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José, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, Vol. 16, No. 228
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Police union
opposes inmate release
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The nation's public employee umbrella organization says it will bring a case against the justice ministry to prevent the release of some 1,000 prison inmates. The organization is the Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos y Privados. Among its member unions is the one that represents the officers in the Fuerza Pública. The organization said it would bring a case in the Tribunal Contencioso Administrativo against the Ministerio de Justicia y Paz to prevent the release. Mainor Anchía Angulo, president of the Fuerza Pública section, was quoted in a statement saying that releasing the inmates is an irresponsible act, particularly at a time when the country is experiencing insecurity, violence and criminality. The Justice ministry says that the inmates are non-violence offenders who have completed a percentage of their sentence. The ministry is under court order to reduce overcrowding.  Ministerio de Seguridad Pública
photo
These are some of the
members of the special unit.Special
unit contains 500 officers
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Ministerio de Seguridad Pública said Tuesday that it has created a special unit of 500 officers with the job of sweeping neighborhoods that are high in crime and drugs. The ministry said that the special unit had confiscated 39 weapons and detained 46 persons since it was created Oct. 1. Nearly 20,000 persons have been stopped and questioned during the same period, said the ministry. The principal focus are areas where drugs are sold, the ministry said. Motorcycle toll highest in first 10 months By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
From January through Oct. 31, 55 persons died in automobile accidents, a far fewer number than the 117 who died in motorcycle mishaps. The traffic police released the statistics Tuesday. There also were 63 pedestrians who died during the same period. In 49 of the pedestrian deaths, police blamed the victim for such acts as crossing a major highway or crossing against a traffic light. The police agency noted that in many cases, the pedestrian could have used one of the special bridges that have been constructed for that purpose. Police also said that more than half of the 35 persons who died while traveling on a bicycle had made some blunder, including being drunk. Grim discovery by murder victim's dad By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A father made a grim discovery when he dug through some disturbed earth at a home where his daughter lived. The location was Barrio Camarenos in Santa Cruz. Judicial investigators said that the man found the buried body of his 17-year-old daughter, identified by the last name of Álvarez. Agents said that the girl was living in a home near that of the father. She lived with her 18-year-old boyfriend. She had not been seen since Sunday, so the father went to investigate Tuesday morning. That is when he made the discovery in the patio of the home, they said. Many are unaware HIV carriers, study says By the University of London news staff
Academics from Royal Holloway, University of London, have carried out the largest global review of psychological barriers behind HIV testing and the factors that may influence people’s decision to be tested. The findings, published in the leading journal, AIDS and Behavior, reveal fear about HIV and HIV testing is one of the biggest barriers to testing. More than half of the 35 million people infected with HIV have not been diagnosed. Michael Evangeli from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, who led the study, said: “Our research shows it is imperative that more is done to reduce the fear of HIV and HIV testing to increase the amount of people being tested. A test for HIV, which can now be done in private at home, is necessary to receive HIV treatment and care. The earlier this can be done helps to reduce the onward transmission of HIV. The fact that HIV is treatable needs to be stressed.” One quarter of the over 100,000 HIV positive people in the United Kingdom, do not know that they are infected, the researchers said. As well as not having access to the right care and treatment people living with HIV are at risk of spreading the condition further, they added. |
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| 1,600 Cubans remain stranded and living in government
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
One reason there are some 1,600 Cubans stranded in Costa Rica is because the United States affords special treatment to migrants from that country. Rightly or wrongly the Cubans here expect to be able to enter the United States easily if they can reach the border. The Cuban Adjustment Act, passed at the height of the Cold War, outlines the special treatment and even provides permanent residence for Cuban migrants who end up on public assistance. At present Costa Rican officials are emphasizing their humanitarian efforts to help the migrants. The country allowed the migrants to enter with the expectation that they would travel into Nicaragua on their trip north. But Nicaragua has closed its border to the Cubans. There is a lot of speculation why Nicaragua did this because it is a close ally to the Cuban regime. Some Cubans continue to infiltrate that country through the porous border. Some have been returned by Nicaragua police and military. The national emergency commission said that 700 persons are in five shelters in La Cruz, Guanacaste. Meanwhile there is some criticism of the government effort. Some leftist commentators defended the actions by Nicaragua and said that Costa Rica should deport the Cubans back to Panamá. The migrants are following a |
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Another day at a shelter in
