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favors being in Costa Rica Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I often read in A.M. Costa Rica how many people feel Costa Rica has become an expensive place to live. And that may well be so, depending on where in the world one is drawing a comparison. My wife and I happen to provide a perfect real-time laboratory of an expense comparison. Every year we split our time almost exactly 50/50 between two very beautiful parts of the world; our house about an hour outside San Francisco, California, and our house on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. In California our 1,500-square foot house sits on a 1/3 acre lot nestled in the redwoods. We have two cars in California, both more than 10 years old. In Costa Rica our 2,700-square foot house sits on a 5-acre lot overlooking the Pacific Ocean. We also have two older vehicles in Costa Rica, both 4WD of necessity. I just analyzed our living expenses in selected categories going back over five years. Of the total in each expense category I computed the percentage spent in California vs. the percentage spent in Costa Rica. The table below lists the results: Hmm. Maybe things are not quite so bad here after all. Robert Irwin
Costa Rica and California  Traditional bull baiting brings call for boycott Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I am leaving Costa Rica this afternoon with a sad heart. I am traveling with a group of 18 tourist that have been here for a week. We were taken to the festival in Palmares for our last day in Costa Rica. We attended what we thought was a rodeo Costa Rican style! We were appalled to see the horrible treatment of the animals in the name of "rodeo". The bulls were kicked, spit on, hit with bottles, prodded by electric prods when they became tired of chasing drunken idiots around the ring. They had their heads tied to the fence as they were tortured with no way of escape. This type of behavior by humans on animals is disgraceful and unacceptable. The people of Costa Rica should be ashamed to allow this to happen. It is an indication of the mind set of the people of Costa Rica and as long as they allow things like this to happen to defenseless animals, they will continue to be a third or fourth world country. We urge President Arias to lead the way to prevent this type of torture as he did when he championed the peace accord and human rights. One of our fellow travelers is an executive of Coca Cola in Atlanta and he was surprised that Coke would allow their company to be associated with the sponsorship of such a horrific exhibition of animal cruelty!!. We have sent videos of these events to Coke so that they can see their name associated with this event. We are calling on all animal lovers worldwide to boycott Coca Cola, Bank Costa Rica, Imperial Beer and their associated brands. Videos have been posted on U Tube calling for an international boycott of Costa Rica by tourists until this inhumane treatment ceases. We will not stop making this effort until we have assurance that the Costa Rican government does something about this terrible act!! We leave Costa Rica with a heavy heart and thoughts of those poor animals. Shame on you Costa Rica Otton Garcia
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| San José, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 12 | |||||||||
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Tico rescuers are told not to
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Costa Rica rescue workers along with 43 missions from other countries were ordered to stay in their quarters Monday because of the growing unrest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some residents of the stricken capital city are adopting mob rule as they sack food trucks and loot. Security officers, some of them United Nations peacekeepers, had to use riot sticks and shields as well as tear gas to control the crowd. The chaos is said to be growing. The Costa Rica team managed to recover 10 bodies from the wreckage caused by Tuesday's earthquake before being called off the streets, said the national emergency commission here that is in radio contact. The rescue brigade first worked over the weekend at the collapsed telecommunications center in Haiti. Haitians said they heard voices coming from the structure at night but the Costa Rican team was not able to locate any survivors. Sunday the team went into a residential neighborhood along with workers from Puerto Rico, the emergency commission said. During the morning and until 3 p.m. the team was able to survey 176 structures and recover 10 bodies from the wreckage, the commission said. The Costa Rican team has its own security, but it also was protected by U.N. peacekeepers, the commission said. The Costa Rican Brigada de Rescate contains police, firemen and other professionals with special training in this type of work. They left for Haiti Friday afternoon. Over the weekend, too, communication was re-established by a team from the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad who put up a satellite dish for telephone, Internet and videoconferencing. This is one way the Costa Ricans on the ground are keeping in touch with their headquarters here. Among other uses, Repretel, Channels 6 and 11, are using the dish to provide coverage from the Haitian capital. The telecom workers who installed the dish are Harry Ruiz Hernández, Jorge Corrales González, Luis Montoya Ramírez and Warren Jara Abarca, the institute said. World leaders have promised massive amounts of assistance to rebuild the capital, after the 7.0 magnitude quake. Estimates now are that there are 200,000 dead. Survivors have been living in makeshift camps on streets |
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Telecom worker finishes installation of a satellite dish at
the Port-au-Prince airport.that are strewn with debris and decomposing bodies. Concerns about security have grown as hundreds of looters break into shops to take whatever they can find and fight among themselves. The U.S. Army's commander on the ground, Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, says the city is seeing less violence than before last week's earthquake. The United States has taken over the airport in Port-au-Prince and is deploying thousands of troops to provide security to emergency workers and maintain transportation routes. U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who traveled to Haiti Sunday, has asked the Security Council to send 3,500 extra troops and police to Haiti. The quake affected some three million people, about a third of Haiti's population, according to estimates. Separately, Haitians complain that President René Preval has been largely absent since the quake flattened nearly the entire capital last week. The presidential palace collapsed in the quake. Preval and members of his government have been meeting in a police station outside the city. Critics say he has spent more time talking to international media than to his own people. The president has yet to make a national address on the crisis. Tens of thousands of bodies have been buried in mass graves. |
