerto Jiménez across the gulf and in Corredores, nearby Golfito, Ciudad Neily and San Vito. Then Friday at 4:53 a.m. a 4.9 quake took place 5.2 kilometers southeast of Pavón. Although the quake had slightly less magnitude, it was felt stronger |
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Sismica at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Another 4.9 magnitude quake took place in roughly the same area at 25 minutes after midnight Sunday. The epicenter was estimated to be 7.1 kilometers south southeast of Pavón. Again it was felt strongest in Corredores and Ciudad Neily. Then at 7:39 p.m. Sunday there was a 3.6 magnitude quake in the same area, 5.3 kilometers north northeast of Pavón. This quake probably was not even felt by the residents, according to the Laboratorio's automatic monitoring stations. Although there is a major and highly active fault running up the length of the gulf, previous quakes in the Pavón area have been blamed on a local fault. |
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| Contra
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The journalistic integrity of U.S. media; an illicitly-financed, CIA-backed war against Nicaraguan Sandinistas; the crack epidemic of 1980's urban America: these are the main subjects of Michael Cuesta’s "Kill the Messenger." In the film, Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner portrays Gary Webb, the real life San Jose Mercury News reporter who is warned against publishing information that proves the CIA turned a blind eye while its Nicaraguan allies, the Contras, smuggled cocaine into the U.S. to fund their war against the country's Sandinista government. Defiant in the face of threats, Webb publishes a three-part series called "The Dark Alliance," writing not only about the well-known connection between the CIA and the drug traffickers, but alleging their large-scale smuggling operation had fueled the crack epidemic in predominantly African-American communities in some U.S. cities. From there, says Renner, Webb’s life unravels. “Big interests, big media getting scooped, making Gary the story or discrediting him or tearing the story apart, versus furthering the journalism, which is shame and travesty, if you ask me,” he said. The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, which had not given the CIA-Contra connection much coverage in the 80s, dismissed Webb’s conclusions about the crack epidemic as speculative. Eventually, his own paper backed down. Renner calls it a typical David versus Goliath story — only this time, Goliath wins. “Not to discredit the San Jose Mercury News," he said, "I just think the whole story became much bigger than any of them was ever used to, and [they] didn’t know how to handle it ... except Gary, who just needed more support to go and dig and find more truth.” Investigative reporter Robert Parry, who was the first to break the CIA-Contra story for the Associated Press in 1985, agrees. “Webb did something that was very important that we did not do,” he said. “We had focused on the Contra movement and the importation of drugs throughout Central America into the United States. What Webb did was look at what happened when the drugs got here.” According to Cuesta, Webb did not have direct evidence that linked Contra drug trafficking to the crack epidemic. “It wasn’t nuanced enough," he said. "It was easy for the other papers to find flaws in it.” |
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But Parry says Webb’s reporting had substantial merit of another very important kind: he and the black caucus finally forced the CIA to investigate a drug epidemic they helped to create. In 1998, Inspector General Frederick Hitz released a report connecting the CIA directly to the Contras’ drug trafficking operations. But, according to Parry, Webb's reporting ultimately fell prey to bad timing. Published in the mid-1990s, he says, the story surfaced while large U.S. media outlets paid more attention to the Monica Lewinsky scandal than the hardships of crack-ravaged U.S. communities of a prior decade. "The press was more fascinated by the president’s sex life than they were about whether or not the CIA had been involved with drug traffickers back in the 1980s," he said. By the time the Hitz report came out, Webb’s career had been destroyed. He committed suicide in 2004. Cuesta hopes his film will renew the conversation about the integrity of the press. “If you call it a movie about indicting any particular establishment like the government, I think it’s more about media," he said. Parry agrees. “The media should take this movie as an opportunity to reassess what it did," he said. "This was a terrible action by the major news organizations. And they should look at themselves and say ‘was our behavior proper?’ And I think if they did that they would have to admit that honestly it wasn’t. That instead of advancing a major story on a major scandal, they helped suppress the story about a major scandal. That’s the opposite of what American people expect of their news media.” |
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| Islamic State militants said to compensate for air strikes By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
