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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, Vol. 11, No. 225 | |||||||||
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residents, promote Web site By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Municipalidad de Belén is basking in the prestige of having taken top spot for its municipal Web page for the third year in a row. The municipality, which is west of San José, said it was honored by the Central American Institute of Business Administration, known as the INCAE Business School, for the Web page. The municipality is embarking on an informal opinion polling via the Web page and its Facebook location. Officials have set up a team to consider responses from the public to produce a report, officials said. At the same time the municipality will bring a promotional campaign to direct residents to the Web site where routine business can be conducted digitally. Telecom giant places one of its own at RACSA By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad has named the director of its international telecom negotiations division to be the new manager of its subsidiary, Radiográfica Costarricense S.A., the Internet provider. He is Orlando Cascante Moraga. He succeeds Alberto Bermúdez, who was described as holding the job on a temporary basis. The appointment is seen as an effort to end the conflicts between the company known as RACSA and its telecom parent. The parent firm provides Internet service, too, and employees at RACSA have always thought that the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad would like to absorb it. Environmentalists say plan dead for gulf tuna farming By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
An environmental group says that a plan to raise yellowfin tuna in cages in the Golfo Dulce has reached a dead end. The organization, the Programa Restauración de Tortugas Marinas said that the country's environmental agency said it no longer will consider a petition for the project. Granjas Atuneras de Golfito S.A. worked for seven years to get approval of the plan. The idea was to install 80 cages in the gulf and stock them with young tuna. As they grow they would have been harvested for mainly foreign markets. The shelving of the project request was by the Secretaria Tecnica National Ambiental in the Minsiterio de Ambiente, Energía y Telecomunicaciones. The Secretaria Tecnica has granted permission in 2004 and again in 2008, but the proposal was attacked heavily by residents along the south Pacific coast and environmentalists.
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| Six hunters believe to have confronted
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A group of hunters confronted Kimberley Ann Blackwell on the day she was murdered. Investigators have detained one of the group because he is believed to be the only person who carried a rifle. The woman suffered multiple injuries from what appears to have been a severe beating. But she also suffered a bullet wound. The Poder Judicial Friday confirmed that prosecutors believe she was confronted by at least six hunters before her death. There was no explanation why other persons have not been detained, although agents from the Judicial Investigation Organization office in Ciudad Neily did bring in and question others before they detained the man now identified as the murder suspect. |
All were targets of four
raids Thursday by agents. Prosecutors are expected to see preventative detention for the suspect, identified in A.M. Costa Rica's Friday story as Jorge Enrique Flores Rojas, 36. The murder happened on property owned by Ms. Blackwell in San Miguel de Cañaza near Puerto Jiménez. The area is rural and near Parque Nacional Corcovado. Ms. Blackwell had a long-running feud with illegal hunters who crossed her land to reach the park. The Poder Judicial said Friday that it was her conservationist attitude that was the motive for the killing. Ms. Blackwell was known as the operator of Samaritan Xocolata, which produced high-end chocolate items from Costa Rican cocao. |
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The proposal for an open pit gold mine in northern Costa Rica has taken a scandalous turn. The Poder Judicial has confirmed that an investigation has been launched because someone appears to have leaked a draft of a decision in the case by the Sala Primera high court. The Tribunal Contencioso Administrativo has annulled the agreement under which Industrias Infinito S.A. was to mine nearly a million ounces of gold. The project has been controversial since it was announced because of environmental concerns and, in part, because the parent company of the local firm is Canadian. The essence of the draft was not made public, but prosecutors are investigating. Only a limited number of persons in the Corte Suprema de Justicia had access to the document. |
This is the Crucitas mine case that
was supported strongly by former
president Óscar Arias Sánchez. The project ran into
problems because in
order to dig for the gold some protected trees will have to be felled. The case already has been before the Sala IV, which basically gave the project the go ahead. The Tribunal Contencioso Administrativo then faulted the process by which the government issued permits. The Sala Primera is hearing an appeal of that decision. Infinito said that Crucitas is evironmentally, economically and socially viable for Costa Rica. The firm in a release lamented the fact that the project has been frozen for three years. The company noted that the formal complaint was filed by Anabelle León, president of Sala Primera. The company said its parent firm was evaluating the impact of yet another delay and said that the firm was gathering information for a possible international arbitration. |
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A mandala, a Buddhist meditation
aid, was the centerpiece of the gathering that attracted many unique
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of the A.M. Costa Rica staff The Costa Rican indignados rallied at the Plaza de la Cultura Friday afternoon to call on their fellow countrymen to join their movement in condemning what is wrong with the country. More than 200 people assembled at the plaza and formed a circle around a mandala shaped as a flower. The flower represented life, love, and Mother Earth. At one point a man sat across from the flower and played the didgeridoo while indignantes spoke about their reason for being an indignante. The indignados movement started in Spain in response to the citizen's disappointment in many political and economical problems facing the country. It's a worldwide movement that has reached Costa Rica. Participants have said they believe they are everyone, united for change. Most have different reasons for joining the movement, but they all have in common the want for change in the country. They are not a spawn of the Occupy movement in the United States. |
Some people wore masks from
Anonymous, the feared international hacking
group. One man wore a neon green full-body jumper suit with a hooded
built-in mask. Another penned slogans on his body. Some of the posters read “No es una crisis es una estafa” (It's not a crisis,it's a fraud), “Unidos por el cambio sin miedo” (united for change without fear), “Calidad de vida para todos, Democracia real” (quality of life for all, real democracy) and “La Patria no se vende” (the country is not for sale). Many gatherers sat on the floor making posters, writing in chalk on the cement ground, making jewelry, and cheering on the speakers. Some of the reasons people said they were indignados are because of corrupt government, the mining, deforestation, killing of sharks, violence in Costa Rica, taxes, and the last election of Óscar Arias Sánchez. Friday was the informal group's second gathering. |