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A juvenile court sentenced a 17-year-old murder defendant to 32 years in prison Monday for the murder of a judicial investigator. However, the law automatically reduces the term to 15 years because the accused is a minor. The youth, whose name was not released, is one of the Jamaicans who were involved in a shootout with agents of the Judicial Investigating Organization Nov. 3 in San Antonio de Escazú. Killed was Randall López Garita. The accused got 15 years for the López killing and eight |
years each for the wounding of
another investigator and a bystander in the
same firefight. The court added another year for aggravated resistance. The juvenile was not charged in the murder of Milena María Madriz Muñoz, 20, a Universidad de Costa Rica microbiology student. She was an innocent passerby who walked into a crossfire the week before in Los Yoses. López and other agents were investigating that killing when they encountered the juvenile and other men in a car. The judicial agent died from a bullet fired by an AK-47 rifle. Adults have been detained in the same case. |
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The Volcan Turrialba eruption Jan. 5 is caught in the waning light of day to provide this colorful photo. The mountain still is perking. |
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Volcano experts plan to be above Volcán Turrialba again today to sample the gases being emitted by the mountain. They also want to determine the concentration. The volcano continues to put out ashes and gas, but nothing like the eruption Jan. 5. Only two residents remain in shelters. Others have been settled in other homes in Santa Cruz de Turrialba. These are families who lived on the slopes of the volcano. The Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social has provided stipends for those who wanted to rent homes. Household appliances as well as canisters of cooking gas have been provided to those still in the shelter, said the national emergency commission. The experts flying over the volcano today will be from the |
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Saturday,
too, and discarded the idea that an avalanche might collapse one of the
walls of the active crater, said the commission. This was a concern of
some residents. Rolando Mora, director of the Escuela Centroamericana de Geología at the university, said that experts also will try to sample the gas by hiking in on foot. The two sampling results will be compared. Experts hope to learn the origins of the gas and ash and in that way make an educated guess on the future of the volcano. Meanwhile, the emergency commission has prohibited entry to the Parque Nacional Volcán Turrialba on the advice of geological experts. There is a yellow alert still in force for Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa de Oreamuno and Capellades and Pacayas de Alvarado, said the commission. |
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The leader of Qatar is coming to Costa Rica, but the exact dates still have not been announced. The Venezuelan ambassador to the emirate, Juan Antonio Hernández, said Monday that the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, will be visiting Argentina, Brazil and Costa Rica as well as Venezuela. He was quoted in The Peninsula, the Arabian Gulf state's English online newspaper. The emir has run the small country since 1995 when he deposed his father while the elder leader was traveling in Switzerland. The emir left Sunday on the first leg of his trip. |
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crown prince, attended the Royal Military Academy,
Sandhurst, according to the country's diplomatic service. He entered
his country's military as a lieutenant colonel and quickly became a
major general. He is considered a seasoned diplomat and a promoter of amateur sports in his country. Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez has made overtures to the Middle Eastern Arab states after he moved the country's embassy in Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Sheikh Hamad met with former president Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echerverría at the United Nations in 2000. |
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New Sixaola
bridge plan expected by next April By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The sagging, one-lane bridge over the Río Sixaola between Costa Rica and Panamá might be replaced as part of an agreement of cooperation between the two countries. The Comisión Binacional Permanente set up by the agreement met Monday and quickly addressed the Sixaola situation. The commission said that in either March or April a preliminary plan will be presented on the river. Included will be a proposal for Costa Rica to pay 65 percent of the cost and Panamá 35 percent for a new bridge. The metal bridge has seen better days, and even those who walk over the bridge express concerns. Nevertheless, the structure is used by tractor-trailers. The commission also considered the Parque Internacional La Amidstad, which is in both countries, and the concerns about immigration and security. Costa Rica will be sharing electricity with its neighbor of the south under terms of an anillo de la amistad, a ring of friendship. Costa Rica constructed power plants at Moín and Cahuita for exportable power. All that remains is a transmission line. Exit polls are permitted By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones said Monday that exit polls will be permitted for the Feb. 7 election as long as the results are not published or aired while the election still is taking place. Pollsters also have to respect voters who want to keep their choice secret. Pollsters also have to stay outside the polling place. The tribunal, following the dictates of the new election code, has imposed another restriction on free expression. News media are not allowed to divulge the results of polling for three days prior to the election.
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