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Crew members load the man
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Crew members from the Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas rescued a man who was swimming in an inlet in Cieneguita, Limón, about 11 a.m. Wednesday. The 30-year-old man arrived at the site of a partly sunken ship by swimming but could continue no further, witnesses said, according to crew members. The man did not respond to the approaching coast guard crew, so he was rescued and taken for medical treatment, they said. Fishing workshop scheduled for Saturday By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Pacific Sportfishing Association plans a meeting Saturday in Puntarenas to analyze the state of recreational sportfishing in Costa Rica and to get input from the many constituents on ways to improve that status, according to The Billfish Foundation. The event is being assisted by the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo and the Instituto Costarricense de Pesca y Acuicultura Herbert Nanne, the Central American director for The Billfish Foundation and a member of the National Sportfishing Commission, said that the workshop has invited people from across the nation representing both freshwater and saltwater fishing from both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, he reported in a release. Police say they liberated woman hostage By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Police had detained a man who is accused of holding his ex-companion hostage along with her two children. The Fuerza Pública said it liberated the woman from the man's car in Naranjo about 11 p.m. Tuesday. They called the situation a case of family violence. Police said they confiscated a .32-caliber pistol. The woman told them that she had been held hostage in the car since the afternoon, police reported. The children are three years and six months, they said. Five honored for Latin American coverage By the Columbia University news staff
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism honored five journalists Wednesday for reporting on Latin America. They are Lucas Mendes, GloboNews, Brazil; Raúl Peñaranda, Página Siete, Bolivia; Simon Romero, The New York Times, United States; Mark Stevenson, The Associated Press, United States. The Maria Moors Cabot Special Citation was awarded to Ernesto Londoño, The New York Times, United States. The Cabot Prizes honor journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and furthered inter-American understanding through their reporting and editorial work. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston founded the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes as a memorial to his wife in 1938. They are the oldest international journalism awards. The 2015 Cabot medalists are Lucas Mendes, GloboNews, Brazil A pioneering foreign correspondent for Brazilian print media and television since the late 1960s, Lucas Mendes has built an outstanding and sustained body of work from his adoptive New York that has significantly advanced understanding between the Americas’ two largest nations. For a quarter century, Mendes has been executive editor and host of the influential weekly television magazine program, "Manhattan Connection," on GloboNews, Brazil’s first 24-hour cable television news channel. In 1997, “Manhattan Connection” was the first news outlet in the country to bring to public attention the allegations of corruption at the giant state oil company Petrobras, a revelation with enormous political and economic ramifications that has been front page news in Brazil for the past year and a half. Raúl Peñaranda, Página Siete, Bolivia Raul Peñaranda is one of the most accomplished journalists in Bolivia today. He has been a successful media entrepreneur, an innovator, an outstanding editor and analyst, a prolific book writer and “a voice of cool reason” in the heated and polarized political environment the country has experienced in recent years. He created three independent media outlets, all of them successful: Nueva Economía, La Época and Página Siete, an accomplishment in any country today. Página Siete, designed while he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, featured an innovative business plan financing iPads to readers in order to build his audience and increase the then-incipient Internet penetration. His strong stance against abuse of power and media concentration by the Morales regime, particularly in his latest book “Control Remoto,” earned him relentless persecution by the government, which called him a traitor and a spy. Despite this, Peñaranda continues to write his columns and articles as an editorial writer and editor of the International Sunday edition of the paper he founded. Simon Romero, The New York Times, United States In more than two decades of covering Latin America, Simon Romero has demonstrated extraordinary depth and breadth as well as a vast historical knowledge in explaining the continent to readers in the United States and beyond. He has covered the big and politically sensitive stories such as Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, Colombia's guerrilla war and its hopes for peace and Brazil's crusade against hyperinflation and corruption. He has written with fairness and thoroughness in highly polarized situations, providing nuance and context. But perhaps Romero's most compelling talent is to root out small and difficult chronicles, often in places where hardly anyone travels, to tell larger stories. His reporting has taken him to far-flung places, from the cave paintings in northeast Brazil where the first native peoples reported their stories to battling mountain sickness in Chile to report on radio antennas set up to study the origins of the universe. Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Mark Stevenson has covered Mexico and its complicated, sometimes violent, social conflicts for over two decades. In the process, he has ventured into some of the most remote and dangerous corners of the country. Last year, he went into one such area after he realized something was wrong with a routine press release from Mexico’s defense ministry. It claimed that 22 members of a drug gang had been killed in a confrontation with an army unit that had suffered only one casualty, a wounded soldier. Stevenson traveled to the scene of the confrontation in a dangerous area that is disputed by rival drug gangs. What he found and described in minute, gripping detail was the scene not of a shootout, as the army had announced, but of what appeared to be an extrajudicial killing where soldiers had executed gang members after they had surrendered. His story shredded the government’s initial cover up of the killings. Since his initial reporting, three soldiers have been charged with murder. Witnesses who were imprisoned to keep them silent have been freed. Ernesto Londoño, The New York Times In addition to the gold medals for lifetime achievement, the Cabot jury also searches for journalistic accomplishments in the past year that have had an extraordinary impact on the region. Such was the case with a remarkable series of editorials by The New York Times on Cuba. The editorials built a compelling factual and political case for the United States to end its 50-year-old policy of confrontation with Cuba. Published simultaneously in Spanish and English, the editorials argued forcefully that engagement would promote the transformation of Cuba into a more open and prosperous society, and that it would invigorate independent journalism. |
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Members of the Talamanca BriBri community will be demonstrating at Casa Presidencial today against a carbon swap scheme that the native inhabitants say they do not want. They will seek a meeting with President Luis Guillermo Solís The program is called REDD+, which the BriBri representatives said that they never asked for or gave approval. They called it a false solution to climate change. A statement expressed fears that the plan would prevent the traditional use of the woodlands by the residents. They said |
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Trafficking stamp issued by Correos By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Correos de Costa Rica has come out with a stamp to focus attention on trafficking in persons. The issue is of 15,000 500-colon stamps and is part of an American postal union collection. The stamp shows silhouettes of four persons and a map of Costa Rica. There also is a special postmark and 3,000 first-day covers. Trafficking generally involves forcible relocation for prostitution or labor and commercial escorting of individuals, usually from one country to another. There were just five cases reported in Costa Rica last year, according to the Fundación Rahab, an organization supported partly by the U.S. government. |
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The series of June storms that caused damage in eight cantons in northeast Costa Rica will result in 75 billion colons in emergency payments. That was announced Wednesday. The bulk of the money will |
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Limón, Sarapiquí and Turrialba. The amount is about $142 million. Some 21.5 billion colons or $40.5 million will go to agencies and institutions that participated in the response to the emergency. The rest will be incorporated into a fund that will be used for a variety of projects. |
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A California couple purchased three Old West photographs for $2 from a junk store in Fresno, California, only to learn that one of them, the earliest known image of the world famous Wild West outlaw Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, may be worth $5 million. Experts say the 1878 tintype photo is so valuable because it is a rare historic document. McCarty, who also used the pseudonym William H. Bonney, is one of the most notorious 19th-century U.S. outlaws. Books and movies have made Billy the Kid a celebrity known to Wild West fans at home and abroad. But now a photo from the summer of 1878, showing the gunman playing croquet with his gang members and family, is serving as a basis for a new documentary. "It's the holy grail of not just Western photography. It's the holy grail of photography. It is the rarest photograph in the world and it was found in a Fresno junk shop," said Jeff Aiello, the film's director. That happened in 2010, when a couple picked up the photograph from a box of old photos in a local secondhand store. The couple first chose two photos featuring women. Then, a third one depicting a country scene caught the husband's eye. "So I picked it back up and thought, it's got a hole on top, kind of beat up," Randy Guijarro of Fresno remembered. "OK, so I got those three photographs for two bucks." But a reputable Americana expert recently appraised the photo at $5 million, and film director Aiello found it useful in making his documentary "Billy the Kid -- New Evidence." |
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Henry McCarty, Billy the KidHe said it helped him find remnants of the New Mexico house where the photo was taken. "We found the old lumber underneath. We found those exact rock piers are still there," he said. The director's wife, Jill Aiello, who has aided the research, said it has helped to identify one of the women in the photo who recorded some of the contemporary events. "I found that not only did Sally Chisolm have a diary, but she also has a journal that predates the diary," Mrs. Aiello remembers. Billy the Kid, nicknamed for his youthful looks, participated in a deadly factional war in the New Mexico Territory in 1878, shortly after the photo was taken. He escaped after his group lost a decisive battle and was killed by authorities three years later. |
