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Occupy movement needsto be covered by media Dear A.M. Costa Rica: We have a movement that needs the attention of the media just like any movement. I totally agree with most of them that the corporations have taken over. We need to cover the issues being represented in the movement. These are people who have lost their jobs and many times their homes. These people are from all walks of life. They are trying to wake people up to the harm that has been caused by the crisis. The world needs to realize that we need to see what is happening here and a blackout from the media just gives more credence to the cause. Media is bought and paid for by the elite. If we do not allow these alternative voices to be heard, we should be worried. Global voices should be heard. The world has been taken by the bankers and by corporate greed. We can no longer stand by and pretend everything is okay. I only hope this can stay peaceful. The Roman citizenry Saturday showed how violence does not get the proper attention and nor should it. Support the people that can speak out against the corporate greed. We have plenty of it here in our own backyard. Debora
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Uvita Profit-oriented firms won't think twice about moving Dear A.M. Costa Rica: The proposed taxes on the tax free zone will cause a huge loss of jobs for Costa Rica. Costa Rica thinks that companies will stand for new taxes while forgetting that these companies are controlled by stockholders. Stockholders will do whatever needs to be done to protect their investments and their profits. Those taxes, utility costs come out of their profits/pockets. They did not invest in Intel or any other business to help Costa Ricans and their problems. Costa Rica will make a mistake in thinking that the business can’t afford to move their multimillion dollar investment in Costa Rica. They are wrong. Intel and others not only will look at the increase in costs/loss of profits but how much another country will offer them to move in tax savings, utilities, etc. If and that is not a little “if”, they decide to move, Costa Rica won’t be able to stop them. Those companies won’t tell Costa Rica that they are thinking about moving, They will build their new buildings in whatever country has struck a deal with them, and when it is set up and running they will shut down their operations in Costa Rica and will be gone in a few days. Those businesses have figured out just how long they needed to operate in the buildings they put here to reduce the cost to zero and they figure that into their profits. When the proposed taxes/utilities costs equal the cost of a new building and the move they will be gone, and others will follow. The tax free zone will be tax free again as there will be no businesses there to tax. This is not an opinion, it is a fact. It has happened elsewhere and will happen here. Ask the folks what happened in the United States about what happened to their jobs there when the cost went too high. That is how Costa Rica got them to come here in the first place. Need I say more???? Wake up Costa Rica or lose big time, and I don’t think you can afford it. Art
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The rain put a damper on all sorts of activities. This was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Instituto de Desarrollo Agrario downtown Friday. But the weekend soccer games went on as scheduled. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The national weather institute said Sunday night that the current rainy conditions are expected to last until Wednesday. That is not good news for more than 300 persons in public shelters or those whose homes are in jeopardy below water-soaked mountain sides. Sunday's rain was accompanied by chilly weather in much of the country. In Santa Rosa, for example, in the north Pacific, the temperature hovered between 21 C. (about 70 degrees F) and 22.8 C (about 73 degrees F). But the worst part was the rain. The national emergency commission said that Guanacaste continues to be hit hard and that heavy rains also fell in the northern part of the Central Valley, including Grecia. Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Guanacaste got between 63 millimeters of rain (some 2.5 inches) up to 136.1 millimeters (5.3 inches) in Santa Rosa. The northern zone got 100 millimeters (3.9 inches) in 24 hours and 70 millimeters (2.76 inches) fell in just three hours on parts of the Caribbean coast late Sunday afternoon. Rivers continue to rise, said the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. There was concern about more flooding. The Ministerio de Obras Pública y Transportes said that most of the roads that had been closed by slides and other problems were open. The Caldera highway has been reduced in one place to a single lane because crews are still cleaning up a slide that closed the toll road over the weekend. The Consejo Nacional de Vialidad instituted telephone lines for the public where motorists could learn the condition of the highways. A Web page that usually carries that information is inactive. The numbers are 2202-5567 |
and 2202-5577. They are in service
from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. By Sunday night the Consejo said that only nine of an earlier 142 problem highways were still closed. Most highways were affected by slides, but several bridges were damaged or destroyed, too. The rainy week began as the result of a tropical depression in the Pacific. Then in the Caribbean another low pressure area developed. That system now is centered between the Yucatan peninsula of México and Florida, but the effects are being felt here. The Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias said that Guanacaste and the northern zone were getting the brunt with towns cut off and many areas flooded. Santa Cruz, Liberia, Carrillo in Guanacaste and Grecia, San Ramón, Alajuela and Mora were listed as being affected by flooding, slides and communities being isolated. There also is flooding lingering in Golfito. Shelters are there, in Puntarenas Centro, Poás, Santa Ana, San Ramón, Carrillo and Santa Cruz. The emergency commission has continued an alert for the Pacific coast and the Central Valley. Commission geologists inspected several landslide areas. They are Chitaría and Tapezco in Santa Ana, La Cascabela in Alajuelita, Burío in Aserrí and El Tablazo in Desamparados. As a result, the commission decided to evacuate six families in Desamparados. They were in a high-risk area. Another evacuation was being attempted in Salitral in Santa Ana. The commission sought to relocate 80 persons in Matinilla de Salitral de Santa Ana, but some would not leave their homes. Only 21 persons showed up at a shelter set up for that purpose in Piedades de Santa Ana. |
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The idea appears to be sound. Keep the drunks off the road by putting them on buses and bringing them around to local bars. That is the concept that put three buses on the road Saturday
Involved were the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia, the Instituto sobre Alcoholismo y Farmacodependencia, the Ministerio de Salud, the Policía de Control Fiscal, the Policía Municipal de San José, the Fuerza Pública, the Judicial Investigating Organization, the Policía de Tránsito, the security ministry's dog unit and a prosecutor assigned to juvenile cases. The police raid netted five girls who had entered the bar using fake or borrowed cédulas and three young men accused of selling marijuana. Police said they found 10 doses of marijuana. The marijuana was believed to have been found in a vehicle that was not one of the buses. It still is unclear if the five girls were passengers on the bus or arrived at the bar by their own means. Some were said to be drunk. The big law enforcement turnout appears to have been |
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One of three men detained early
Sunday is led awayy Seguridad Pública sparked by a tip that the event, organized under the name Mica Tours, was designed to transport underaged drinkers to the bars. However, on a Facebook page organizers clearly state that the event is only for adults. Individual organizers are identified as Daniel Chacón and Ariel LaFuente. Many of the participants are believed to be Universidad de Costa Rica students because advance ticket sales were made there. The country's drug czar, Mauricio Boraschi, issued a statement urging parents to keep better track of their children. Casa Presidencial said that the Ministerio de Salud ordered the bar to be closed because those in charge could not immediately find documents showing that they had all the permits. The police action appears to have ended the bar tour. Police said the bus drivers were ticketed for traffic infractions. The last stop was to be Club Gaira in Escazú. The tour also included a 4 a.m. breakfast. |
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| In Costa Rica, the occasional occupiers
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elsewhere . . . HERE!