Tourist police and workers pitch in to clean small park By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A small park within sight of the Juan Santamaría airport control tower got a facelift Sunday. Police officers and workers at nearby businesses swept the small park for trash, plastic bottles and other garbage. The park can be the first place visitors see as they leave the airport, security ministry officials noted. This also is a location where sometimes horses can be seen being ridden by children as their parents enjoy a day off. The Policía Turística took credit for setting up the clean-up project. Volunteers came from local hotels, including Coconut House, Casa Tago and Villa Pacandé, said the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública. |
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Some of the trash was buried in
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| Death of Mexican official delays parley by leaders By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The North American Leaders' Summit that was to be held in Hawaii Sunday has been cancelled due to the death of a Mexican minister. Mexico's President Felipe Calderón was set to hold talks with U.S. President Barack Obama and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the two-day meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Honolulu. But Calderón cancelled after a helicopter crash Friday killed the interior minister, Francisco Blake Mora, and other Mexican government officials. The three leaders were scheduled to discuss North American competitiveness, including spurring job creation, greater trilateral regulatory co-operation, and energy efficiency and climate change. The cancellation of the North American summit could leave the Canadian leader without an opportunity to meet with President Obama on bilateral issues. One of them is the U.S. government's decision to delay a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, intended to carry oil from northern Alberta in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The project has been criticized by U.S. environmentalists. Canada and the U.S. are also looking to finalize the Beyond the Border initiative, a trade and security agreement designed to boost intelligence-sharing and prevent cross-border crime. President Calderón and his wife were among the government officials who attended Mora's public funeral in Mexico City Saturday afternoon. Police in Rio take over notorious hillside slum By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Brazilian authorities say police have taken control of the largest slum in Rio de Janeiro, which has been occupied by drug traffickers for decades. Hundreds of police invaded the notorious Rocinha as well as the nearby Vidigal slums early Sunday. The operation went off without any incidents or shots fired. Authorities had announced their planned takeover earlier in the week. Rocinha, a sprawling hillside community of about 100,000 people, lies near some of Rio's richest neighborhoods. Its central location has made it one of the city's main drug distribution points. Security forces have occupied 19 slums over the past three years as part of a police campaign to stabilize Rio's security before it hosts the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Brazilian officials say more than 1.5 million people in Rio de Janeiro live in 1,000 slums spread across the city. Major League player freed in Venezuelan operation By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. Major League Baseball player Wilson Ramos says he is thankful to be alive after being kidnapped in his home country of Venezuela. Venezuelan police rescued the 24-year-old Washington Nationals catcher Friday, two days after armed men abducted him from outside his home in the city of Valencia. Ramos told the media the forces who freed him in an exchange of gunfire did a great job. The athlete had not been seen or heard from since he was seized and taken away in a vehicle Wednesday night. He says his kidnappers held him in the mountains and told him little during the ordeal, but that he knew they were Colombian from their accents. Venezuelan officials say at least three people have been detained in connection with the kidnapping. They say Ramos was found in the mountainous region of Montalban and that President Hugo Chávez ordered the airborne rescue operation. The baseball star told Venezuela's Globovision television Saturday that his abductors had not harmed him physically, but had greatly hurt him psychologically. He said he would start playing baseball again as soon as he feels good. Ramos had recently returned to his homeland to play with his winter league team, the Aragua Tigers. Relatives of U.S. major league players have been kidnapped in Venezuela in recent years, but not players themselves. |
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three years, four months By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Six men who were convicted of eight violent robberies in the Nicoya area received prison terms of three years and four months each. The sentence came in the Tribunal Penal de Santa Cruz. The men were identified by the last names of lanco Gutiérrez, Duarte Gómez, Sequeira Rodríguez, Navarro Ruíz, Arce Vargas and Díaz Gutiérrez. They were detained in October 2010 as police believed they were about to pull off another robbery in Santa Cruz. The men were described as being members of a gang calls Los Nijas. When the men were detained, judicial agents and police found a number of weapons and ammunition. Tourism report predicts more U.S. European visits Special
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United States tourists will gradually start visiting Europe in larger numbers despite the downward revision of the economic outlook in the United States, according to a report released last week by the United Nations agency promoting responsible and sustainable tourism. The study, prepared by the U.N. World Tourism Organization and the European Travel Commission on U.S. outbound travel and presented at the World Travel Market event in London, points out that “although U.S. travelers to Europe tend to be more financially resilient than many, they are still keen on finding value for money at every turn.” “Although the industry’s focus has turned towards emerging markets like the BRIC countries we should not forget Europe’s most significant market, the U.S.A.,” said Petra Hedorfer, the European Travel Commission president. The reference was to Brazil, Russia, India and China, “In 2010, Europe attracted 11 million U.S. citizens, a figure expected to rise in the future. It is therefore our duty to strengthen Europe’s image as an exciting and dynamic destination in spite of economic turmoil and changing consumer interests.” Taleb Rifai, the world tourism secretary general, said that with $75 billion in expenditure on travel abroad last year, the United States remains the world’s second most important source market for tourists. “Europe, traditionally one of the preferred destinations for U.S. citizens, should remain well-informed of this market and identify emerging trends. |
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