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to delete defender's data By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sala IV constitution court has ordered a credit bureau to delete information about a pubic defender because the woman is afraid organized crime will use the data to threaten her and her family. The action was brought last November by Karina Redondo Gómez and was decided Friday by the court magistrates. The result was announced Tuesday. The firm involved is the credit bureau WWW.Datum Net, S.A. The court told the company to delete addresses, photographs, and telephone numbers of the woman. The principals of the private firm face a fine or jail if they do not comply with the court order, according to Costa Rican law. The credit bureau obtains its information from public sources, such as driver license records and property ownership documents. So the data that the pubic defender seeks to hide remains available. Jimmy Dean is focus of Theatre Group play By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Little Theatre Group will be presenting in English "Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" for three weekends,starting Sept. 22. The play will be in the Blanche Brown Theatre, in Bello Horizonte, Escazú. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 p.m. Sunday performances are at 2:30 p.m. Playgoers may obtain tickets by calling 355-1623 or online. Our readers' opinions
Airport security glitchmakes this visitor angry Dear A.M. Costa Rica: My wife and I currently live in Florida, and we are considering moving to Costa Rica. As such I have been to Costa Rica several times a year in the past couple of years looking at real estate and learning about the country. I am going back in October to look at some property in Escazú. However, my most recent trip to Costa Rica in June left me scratching my head when it came to airport security at Juan Santamaría. After checking in for our departure flight back to the U.S., we had to get in the only line available to go though security to get to the departure gates. As we got to the metal detector we had to place carry on bags on the conveyor belt to the left of the metal detector so they could be scanned. What astounded us was that people were placing digital cameras, cell phones, I pods, and other small electronic devices into a wooden box as they passed through the metal detector. The wooden box was then passed around the metal detector so people could get their devices back. We watched this happen over and over as the line moved forward. I was shocked. Small electronic devices were not being scanned, and were being allowed to be passed around the metal detector. These devices were large enough to conceal a small gun, knives, mace, explosives, etc. When we got to Atlanta, I notified a Delta pilot of what we saw. I also e-mailed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the matter. I am not sure if anything was done. In the U.S. you can not pass electronic items around the security screening process, and I have no idea why this was being done over and over in front of security in Juan Santamaría. I found it extremely illogical and without any consideration to safety. On the other side of the security sit large jet aircraft that carry 1,000s of people a day to the U.S. and elsewhere. I will be checking this out again when I return in October. If the same process is in place, I will be making quite a vocal stink about it at the airport and I will demand to see the head of security. John Brier
Pensacola, Florida Sept. 11 ceremony here should be public event Dear A.M. Costa Rica: As a U.S. citizen who spent several months in Costa Rica and met the lovely Jo Stuart, I am ashamed and horrified that she was turned away from the 9/11 private ceremony. This occasion should have been open to the public and certainly to any U.S. emigrant. I had plans to live in Costa Rica, but found the red tape too much for me at my age and health conditions. However, I did find out that it is impossible to be in touch with the U.S. Embassy and to get registered with them is impossible. Now, not to let Ms. Stuart attend is just more shame on the U.S.A. and on the present government who controls our lives. Marian Rawson
Los Angeles, California Was this a Bush event only for the qualified? Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Lets see how this headline goes: “Armed U.S. Marines take over Costa Rican Public Park and deny entrance to Legal Residents of Costa Rica who wanted to remember the victims of 9-11”. Does that pretty well sum it up? I guess it really is who is qualified to remember the victims and events and who is qualified to say who should be able to attend these events. It’s almost as if it was one of Bush’s political events with a selected group of invited guests. I would like to see one of invitations, if there really are invitations. You indicate your photographer didn’t have one. Kind of like Laura Bush rewriting the history of Costa Rica in her last speech here in San José. Or could it be that your columnist was singled out for because she identified by some as holding opposite political view from the Bush administration? Doug Gesler
Sabana Oeste EDITOR’S NOTE: The U.S. Marines had nothing to do with barring Jo Stuart from the remembrance ceremony Monday. It was embassy staffers. |