La Cruzwell-worn trail from Ecuador, which allows Cuban visitors, through Colombia and Panamá. The Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias is in charge of the shelter efforts. It said that about 650 other Cubans are in other temporary shelters. Many of the Cubans are young men who might better be characterized as economic migrants who would be seeking jobs in the United States. They are likely to present themselves to U.S. border agents as political refugees. Some expats have been critical of the Cubans, too, calling them illegal immigrants. Diplomatic efforts are being continued by Costa Rica officials to figure out some way the Cubans can continue on their way. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Sports fishing enthusiasts will have the chance to participate in four events next year. The Los Sueños Triple Crown will once again take place in three editions. The first is Jan. 20 to 23 at the central Pacific location. Others start Feb. 24 and March 30, according to HRG Vacations & Rentals at Los Sueños. The firm said that in the last two annual tournaments an average of 5,400 fish were released in just nine days each year. There was an average of 39 boats and up to 55 fish per boat, the firm added. The Presidential Challenge Charitable Foundation announced a tournament based at Flamingo July 30 and 31. “We’re going back to the basics with this tournament,” says foundation founder Joan Vernon in a release. “It’s time we |
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and family back into sport fishing, as well as a more focused appeal to
the charter boat angler.” She said the tournament’s mission statement is to publicize Flamingo as the fishing destination that it used to be by helping charter captains book clients to fish this event. It will also create an increased awareness of Flamingo and the northern Pacific region of Costa Rica as a world class fishing destination, she added. “It’s been very exciting to work with the charter captains as well as the business owners in Flamingo, many of whom have been friends of mine for many many years,” Ms. Vernon says. This event will offer a minimal entry fee of $600 for a team of up to six anglers, and will have minimal rules, she said. The proceeds will benefit marine conservation in Costa Rica and the local charity, Abriendo Mentes. She said sponsorships are being sought. |
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| Medical association votes to ban direct drug advertising to
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The country's largest doctors group has voted for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices. The American Medical Association said Tuesday at a meeting in Atlanta that such ads on television and radio and in magazines drive a demand for expensive pills and medicines when less costly generic drugs are just as effective. "Today's vote in support of an advertising ban reflects concerns among physicians about the negative impact of commercially driven promotions and the role that marketing costs play in fueling escalating drug prices," said AMA board chair-elect Patrice Harris. "Direct-to-consumer advertising |
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demand for new and more expensive drugs, even
when these drugs may not be appropriate." The AMA said the United States and New Zealand are the only two countries that promote drugs directly to patients. It said U.S. drug companies spend $4.5 billion a year selling their products. But doctors say the cost of promoting the medicines and treatments can make prescriptions too expensive overall and puts patient health at risk. The AMA is recommending that the federal government limit what it calls anti-competitive behavior by large pharmaceutical houses that doctors say reduces choice and limits much cheaper but still highly effective generic drugs from reaching the market. |
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European intelligence units study what they had missed By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
In the wake of the Paris attacks, wary and overstretched European intelligence services are asking themselves what more they can do to prevent the kind of terrorism that struck the French capital. The information emerging about the planning of the attacks and those involved is raising the question of why France's security services missed the plot, why they overlooked militants they had already identified, and why, along with their counterparts in neighboring Belgium, they failed to interdict some of the militants on their return from Syria. The intelligence services admit that out of a terror network they believe included 24 people, five were returning fighters from Syria. In Belgium, a parliamentary committee overseeing the country’s security services has launched an inquiry into intelligence failings leading up to the Paris terror rampage. The Islamic State attackers used Belgium as as their forward staging area, presumably because the intelligence services there are even shorter of resources than those in France. “It appears the terrorists managed to evade the intelligence radar and the police. The question now is to know what more we can do,” said Stefaan Van Hecke, a lawmaker with Belgium's Green party. French politicians also are voicing increasing frustration at what some are dubbing France’s Pearl Harbor, likening Friday’s simultaneous attacks to the sneak 1941 Japanese bombing of the U.S. naval base at Hawaii, which was also preceded by intelligence failures. Others see Friday’s attacks as France’s 9/11, both in psychological and intelligence terms. Official inquiries after the attacks in Washington and New York 14 years ago also concluded that overwhelmed security and law enforcement agencies failed to pick up a gathering conspiracy. “What we know is that most of these people came back from Syria and nobody stopped them,” said Nathalie Goulet, a member of the French Senate foreign and defense committee. For several months Ms. Goulet, a centrist lawmaker who chaired a commission of inquiry into jihadist networks, has voiced anger at the continued presence in France of foreign fundamentalist Sunni preachers who she says act as recruiters. She has regularly warned of the rising risks of a catastrophic attack. Ms. Goulet, however, said she is shocked by the scale of Friday’s shootings and bombings and the high level of sophistication behind them. She acknowledges the French security services have a huge challenge when it comes to