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 Anti-drug policemen put some of the haul confiscated near Barranca early Saturday on an airplane for transport to San José. Municipal worker
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after truck yields cocaine By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Anti-drug police stopped a government vehicle near Barranca early Saturday and found nearly 2,500 pounds of cocaine wrapped in one-kilo packages. The two-ton vehicle is the property of the Instituto Costarricense de Puertos del Pacifico, but that agency said the vehicle was on loan to the Municipalidad de Puntarenas to be used for the collection of garbage on the beaches. Two men were detained. One, identified by the last names of Reyes Alpizar, works for the municipality, said the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública. Also held was a man with the last names of Gómez Naranjo. Bloody scene discovered at Escazú condominium By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A woman died and two persons suffered serious knife wounds Sunday at a condominium in Trejos Montealegre, Escazú. All three were found slashed in the parking garage of the condo when Cruz Roja workers arrived about 5 p.m. Rescue crews had been alerted by neighbors. Police could not say immediately what had happened. The two survivors, both men, were described in very critical condition at Hospital San Juan de Dios. The trio were described as young people, perhaps in their 20s. The condominium complex is named Calahonda, and it is a gated facility with guard posts. Mandatory insurance set to increase about 8.59% By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Mandatory automobile insurance is going up. The Contraloría General de la República has approved an average of 8.59 per cent higher rates for the coverage provided by the Instituto Nacional de Seguros. However, for passenger cars the increase is just 4.54 percent. This is the insurance that is included in the marchamo that is payable during December. Owners of passenger cars who paid 12,890 colons last year will pay 13,475 or about $26. Buses sustained the biggest increase, some 22.4 percent, going from 78,850 to 96,510 or about $185.50. Small buses of the type used in tourism work will go from 54,410 to 66,665, an average of 22.52 percent. But that is only for five passengers. Each additional passenger, based on the capacity of the vehicle, will be assessed 635 colons additional, an increase of 22.12 percent. Mandatory insurance is very basic and most expats also purchase additional coverage. Immigration figures sent to prison for three months By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Two former immigration employees and a current worker have been sent to prison for three months while an investigation takes place into bribery, conspiracy and computer sabotage allegations. These were the three detained early Thursday. The Poder Judicial said that a judge authorized the pretrial detentions. The current employee is a woman with the last name of Chacón. The former employees are a man with the name Aguirre and a woman with the name Morales. Investigators say they used their positions and computer access to award illicit residencies to foreigners who paid up to $10,000 each. Phone work will cause some problems at first By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The telephone company said it will be updating its cell phone bases so that the system can accommodate 300,000 new lines. However, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad said that cell phone service will be spotty because of the work. The company said it would do the bulk of the work during non-peak hours. The company is supposed to make available the 300,000 lines shortly after Christmas.
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Rains took a big bite out of the Interamericana and the only
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Transport officials are bridging a gigantic washout of the Interamericana Sur with a prefabricated metal bridge. The work is at La Cangreja where hundreds of tons of hillside and roadway washed into the valley below. Counting the bridge and the fill necessary to fix the gap, the ministry will spend about $675,000. Workmen are installing pilings to give more stability to the structure, which will be open to passenger vehicles as well as trucks, the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transporte said. Nearly a half million cubic feet of fill will be needed to make a premanent fix to the washed-out roadbed. In the meantime, the metal bridge will have to do. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The country is not out of the woods yet. Tropical Storm Noel is north of Cuba, but the effects of the storm are bringing heavy rain to the south Pacific and the Caribbean coast, according to the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. The southwest part of the country has been getting hit by heavy rains since Friday. An alert is in effect for there now, and the national emergency commission issued a special alert Saturday at midday. There is extensive flooding in some areas there. Some homes were flooded out and some areas had waist-high water. The tropical storm, which may soon become a |
hurricane, is moving
north-northwest in the