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 Independence day parades may not be until Friday but students from the Escuela Buenaventura Corrales are practicing, some in period clothing. |
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By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
The Arias administration has a lot in common with the policies of the Movimiento Libertario, according to Rodrigo Arias, the minister of the Presidencia. Arias had lunch Tuesday with Otto Guevara, the former lawmaker and presidential candidate who continues to be the president of the Libertario party. Óscar Arias Sánchez, the president, won election as the Partido Liberación Nacional candidate. Rodrigo Arias said that he and Guevara are in agreement on the urgency to approve the free trade treaty with the United States, to approve the so-called complimentary agenda that puts the treaty into practice and to break the monopoly now held by state telecommunications agencies and the Instituto Nacional de Seguros, the nation's only insurance company. "We agreed that the TLC is not an end in itself," said |
Rodrigo Arias,
using the acronym of the treaty's Spanish name. "But it is an
opportunity given the country to participate and be more intensive in
its foreign trade." Rodrigo Arias also said that Casa Presidencial Tuesday was sending a proposed law to the Instituto Costariccense de Electricidad for review by its board of directors. This is a measure that is supposed to strengthen the state entity so that it can compete with private firms that might appear if the treaty is approved. If the board of directors agrees with the measure, the proposal will be forwarded to the Asamblea Legislativa. President Óscar Arias Sánchez has predicted that the assembly would vote on the free trade treaty sometime in December. Opponents of the agreement disagree, and some are mounting a series of street protests against the measure. Costa Rica is the only one of five Latin nations that has not approved the pact. |
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| San José,
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Heredia
teen takes the initiative and gets presidential help
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By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
A young Heredia teen is accepting taking hard times without a fight. The teen, Melissa Vargas, wrote to President Óscar Arias Sánchez to tell him of the hard times in her family, which includes two younger children. She said she would have to drop out of school to help support her family. The president responded. He had just announced a program for such families. The teen, who turns 16 Thursday, and her family were guests of Arias Tuesday, where staffers prepared a surprise birthday cake. She is in the ninth grade of Colegio La Aurora. Arias got a birthday cake later in the day. He turned 66 today. The president's initiative, the Programa Avancemos, will pay the girl's family 25,000 colons a month so she can stay in school. That's about $48 at the current exchange rate. In return the family must promise to use the funds wisely and for the benefit of the children. |
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Melissa Vargas blows out the
candles on her surprise cake while her family and Arias encourage her. |
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Telecommunications
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By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
The executive president of the telecommunications giant Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Jorge Gutiérrez, has resigned after just four months on the job. The resignation — said to be for health reasons — takes effect Friday. He becomes the first member of the Arias administration to leave. President Óscar Arias Sánchez quickly named the No. 2 man at the government agency to lead it and said that he would present the name for confirmation today to the Consejo de Gobierno. |
The new head of the electrical generating,
telephone and Internet institute will be Pedro Pablo Quirós, an
electrical engineer who was educated and worked for more than 20 years
in the United States. He now serves as vice president of the institute
board. Quirós has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, and one in electrical engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He also holds a master's of business administration in applied math from the University of Vermont. His last position was with TMX International, in Miami, Florida, where he was general manager for five years. |
| Argentina and Chile hope to
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By the A.M.
Costa Rica wire services
The presidents of Argentina and Chile have agreed to reopen a trans-Andean cargo and passenger train route that has been closed for several years. Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, announced the plan Tuesday in the western Argentine province of Mendoza. The move is aimed at reopening the railroad by 2010 as part of a $300-million project. |
The railway was closed in the early 1980s after
operating for more than 70 years. The two presidents say its reopening is aimed at improving trade relations. During their talks, Presidents Kirchner and Bachelet also discussed Argentina's natural gas exports to Chile. Chile relies heavily on supplies from its South American neighbor. |
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