resources and what the laws permit in a liberal democracy, noting that in Normandy alone, more than 300 potentially highly dangerous jihadists have been identified. “They are reported, tracked, but you cannot put a policeman behind each of them,” she says. “Especially since being reported to be in the process of radicalization does not make you a criminal.” Ms. Goulet is, however, critical of the temporary nature of the surveillance and how quickly suspected militants can be dropped from the lists of militants. She argues the French security services should maintain a permanent file of people who had a link with terrorist organizations much as the police do when it comes to sex offenders who are stuck permanently on file. Several of last Friday’s attackers were known to French intelligence, with dossiers identifying them as security risks. The man French intelligence has named as the mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, had already been identified as an accomplice of two jihadists who were killed in a shootout at a jihadist safe house in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers in January. A Belgian of Moroccan origin, Abaaoud has been on the run ever since, also spending time fighting in Syria. In a February issue of the online Islamic State magazine Dabiq, Abaaoud, who uses also the nom de guerre Abu Umar al-Baljiki, boasted about how he could operate in plain sight in Belgium and never get caught. He recounted how on one occasion he had been stopped by police, but they failed to recognize him and let him go. One of the attackers last Friday at the Stade de France, Ismael Omar Mostefai, was suspected of having become a radical in 2010. He went to Syria in 2013 and returned to France in early 2014. While Turkish authorities said they warned Paris about Mostefai in December 2014 and this past June, no action was taken. “We did not, however, hear back from France on the matter. It was only after the Paris attacks that the Turkish authorities received a request for information" on Mostefai, a Turkish official told Al Jazeera. Samy Amimour, another of the gunmen, was detained in October 2012 on suspicion of terrorist links but jumped parole, traveled to Syria, and returned unobserved to France in mid-October of last year. Turkey is not the only country that said it sent warnings to France about a possible big attack being planned. Senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press they had also warned of an imminent attack. However, French officials insist these warnings lacked detail. French and Belgian intelligence officials say the plotters were especially careful in how they communicated electronically to avoid eavesdropping, using Sony PlayStation 4 among other devices to exchange messages. Even so, Belgium Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said European intelligence agencies collectively missed connecting the dots, adding that they must start sharing and exchanging information on known suspects more efficiently. In a rare speech Monday to both houses of the French parliament, President Francois Hollande focused on border controls, saying he will ask his European Union counterparts Friday for a suspension of the Schengen agreement, the EU treaty that abolished border checks among most European countries. For months now, activists, who run their own informal intelligence networks, have spoken about how difficult it is to pass information to Western intelligence services. Ahmad Abdulkader, who runs the activist network Eye on the Homeland, said in May that Western intelligence services, including those of French and the United States, have done little to exploit valuable intelligence from more than 100 Islamic State defectors, whom activists helped flee Raqqa. Abdulkader said that among the defectors were two security operatives and the bodyguard of a significant player in the terror group. The activists have debriefed them, securing what their leader describes as very important information. U.S. Congress rejects plan for boosting green power By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The Republican-led U.S. Senate rejected the centerpieces of President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda less than two weeks before the start of a U.N. climate change conference in Paris. The Senate passed a resolution disapproving the president’s Clean Power Plan, and another disapproving limits on carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. Neither is likely to have much practical effect. “The Obama administration is trying to impose deeply regressive energy regulations that would eliminate good paying jobs,” said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who represents coal-rich Kentucky. “If the administration’s Clean Power Plan moves forward, hardship will be felt all across the country,” said Republican Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, another coal producing state. “Fewer job opportunities, higher power bills and less reliable electricity will result.” Democrats countered that the health and well-being of Americans and humanity as a whole are at stake. “We’re here to protect lives. We’re here to protect the planet,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, a Democrat. The Clean Power Plan aims to dramatically boost U.S. energy production from wind, solar and other green sources and, over time, reduce the nation’s reliance on carbon-based power. Backers say nixing the plan could torpedo hopes for a global commitment to fight climate change at the Paris conference. “We are one of the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide on the planet,” said Democrat Tom Carper of Delaware. “We need to lead by our example. It’s not ‘do what we say’ but rather ‘do what we do.’” The issue is not strictly partisan. Several Democrats from coal and natural gas producing states have joined Republicans in opposing the Obama administration’s efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. With bipartisan backing, the resolutions of disapproval had ample support to clear the Senate with simple majority votes. The House of Representatives is expected to approve identical measures, meaning the resolutions are all but certain to reach Obama’s desk. But