direction of Florida. Other sections beside the Osa Peninsula, Golfito and Buenos Aires in the south felt heavy weather this weekend. San Carlos still is trying to recover from the flooding of the Río Platanares in Barrio San Roques. At least 12 homes were flooded out Wednesday and Thursday. Sunday the rains hit San Joaquín de Flores in Heredia when the Río Quebrada Seca flowed out of its banks. The weather institute predicts continued rain in the south and in the Caribbean coast this morning with afternoon showers becoming more generalized. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The canton of Aguirre is in fiesta mode until Nov. 5 celebrating its founding 59 year ago. This is the canton that contains Quepos. Tuesday there is a band parade and floats representing the districts of the canton, and Wednesday through the weekend various hotels in the area will host the Festival de Cina Español y Costarricense with movies at 3 and 7 p.m. |
The events have been organized by
the Municipalidad de Aguirre, the
Comisión de Asuntos Culturales de Aguirre, the Spanish Embassy
and the
Oficina Regional de Cultura del Pacífico, with the support of
the
Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes. In case anyone wonders where the canton got its name, the culture ministry said that the purpose was to honor Rolando Aguirre Lobo, who was an important figure in the 1948 revolution. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner appears to have won Argentina's presidential election. Ms. Fernández appeared in Buenos Aires Sunday evening after early official returns and exit polls indicated she will succeed her husband in office and become Argentina's first democratically elected woman president. With nearly 59 percent of the vote counted, Ms. Fernández had 43.9 percent. Former lawmaker Eliso Carrió had 21.9 percent Former economy minister Roberto Lavagna had 18.2 percent. The percentages had been constant most of the evening as more and more districts reported. The headlines in today's major newspaper there said that Ms. Fernández had won. Calrín, the leading newspaper, said that her margin was substantial and correctly pointed out that she would govern until 2011. |
Surveys of Argentines who had
already cast their ballots projected Ms.
Fernández would win up to 46 percent of the vote — more than
enough to
avoid a second-round. The 54-year-old, three-term senator entered the campaign this year after her husband, President Nestor Kirchner, announced he is stepping aside after one term in office. Ms. Fernández says she will continue Kirchner's policies, which revived Argentina's economy after its collapse in 2001. Electoral law in Argentina calls for a runoff vote if neither of two sets of conditions are met: a victorious presidential candidate must either have 45 percent of the vote, or a 40-percent showing combined with a 10-percentage-point lead over the nearest challenger. Argentines also voted Sunday for provincial governors, members of both houses of the legislature and local spots. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. security officials are warning of terrorist plans to hide bomb components in shoes. The CBS television network has obtained a copy of the warning, issued Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. The general terrorism-related awareness notice was prompted by the discovery in Europe last month of a pair of shoes used to smuggle electric blasting caps across international borders. The thick soles of the shoes were hollowed out to hide the caps. The U.S. warning notes that standard visual inspection of the shoes would probably have missed the contraband. The |
report notes that while
all footwear at U.S. airports must go through an x-ray machine, many
other nations have no such requirement. The FBI and Homeland Security Department add that there is no specific, credible intelligence that terrorists plan to use the tactic in the United States. In December 2001, shortly after the September 11th attacks, would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight with explosives concealed in his shoes. The al Qaida operative was tackled by fellow passengers as he tried repeatedly to light a fuse attached to one shoe. He is now serving a life sentence at a U.S. maximum security prison. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Veneuzela's attorney general says members of the country's intelligence police, national guard, and civil aviation sector are involved in drug trafficking or allowing it to take place. The Washington Post Sunday published comments from Attorney General Isaias Rodríguez in a report that says Colombian drug lords are using Venezuela as a transit point for cocaine shipments bound for the United States and Europe. The newspaper says Rodríguez described the corruption as isolated. But, it says he acknowledged his office is investigating officials who are suspected of giving |
government identification cards to
drug traffickers, or providing them with them protection. The Post reports that hundreds of tons of Colombian cocaine have passed through Venezuela and that northbound drug flights out of Venezuela tripled between 2003 and 2006. The Venezuelan attorney general told the newspaper he has fired 23 prosecutors and 150 judges tainted by the drug trade. Saturday, the British Defense Ministry said a navy warship had seized three tons of cocaine from a Venezuelan fishing boat in the Atlantic. |
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