America’s top military commander says Islamic State militants are adapting to a U.S.-led air campaign, making targets in Iraq and Syria harder for coalition forces to identify and eliminate. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, spoke one day after U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described the task of defeating the Islamic State group as difficult and complicated. Fierce fighting continues in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, where militants posted video showing battles being waged street by street and house by house, trapping civilians and swelling the ranks of refugees. In Iraq, government troops continue to battle Sunni radicals outside Baghdad, where another wave of car bombs left a trail of human carnage. But U.S. military commanders note Islamic State advances on Baghdad and Irbil have been halted, even as militants display new cunning in hiding their positions and movements in response to coalition air strikes. This, according to Dempsey, makes the job more difficult but not impossible to tackle. “The enemy adapts, and they will be harder to target. They know how to maneuver and to use populations and concealment. So, when we get a target, we will take it,” said Dempsey, speaking on ABC’s This Week program. During a visit to Chile, Defense Hagel acknowledged that it’s a dangerous endeavor but vowed that there will be no let-up in the coalition air campaign. “The effort to degrade and eventually destroy ISIL is a long-term effort. This is difficult. It is complicated. It will require many factors: coalition partners, a strong, stable, united Iraqi government, strong Syrian opposition forces, and it is going to take a while. It is not going to be fast. It is not going to be easy,” said Hagel. A more dire assessment came from Republican Sen. John McCain, who said Sunday the Islamic State is winning. Dempsey said he still does not see a need for U.S. combat troops in Iraq, but could envision benefits of U.S. forces accompanying Iraqi troops in future high-intensity missions, such as to recapture the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul. Equatorial Guinea's playboy to surrender U.S. holdings By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Equatorial Guinea's second vice president Teodorin Nguema Obiang has been ordered by the U.S. Justice Department to sell more than $30 million worth of property it believes was bought using illegally obtained assets from corrupt business deals. The U. S. Department of Justice said the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president must forfeit his U.S.-based property and belongings, including a mansion in Malibu, California, Michael Jackson memorabilia, and luxury cars, which are believed to have been purchased using money from illegal dealings in his home country. The civil forfeiture case, alleging nearly $80 million from proceeds of corruption, was originally brought against Teodorin Nguema Obiang in 2011. Ken Hurwitz is a senior legal officer for anti-corruption at the Open Society Justice Initiative. “It is an extraordinary case in that this is the first case where a living person whose assets are being seized. So this is historic in that sense," Hurwitz said. "And it is the first case in the United States . . . the attempt is to seize assets that are owned by the current rulers, people who still maintain power in their countries,” he said. Hurwitz said previous cases have all happened years after the person has died or left power, often making it difficult to track down and define the assets allegedly stolen by those individuals. The Obiang family has ruled Equatorial Guinea for more than 30 years. Despite vast and profitable oil and gas reserves, the World Bank says more than three-quarters of the population lives below the poverty line. Hurwitz said this case also showed how difficult it was to show how this level of corruption occurred. “I think there is disappointment that the case will not reach its potential of really exposing in great detail how the corruption works, how money is laundered and how money is stolen from public funds of the country," Hurwitz said. "And how extortion and self-dealing take place in the country and perhaps most importantly, how the money is laundered, that is to say the role of lawyers and middlemen, bankers and brokers, in assisting to grease the wheels of the accused," he said. Obiang, who is notorious for his lavish lifestyle and playboy ways, said all the items were purchased using money from legal business deals. The Open Society Justice Initiative said that money from the sale of Obiang’s U.S.-based belongings would be given to charitable organizations to benefit the people of Equatorial Guinea. Under a settlement with the Justice Department, Obiang will get to keep his remaining overseas assets, including Michael Jackson’s famous white crystal glove and a $38.5 million Gulfstream jet, although they could be seized if brought to the United States. French writer on Jewishness tapped for 2014 Nobel Prize By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
French novelist Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature for his lifelong exploration of the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country. In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy said Thursday it awarded the $1.1 million prize to the 69-year-old Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies" while uncovering life under German control. Modiano was born in a Paris suburb in July 1945, two months after World War II ended in Europe. His father was of Jewish-Italian heritage and had met his Belgian actress mother during the occupation of Paris. Jewishness, the Nazi occupation and the loss of identity were recurring themes in his novels. One of his works, 1968's "La Place de l'Etoile," was heralded in Germany as an important piece of post-Holocaust literature. Some of his works have been translated into English, including the novels "A Trace of Malice," "Honeymoon" and "Missing Person." Modiano becomes the 107th literature laureate and the 11th winner from France. He joins the ranks of other popular writers such as John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and Pablo Neruda. Former California governor leads climate change effort By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Paris wrapped up the first-ever summit on regional efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with new pledges to combat climate change a year ahead of a key U.N. summit. Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger presided over the regional conference. The World Summit of Regions for Climate ended with a flurry of signatures, as political and business leaders from around the world inked a Paris declaration, laying down commitments to tackle climate change through concrete actions. It also calls on nations to reach an ambitious agreement to cut greenhouse gases when they gather for a United Nations climate change summit in Paris next year. The meeting was organized by the R20 regions, an environmental group founded by Schwarzenegger. He spoke to reporters in Paris following a meeting with French President Francois Hollande. "We are big believers in the regional approach, in the subnational approach. That while, maybe, the U.N. will come to an agreement right away - and hopefully when they have the negotiations in Paris, they will come to an agreement - but to utilize also the subnational governments. Because we in California have been very successful without the help of the national government." During his two terms as California governor, Schwarzenegger earned a reputation as a climate change activist who pushed for clean air and renewable energy programs. The United Nations is pushing for an international climate agreement in Paris next year that will limit global warming to two degrees Celsius over pre-Industrial Revolution levels. French climatologist Jean Jouzel described two global warming scenarios: One in which the climate heated up just two degrees, compared with another in which global warming doubled to four degrees by the end of the century. He described effects of climate change, including typhoons and droughts, loss of biodiversity and coral reefs. He said humans had a much greater chance of adapting with a more moderate temperature change. But reaching the two degree goal will be difficult. A monitor of countries' climate policies called the Climate Action Tracker currently shows the world remains on track for a 3.7 degree warming by the end of the century. The Paris climate meeting took place as French lawmakers are voting on an ambitious bill that aims to halve France's energy consumption by 2050, and cut down on nuclear power use in favor of renewables. Obama orders a probe of nurse's ebola case By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
President Barack Obama called for immediate steps to ensure the U.S. medical system is ready to follow the proper protocol for treating ebola patients. Obama spoke Sunday with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell about the first case of ebola transmission in the United States. Obama ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to quickly investigate how a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital contracted the virus. The nurse was part of the team treating the first ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United States, Thomas Duncan, who died last week. Texas officials say the health worker wore full protective gear and complied with centers guidelines when she had contact with Duncan. Centers Director Tom Frieden said the fact the worker was infected with ebola shows there was a breach of protocol. Frieden said, at this time, it appears only one person may have had contact with the health care worker while she may have been infectious. However, the case in Texas indicated a professional lapse that may have caused other health workers at the hospital to also be infected, he added. Initial testing showed that the level of virus in the worker's system is low. The Centers for Disease Control will conduct a secondary test to confirm the results from a lab in Austin that showed ebola infection, he said. “Unfortunately it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of ebola,” Frieden added. A union for registered nurses said the Texas health care worker's case in Dallas showed that not enough is being done to educate health workers on how to manage patients who show signs of infection. “Handing out a piece of paper with a link to the Centers for Disease Control, or telling nurses just to look at the CDC Web site, as we have heard some hospitals are doing, is not preparedness,” said Bonnie Castillo, a registered nurse and senior official with National Nurses United. Meanwhile, in Spain, authorities said a woman in Madrid infected with ebola remains in serious condition but is showing signs of slight improvement and that the level of virus in her blood is decreasing. The new U.S. case comes as several airports begin a stepped-up program to screen passengers arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, where thousands of people have died from the virus. Authorities at New York's JFK International Airport are taking passengers' temperatures and asking them questions to determine whether they may have come into contact with an infected person. The enhanced screening will expand to four other airports Thursday, including the Newark airport in New Jersey, Washington's Dulles Airport, Chicago's O'Hare and the international airport in Atlanta. Together, the five airports receive more than 90 percent of all travelers entering the United States from the three worst-affected West African countries. Britain is also introducing ebola screening at certain airports and train stations. The World Health Organization says the ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed at least 4,000 people with about 8,400 reported cases. Outside of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, eight people died in Nigeria and one patient died in the United States. Alzheimer's replicated in laboratory petri dish By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Scientists in the United States report a breakthrough in their efforts to find a treatment for Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia. They call it Alzheimer's in a Dish, having successfully reproduced the disease in human brain cells in a laboratory petri dish. Lead researcher Rudolph Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital in the northeastern city of Boston says they grew the brain cells in a gel, then added genes for Alzheimer's. He says the cells soon developed hard clumps known as plaques, and coils known as tangles, both features of Alzheimer's that disrupt normal brain activity. Tanzi says this breakthrough will help reduce the time and cost of drug development. Until now, researchers had to study the disease in mice, a process that can be very time consuming. With the petri dish system, Tanzi says scientists can not only test thousands of drugs in a matter of months but also reduce the cost of testing. News of the breakthrough was published Sunday in the journal Nature. U.S. women's volleyballers take 1st world championship By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. women's volleyball team has won its first-ever world championship, beating China in Sunday's final in Milan, Italy, three sets to one (27-25, 25-20, 16-25, 26-24). Top-ranked Brazil ended up with the bronze medal, outlasting host Italy in the maximum five sets. To reach the title match, the U.S. women had upset Brazil Saturday, winning in straight sets. Brazil defeated the U.S. in the gold medal match at the last Olympics, when the U.S. was ranked first. This U.S. team was coached by 53-year-old American Karch Kiraly, who was considered the best volleyball player of the 20th Century by volleyball's world governing body. He is the only person to have won Olympic gold medals in both volleyball categories: beach and indoor. Now he's won a world title as head coach. He said this U.S. women's team came to Milan to make history, and did it. |
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A word about bad
things in gardens
My sweet little dog, Princessa, was bitten by a terciopelo, a/k/a
Now, what does that have to do with gardening? Terciopelos love gardens, especially those with ornamental grasses or high weeds (yes, we all let our weeds grow too big from time to time) or they may stray in from the neighbor’s fields. Young snakes are sometimes found on large leaves like those of the heliconia as well. Their bite is actually more dangerous as they are likely to inject more venom than bigger snakes. Their injection control is just not well developed. This snake causes more deaths in Costa Rica than any other. Fortunately, it is found mainly below 600 meters (about 1,970 feet). But don’t let that fool you. Snakes cannot read altimeters. We live at 640 meters (about 2,100 feet) and we find a lot of terciopelos. Although most snakes will move away from you if disturbed, this snake is sometimes aggressive. Then there are those pesky little ones on the leaves… Although terciopelos are mainly nocturnal, they are the reason I now wear boots whenever I go into the garden. I hate wearing boots. Boots are good though, as there are other things out there that bite. Fire ants, for example. And then there are the caterpillars. Caterpillars are cute and often look kind of furry, but don’t let “cute and furry” deceive you, caterpillars can be dangerous! Those bright colors, fuzz, and spines are a warning to predators: “Stop! Eat me and die!” For us, it is “Touch me at your own risk”. Caterpillar fuzz and spines can contain toxins that will cause anything from an annoying rash to serious swelling to death from brain hemorrhage. I read one post about a dead caterpillar found in a blouse just in from drying on the clothesline. Even dead, the venom caused a rash and swelling. Two caterpillars that are found locally are the hag caterpillar (for the hag moth, or Phobetron pithecium) and the puss caterpillar, a/k/a asp caterpillar, (for the moth Megalopyge opercularis). There are many more, of course, and I don’t touch any caterpillars, at least not without gloves. Since caterpillars are virtually everywhere, it makes sense to take precautions. So, what to do? Shake out your clothes. Use gloves when you garden. Keep your eyes open for caterpillars and snakes. Wear boots. And don’t be fooled by “cute and fuzzy.”
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| From Page 7: Moín terminal dodges legal obstacle By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A government agency reported Friday that the Sala I of the Corte Suprema de Justicia has rejected an appeal presented by the union of Caribbean dock workers over a proposed container facility there. The agency is the Consejo Nacional de Concesiones, which called the appeal the last legal obstacle to construction of the nearly $1 billion facility. The Consejo predicted that the project would receive environmental approval in November and that a start on the project would come in the first month of next year. The environmental decision will come from the Secretaria Técnica Nacional Ambiental. The Consejo also said that an access route to the site should be completed next month, too. APM Terminals proposed to build the container handling facility, but the plan has met with strong opposition from the Sindicato de Trabajadores of the Junta de Administración Portuaria y de Desarrollo Económico de la Vertiente Atlántica. The proposed terminal is expected to handle ships of 8.800 containers, nearly four times the size that can be accommodated now. The terminal will be on an artificial island at the port of Moín. Union workers fear the terminal will put the public docks out of business. The Consejo said that the cost of shipping s container of 960 boxes of bananas at the new terminal will be $237 compared to $250 at the existing docks. Despite the prediction by the Consejo of the end to legal troubles, the dock worker union probably will take additional action. |
