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Honduran army didcorrect thing for country Dear A.M. Costa Rica: President Manuel Zelaya was kicked out of his country and brought to Costa Rica moments after trying to imitate the sneaky habits of some of his colleagues from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. He is trying to change the nation's constitution to benefit himself by allowing himself to be reelected indefinitely just like President Chávez did with his country. The people from Honduras who are well known for defending their ideals, their democracy and their freedom did not allow their president to become a dictator. The national army immediately was able to recognize the worries of their citizens and act accordingly without delays. The military did good in removing the president in his pajamas and kicking him out of the country before it was too late. It is clear that Honduras will not tolerate wannabe dictators. Some leaders start out well and then fall in love with power and their political job and don´t want to let go, trying to make their will more important than the will of the people who elected them. The Honduran army is defending the freedom, the constitution and won´t allow anyone to break there laws, even if it´s the president who thinks he is above the law. Too bad the Venezuelan army doesn´t have the balls that the Honduran army has. Gregory Kearney Lawson
San José Colombia will not return abducted man's daughter Dear A.M. Costa Rica: I'm appalled, disgusted, shocked the fact that Nicole Kater kidnapped the 7-year-old daughter from the father in the middle of a custody battle and Costa Rica didn't abide by the Hague convention. My former wife tried to kidnap our daughter to Bogota, Colombia, when she was 7. She's now 13 and was born in Florida. Thank God I was home to get a call to confirm reservations for our daughter and my wife at that time. Then I took our daughter to a motel, calling her mother everyday while I was filing for my divorce and I put a red alert on our daughter's American passport. When our daughter was 11 my former wife with me went to mediation court for our daughter to be with her Colombian family for a vacation signed by the mediator, my former wife, myself plus the judge. My former wife lied on that paper with a false address and phone number. Then I was calling and e-mailing the American Embassy. Finally they contacted the Colombian government, giving me the real phone number, but my wife hung up the phone during my conversation with our daughter. In that e-mail from the American Embassy it was written when the taking parent is Colombian in most cases the Hague convention was ignored. Nicole Kater then had another child. Both of her children have fathers. One is American living in California. Where are his rights? Ed Fulmer
Cape Coral, Florida Organized crime measure may facilitate extortion Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Let me get this straight: under the new organized crime bill, "most crimes could be categorized as organized crimes if two or more persons participate." So if my neighbor and his son steal my pig, they could be prosecuted as organized criminals like the Colombian cartel kingpins? Who's going to decide whether my neighbor/his son are really organized or just high on guaro and jonesin' for some fresh chuletas? The nature of the law suggests to me that the wealth of the alleged criminals may well turn out to be the primary determinant, rather than the severity of the crime that's committed. As A. M. Costa Rica pointed out, this law is wide open for potential abuses because "the bill also will allow various police agencies and the Instituto Costarricense Sobre Drogas to share in the confiscated goods or money." Starving government agencies, many of which are corrupt to begin with, should not be given the authority to seize properties in this fashion or to benefit from seizures because (1) they will undoubtedly go where the money is, and that means foreigners/foreign investors, and; (2) given the dysfunctional and corruption in the court system, an illicit seizure validated by false or inflated evidence could take years to rescind, creating personal and financial disaster for the unfortunate persons in the crosshairs. Extortion directed at property/business owners could run rampant under this law. One might presume that anything is better than not having a single law on the books against conspiracy to commit a crime, which is the way it is here now. But this is just preposterous, not to mention ominous! Combined with the threat of violent and often well financed bands of squatters attacking property/property rights with impunity and greedy Ticas exploiting the laws against domestic violence to steal homes, passage of this law could well be the knockout blow to the security of foreign property owners and investors as well as future investments from abroad. Can't those pinheads in San Jose do ANYTHING without shooting themselves in both feet? I'm thinking that the good folks at National Lampoon are in the midst of a hearty standing ovation right about now. Dean Barbour
Manuel Antonio
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