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| Security screenings stopped by glitch at some U.S. airports By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer system that checks airline passengers against terrorism watch lists experienced a brief service disruption, about 90 minutes, Wednesday night, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said. The problem led to long delays at security screenings at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport, as well as other entry ports into the U.S., including Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Baltimore. Many passengers took to social media to complain about the delays. The agency said customs agents processed international travelers using alternative procedures until the systems were back online. Customs said, "At this time, there is no indication the service disruption was malicious in nature." New position would target home-grown U.S. terrorists By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. Justice Department is creating a position to coordinate investigations into the growing number of domestic terrorism cases in the United States. John Carlin, the head of the law enforcement agency's national security division, told a group at George Washington University Wednesday that the official who holds the as-yet-unnamed position would lead development of strategies to thwart U.S.-based attacks and oversee prosecution of suspected terrorists. Carlin said more Americans have been killed in recent years by domestic extremists than in attacks linked to international terrorist groups. In one prominent incident this year, a man with white supremacist views shot nine African-Americans to death in a church hall in Charleston, South Carolina. "Homegrown violent extremists can be motivated by any viewpoint on a whole spectrum of hate: anti-government views, racism, bigotry, anarchy and other despicable beliefs," Carlin said. He said there "is no single ideology that governs." Carlin said the Justice Department had no intention of trying to curb constitutionally protected freedom of speech in the United States. But he said the agency would focus "on the line between speech and violence." Wounded lawmaker joins to start anti-gun coalition By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Former U.S. representative Gabrielle Giffords has launched a new campaign aimed at protecting women from gun violence. The bipartisan coalition, a mix of female policymakers, law enforcers, educators, activists and Hollywood stars, is designed both to highlight the gun threat facing women and to promote the policy changes to combat the scourge nationwide. Ms. Giffords, who was shot and nearly killed in a gunman's rampage in her Tucson district in 2011, said the problem is urgent and demands an immediate response. "We have a problem in our country," Ms. Giffords said during a conference in Washington examining domestic violence. "Too many women are dying from gun violence." Dubbed the Women's Coalition for Common Sense, the campaign is urging tougher laws to keep guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous people, such as convicted stalkers and domestic abusers. Joining Ms. Giffords in the campaign are former secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman and actress Alyssa Milano. Fact checkers find flaws in Democrat debaters claims By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Political fact-checkers in the U.S. say that numerous claims made by the Democratic presidential candidates at their debate Tuesday night are dubious at best and in many cases simply wrong. Fact-checkers at The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico agreed that the party's leading contender, former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, misstated State Department policy when she said the agency she headed from 2009 to 2013 allowed her to use a private email server to send and receive personal and government messages. "That's dubious," Politico said. "Clinton has made this claim repeatedly, but a State Department policy on the books when she was secretary said routine work-related email use should be conducted on official systems." Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server set up in her home outside New York City has embroiled her campaign, with many voters questioning her honesty about the issue. She says that she never received or sent emails labeled as classified national security documents, but U.S. investigators say their ongoing review of thousands of her emails already has turned up dozens that should have been classified as such. Mrs. Clinton said a congressional investigation into her use of the email is a Republican-inspired attempt to undercut her presidential campaign but said she would answer questions about it at an Oct. 22 hearing. The fact-checkers also questioned Mrs. Clinton's claim that former national security contractor Edward Snowden would have been protected by U.S. law as a whistleblower had he disclosed his complaints about American surveillance programs to U.S. authorities. Instead, he leaked thousands of documents two years ago to news agencies before fleeing to Russia to live in asylum. Politico and The Washington Post noted that government workers are protected against retaliation internally when making complaints about government programs but that Snowden was working for a government contractor and would not have been covered by the