presidential vetoes also are a foregone conclusion, and neither chamber has the two-thirds backing that would be required to override them. Given that reality, some Democrats questioned the rationale and the timing of the resolutions. The annual U.N. climate conference begins Nov. 30 in Paris and will bring together representatives of nearly 200 nations. The gathering aims to produce a universal and legally binding accord to reduce global carbon emissions and slow the warming of the planet. Minnesota protesters face charges in shooting case By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Forty-two people were arrested in Minnesota during a second day of protests over the shooting of an unarmed black man by police. Hundreds of demonstrators shut down a major highway for several hours Monday night to protest the shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, in north Minneapolis. Local media said the protesters faced misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly and being pedestrians on a freeway. A spokesperson for Black Lives Matter reported that everyone had been booked and released. Clark was shot during an altercation with police after a domestic dispute at a party. He died a day later at a hospital. Authorities have released few details about the Sunday night incident, angering many who say he was handcuffed at the time of the shooting. Police said preliminary information showed that he was not handcuffed. Caffeine found in nectar reported as lure for bees By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Researchers in Britain have discovered that certain plants actually produce caffeine to attract bees and help in pollination. Scientists at the University of Sussex said they thought the plants produce the caffeine in their nectar to fool bees into thinking it contains more sugar than it actually does. The insects will repeatedly visit those flowers, helping the plants maximize pollination. Francis Ratnieks, a professor of apiculture at the university, said bees communicate by moving their abdomens a certain way — or, as he calls it, dancing. He said the caffeine increases that dancing. In their experiments, Ratnieks and his colleagues used two artificial flowers that contained sucrose and water, and one contained caffeine as well. "The one with caffeine attracted more bees," he said, and "the bees who were foraging made more dances, about four times as many dances." Identification numbers were glued to those bees exposed to caffeine, and the bees were then sent back to the hive. Those bees' dances then influenced the behavior of others in the hive, and many bees were directed to revisit sites where caffeinated nectar had been found, even after the feeder ran dry. The scientists theorized that plants use caffeine to manipulate bees in a way that is good for the plant, but not so good for the bees. The caffeine, they said, tricks bees into thinking that the nectar is of a higher quality and has more sugar than it really does. The scientists said the research has been a reminder that although plants and pollinators depend on one another, their interests can conflict. Texan wrongly convicted now campaigns for change By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Anthony Graves was convicted in 1994 in Texas of murdering a woman, her daughter and her four grandchildren. Later proven to be innocent, Graves spent many years in prison, including 12 years on death row waiting to be executed for a crime he did not commit. “You took 18 years of my life,” he said, referring to the Texas criminal justice system. “You tried to murder me and I want to stay in your face every day to remind you that we need to do better.” Graves has used some of the $1.5 million he was awarded by the state of Texas for his wrongful imprisonment to further the cause of reforming the criminal justice system. There have been 1,700 people exonerated in the United States since 1989, according to the registry kept by Michigan State University Law School. The Innocence Project, a non-profit group that helps investigate cases in which wrongful conviction is suspected, cites 333 cases since 1989 in which DNA tests resulted in exoneration. The racial breakdown from that figure was 206 African Americans, 101 Caucasians, 24 Latinos and two Asian Americans. The former Texas death row inmate says many of the problems in the criminal justice system across the United States affect people of all races, especially if they are poor. Graves, who is black, spent more than 18 years in the Texas prison system. The 49-year-old said inequality is the biggest problem. Poor people, regardless of color, cannot afford the best defense attorneys, he noted, and often are pressured by police and prosecutors to take a plea bargain for a lower sentence rather than face many years in prison. While this practice reduces the need for full jury trials and is seen by prosecutors as more efficient, it also can result in innocent people with inadequate representation and little knowledge of the legal system pleading guilty to crimes they did not commit. Graves wants citizens to use their power in the democratic system to seek criminal justice reform. “We can do it. We have the power to do it,” he said. Graves travels the country using his own personal story to illustrate what he calls the injustice of the justice system. “I use my story to educate people,” said Graves, “but more importantly, keep it on people’s minds about the injustice that is going on in our criminal justice system.” The court in Burleson County, Texas, convicted Graves in 1994. Six years later, the chief witness against him recanted his testimony. Graves was still in prison, though, when law professor David Dow brought the case to Nicole Casarez, an attorney and professor of journalism at the University of St. Thomas. “He came into class one day and said, ‘Who wants to work on a case that is a death row case, and it has a lot of investigation and a short time fuse,” said the professor. “And my students and I put up our hands and volunteered and it turned out to be Anthony’s case.” In 2010, the work done by Ms. Casarez, her students and others paid off with the release of Graves from prison and a declaration of his innocence. In June, the State Bar