In Costa Rica the movement is called the indignados, probably best
translated as the outraged ones.They gathered Saturday in the Plaza de la Cultura, each with their own personal gripes. There was dancing in a circle holding hands. There were the obligatory calls to action via a bull horn. And there were the quickly made signs, as well as some dusted off from the opposition to the free trade treaty with the United States. One man carried a sign saying he was against the elite, the U.S. dollar, masonic orders and Nazis, the latter probably not being of the World War II variety. Elsewhere in the world the occupiers are spending their days and nights in public areas. In Italy they caused an estimated $1.4 million in damages Saturday. But in Costa Rica, |
organizers are considering to
gather just once a week at the plaza. The media came in for some criticism. The daily Spanish newspaper was rechristened La Nazion by one protester. He also was against CIAcismo, a reference to the U.S. spy agency, also homophobia, sacred cows, individualism, capitalists and sadness. One sign bearer opposed vaccination. Capitalism was not dead. One woman held a sign offering to sell a finca with good climate. Former leftist lawmaker José Merino del Río spoke, and someone posted his words to the Web. He estimated the crowd at from 400 to 500. Others said about 200. Most were young with a sprinkling of older activists. He noted the movement is anti-capitalist and said that the goal was to construct a Costa Rica, humane, for the common good, and a society where everyone fits, including nature. |
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The Ballet Juvenil Costarricense is presenting “Peter Pan,” a ballet in two acts Saturday and Sunday. The ballet is based on the children's story, and the lead role of Peter will be filled by Solieh Samudio, lead dancer of the Ballet Nacional de Panamá. The Spirit Dance Academy of Panamá also is invited. The Pointé Centro de Danzas and the Ballet Academy from Costa Rica also is providing dancers. The Ballet Juvenil is the group that has presented “The Nutcracker” at Christmas for three years. The choreography was by Annia Rosales, director of the Ballet Juvenil. Expats might be interested in known that Captain Hook is called Capitán Garfio. Despite being in just two acts, the ballet includes the battle scene between Peter, Wendy, the lost boys and their opponents Capt. Hook and his pirate crew, said the Teatro Nacional, where the ballet is being staged. And there is the crocodile. |
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Hook and Peter again cross
swordsThe Saturday show is at 8 p.m., and the Sunday curtain rises at 11 a.m. Tickets range from 10,000 colons or about $20 to 5,000 colons or about $10. Plus there are discounts for children under 12. |
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Agrarian development unit marks its 50th anniversary By
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The Instituto de Desarrollo Agrario de Costa Rica celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Plaza de la Cultura, but the event was cut short because of intense rains. As part of the observance, President Laura Chinchilla called upon lawmakers to pass pending legislation to transform the institute and change its name to the Instituto de Desarrollo Rural. She said this new model would respond to current problems and the needs facing Costa Ricans in the rural areas. The agrarian government organization was established Oct. 14, 1961, via a law known as Ley de Tierras y Colonizacion. In the plaza organizers had a stage set-up and various tents representing the institute and other environmental friendly and free-trade organizations. The Instituto de Desarollo Agrario tents were filled with tropical plants, fruits and vegetables that are common of the country such as birds of paradise, ginger flowers, bananas, lychees, and kabocha squashes the size of a basketball, also known as calabaza. They were handing out free fruits and vegetables to attendees of the event. At the end many people also walked away with beautiful flowers ranging in various shades of pinks, oranges, reds and greens. Bandits shoot two in legs in separate Saturday crimes By
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A man in Calle Blancos suffered a bullet wound to the leg when he came to the aid of his wife who was being robbed in the family's parking area. The location is north of San José Centro. The Judicial Investigating Organization said that this happened about 8:30 p.m. Saturday after the woman returned home and opened the gates to the parking area. Two men on a motorcycle intruded and hit her on the head. The husband witnessed the events from inside the house and came out. That is when he was shot in the right leg. A 25-year-old man waiting for a bus a half hour later in Curridabat also suffered a bullet wound to the leg when bandits pulled up in a vehicle and pulled a gun on him and another would-be bus passenger. The man threw his cell phone at the bandits, agents said. Immigration agent says he was offered a bribe By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Immigration police said they found a Chinese woman working illegally at a bar in the center of Limón. But a man there compounded the problems when he offered police a bribe to let the woman go, said the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública. The man, also of Chinese heritage, was a legal permanent resident. But the woman lacked documents, said police. |
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