law. The fact-checkers questioned Clinton's claim that as the country's top diplomat she had hoped the recently negotiated 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal "would be the gold standard." A few days ago, she announced her opposition to the deal, saying it did not meet her standards. The fact-checkers noted that in 2012 she said the deal "set the gold standard in trade agreements." The news agencies also questioned claims by Mrs. Clinton's leading challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. They said his claim that the U.S. has more income inequality than any other country is not remotely true, with income inequality much higher in the under-developed world, especially Africa. They also said Sanders understated the extent of poverty in the U.S. He said 27 million people live in poverty when the correct figure is more than 46 million. The fact-checkers also found fault with some claims made by the three other Democratic contenders, former Rhode Island senator Lincoln Chafee, former Virginia senator Jim Webb and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley. Climate change is addressed as a major security issue By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Weeks before a key climate change conference in Paris, experts and defense ministers from more than a dozen nations gathered Wednesday in the French capital to discuss the toxic effects of climate change on world security. “Climate change is a threat to peace,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, describing a world where floods, desertification and droughts will intensify conflicts over ever-scarcer resources and spark a massive wave of environmental refugees. The meeting included ministers from Chad, Niger, Haiti and the Seychelles, countries that are experiencing first hand the threats and fallout of conflicts and climate-influenced catastrophes. Ghana’s defense minister, Benjamin Bewa-Nyog Kunbour, spoke of forests where he used to play as a child that have been reduced to desert, rivers drying up and the country’s trees cover just a small fraction of its size half a century ago. “Terrorism is significant, but naked hunger is as significant as terrorism,” he said. “And the relationship between terrorist activities and naked hunger are obvious. If you look at the vectors of recruitment into terrorist cells, most of the most vulnerable are hunger-prone areas.” Nearly 150 nations have pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions ahead of December’s climate change summit in Paris. If carried through, experts say, those cuts could limit global warming to 3 degrees Celsius, 1 degree beyond the limit at which they warn the planet could face catastrophic weather events. Also addressing Wednesday’s meeting at the Military School in Paris, Niger’s Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidjo described the nexus between climate change and the tangle of militant groups threatening the country, including Boko Haram, al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. All are directly linked to ever-scarcer resources, he said, as creeping desert and vanishing arable land threaten the lives of millions of people. The surface area of Lake Chad, a lifeline that provides water to the four Sahel countries it straddles, including Niger, has shrunk 90 percent from its size in 1962. Scarce water has helped to intensify poverty, hunger and insecurity, Karidjo said, making people living on its shores more vulnerable to Boko Haram extremists. “The youth no longer listen to their parents. Increasingly, they become targets for Boko Haram terrorists,” he said. “They become drugged, indoctrinated and return to their own villages to sow terror and insecurity.” Defense Minister Lener Renauld of Haiti, which is threatened by massive deforestation and rising sea levels as temperatures warm, said he was convinced there’s no plan B for fighting climate change. Even as experts say climate change is likely to intensify conflicts over increasingly scarce resources, they suggest mechanisms to fight global warming can help foster peace. “Reducing our greenhouse gases, developing renewable energy that’s accessible to all countries, decarbonizing our economies, engaging in energy transition is less a constraint than a change to seize,” said French Environment Minister Segolene Royal. Officials described Wednesday’s meeting in Paris as a first, but it comes as security risks are being increasingly factored into the climate change debate. In July, a report by the U.S. Defense Department called climate change an urgent and growing threat to national security, and this week NATO’s parliament demanded stronger action by member states to tackle a warming planet. Sen. Leila Aichi of EELV, the French Green Party, said French defense officials were lagging behind the Pentagon in confronting the risks and implications of climate change but were heading in the right direction. “They’re much more responsive on the question than politicians, because they think in the long term,” she said in an interview. “The army is also in much closer contact with nature.” But, she added, security risks are not fully factored into climate change talks taking place ahead of the Paris summit. Nor has the French military formally incorporated climate change into its defense strategy. Spring predicted to come early as earth's temperature warms By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Over the next century, spring will arrive earlier and earlier in the United States, researchers say. The cause: rising global temperatures. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, in the study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, say the spring growing season will come about three weeks earlier than usual over the next 100 years. This could have a dramatic impact on crops and the animals that depend on them, the researchers said. "Our projections show that winter will be shorter, which sound great for those of us in Wisconsin" said Andrew Allstadt, one of the study's authors, in a statement. "But long distance migratory birds, for example, time their migration based on day length in their winter range. They may arrive in their breeding ground to find that the plant resources that they require are already gone." The early arrival of spring will vary around the U.S., researchers said, noting that the shift will be more pronounced in the Pacific Northwest and mountainous West, with less of an impact in the southern part of the country. So-called false springs, when freezing temperatures return after the growing season has begun, also will decrease in most locations, according to the research. One area, the western Great Plains, could see an increase in false springs. "This is important as false springs can damage plant production cycles in natural and agricultural systems" Allstadt said. "In some cases, an entire crop can be lost." Protein in brain identified as contributor to Alzheimer's By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Scientists have identified a protein they say may play a big part in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the researchers said autopsies on the brains of some Alzheimer's patients have shown high levels of a protein called GPR3. Experiments in which the protein is eliminated in mice with the disease showed improvement in the animals' condition. But the doctors said much more research was needed to see whether the same result could be reached in humans. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of a condition known as dementia in which the brain's cognitive and memory functions degenerate. There is no cure for the disease, and the number of cases is expected to grow as the global population ages. Ebola returns in nurse who was called recovered By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A British nurse, treated for ebola in January, is critically ill following a resurgence of the virus. "We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey's condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill," announced the Royal Free Hospital in London where she is being treated. Ms. Cafferkey was transferred from a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, early Wednesday "due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the ebola virus." She was diagnosed with the virus in December after returning from Sierra Leone, where she worked for the charity Save the Children at an ebola treatment center. Ms. Cafferkey spent nearly a month in an isolation unit at the London hospital where she was treated with an experimental anti-viral drug before her release in January, after making what doctors said was a full recovery. A British virologist says she may be the second case in which the ebola virus has reactivated. Health officials are monitoring 58 people who have had close contact with Ms. Cafferkey, including friends, family, and healthcare workers. Officials say 25 of the 40 people who had direct contact with her are receiving the vaccine while 15 others have either declined or were unable to receive it due to medical conditions. |
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An advantage to being a professional photographer is to be a witness to history. Such is the case with Juan Guzmán, who was born in Germany as Hans Gutmann Guster. He is best known for his iconic photos of the Spanish Civil War where he served on the Republican side and participated in history. But he also shot the 1936 Summer Olympics that Adolf Hitler put on as a propaganda show. He loved Spain and adopted that country's citizenship as he changed his name. But the Republicans lost, and he was exiled to México where he photographed individuals like Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. He also worked for the old Life Magazine that was known for its photos with impact and its sister publication Life en Español. The EFE news agency purchased many of Guzman's negatives. But so did the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. An academic there, Maricela González Cruz Manjarrez, is an expert on the photographer, and she will be present tonight at 7 o'clock when an exhibit of the works is inaugurated at the Museo de Arte Costarricense in Parque la Sabana. The photos will be there until Jan. 10, the museum said. The title is "El Instante Luminoso," the same as a 2009 book by Dr. González. That seems to refer to the instant the photographer snaps the photo. |
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| From Page 7: Police and vendors clash again downtown By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Police and street vendors clashed Wednesday as officers tried to confiscate items that were for sale. The flare up was a continuation of what happened Tuesday after bicycle Fuerza Pública officers confiscated CDs, and eventually three persons were detained. The Policía Municipal was the force involved in the Wednesday disturbance that may have included up to 100 vendors. Their presence on the streets are illegal, but they usually work hard to avoid police. Wednesday about 4 p.m. the confrontation degenerated into throwing of trash. That happened on Avenida Segunda between calles 6 and 8. Seven persons were detained. The vendors usually do not have business permits and do not pay sales taxes. A lot of the merchandise is counterfeit. Some of the vendors really are selling drugs, and a large number are foreigners. The Fuerza Pública said that the number of vendors is expected to increase with the approach of the holiday season. |