of Texas disbarred the district attorney who prosecuted Graves after its investigation of the case uncovered misconduct. The problems Graves sees are the same ones cited by many criminal justice experts and law enforcement leaders, including disparities in sentencing between blacks and whites, the imprisonment of people with mental illness or drug addictions, an increase in the number of infractions that can result in someone being jailed and mandatory minimum sentences for some crimes. Both Graves and Ms. Casarez are encouraged by the interest in criminal justice system reform on college campuses and by what appears now to be largely a bipartisan effort. The two major political parties agree on little else these days. “I think stories like Anthony’s make a big impression on students and it inspires them to go out and vote and try to make a difference,” said Ms. Casarez. For his part, Graves expresses little bitterness about his lost years, saying he is more concerned with the future than the past. Although he came close to being executed for a crime he did not commit, he has not made the death penalty the main focus of his call for reforms. He and Ms. Casarez also spoke of problems with the alternative sentence of life in prison, which excludes any legal representation after it is imposed. They say it also is possible that some innocent people are serving life sentences and have no access to attorneys who could help them appeal their convictions. |
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Ciudad Colon
library to mark 30 years
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Conceived as a place to present lectures, foster creativity and meet people, the Public Library of Ciudad Colón will celebrate its 30th anniversary next Saturday with a full series of activities and contests for children, teenagers and adults. The birthday party will start at 9 a.m. and run until 3 p.m. at the Library. The Library serves 1,400 users per month, and presents 30 activities per month from classes in computers, English, Portuguese and Italian, and workshops for writers, artists, a club of lectures, among other activities. “The Public Library of Ciudad Colon is a place to learn, read, write, train. This is a library open to the public. And all of the services offered are free of charge supported by the community,” said the director, Jenny Diaz D. The celebration will be opened by the municipal mayor, Gilbert Monge, and then the library is scheduled to recognize Flor Zumbado Monge, who was the first professional librarian contracted by the government and who later assumed the directorship of the institution. Also library workers will present 25 senior citizens who participated in the writing of the “Huellas de Oro” (Footprints of Gold) recalling their memories of Canton de Mora. At 10 a.m. the Casa de la Cultura will present a dance from its Artistic Department and the rest of the day there will be many activities such as a painting contest, a workshop of and a contest of masks, story telling, exhibit and Sale of Crafts, a photo exhibit, an exhibit of classic and antique books and book trade-offs, face painting, food and natural drinks. The contestants will receive awards. The activities will close with a recital of poetry by invited local poets. Sea Shepherd figures in whaling case Special to A.M. Costa Rica
An affidavit provided by a Sea Shepherd captain, Peter Hammarstedt, was submitted as evidence in a contempt case against a Japanese whaling company. The evidence has helped the court to issue a $1 million fine to the whalers. The firm is Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd. which was in the Australian Federal Court in Sydney, Australia. In 2008, Humane Society International successfully obtained a declaration in the federal court that the firm was breaking Australian law by killing whales in Antarctica under the guise of scientific research. The society also obtained an injunction ordering the company to stop killing whales in the Australian whale sanctuary. Despite the injunction, the Japanese whaling fleet has continued to slaughter whales in the protected waters of the Southern Ocean, the court found. In his statement, Hammarstedt recounted an incident that occurred during Sea Shepherd’s 2013-14 Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign, Operation Zero Tolerance. Hammarstedt, who was captain of the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker at the time, said he witnessed the slaughter of a protected Minke whale by the Japanese whaling fleet inside the Australian whale sanctuary, 60 nautical miles from the Australian managed Davis Base. |
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| From Page 7: Higher U.S. inflation may bring rate rise By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A key measure of U.S. inflation rose slightly in October, boosting the chances the central bank will raise interest rates soon. A government report says prices gained two-tenths of 1 percent in September. Apart from energy and food, sectors with volatile price changes, U.S. consumer prices rose 1.9 percent over the past year, close to the Federal Reserve's target of 2 percent. Experts say a modest and consistent rate of inflation allows families and companies to better plan purchases of homes and equipment, which facilitates economic growth. Fed officials have said they want to see inflation rise a little before they boost interest rates. They are widely expected to raise the key rate in mid-December from the record low level where it has been since the financial crisis. The idea behind lowering interest rates that reduced borrowing costs would bolster economic growth. Now that unemployment has fallen from 10 percent to 5, some economists say the emergency stimulus measure is no longer needed. They say raising the rate will give the Fed room to stimulate the economy again when the next downturn hits. A separate report said the U.S. manufacturing sector rose a brisk four-tenths of a percent in October, after falling the prior month. Manufacturing has been hampered by slowing demand in foreign markets. The strong dollar also hurts U.S. exports, including manufactured goods, by making them more expensive and less competitive on global markets |
