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*Wife of Former ICE Director Flees Costa Rica

Following the revelation on Monday that the wife of
former
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)
director, José
Antonio Lobo, had received a payment of US$2.400.000
dollars
from ALCATEL, immigration officials confirmed
yesterday that,
Jean Philp Gallup, had abandoned Costa Rica on a
flight to New
York at 8:15am yesterday (Tuesday) morning.

The Dirección de Migración y Extranjería confirms
that Philp
boarded a Continental airlines flight with direct
service between
San José and New York, surprising officials since the
investigation
had just gotten underway on Monday, following reports
of payoffs
in awarding the ALCATEL contract for GSM cellular
service.

ALCATEL was awarded a contract valued at
US$149.000.000 dollars to
install 400.000 GSM cellular telephone lines, that
would add to the
country's TDMA cellular network.

The GSM contract was the second contract awarded to
ALCATEL by ICE.
A contract valued at US$109.000.000 was awarded to
ALCATEL in May to
install a fixed telephone central system.

According to Pablo Cob, president of ICE, José
Antonio Lobo was a
member of the board of directors that approved the
ALCATEL contracts.

Philp left the country on the same day that the
Spanish daily
newspaper La Nación broke the story of the payoff.
Official at the
Ministerio Público were quick to add that
notwithstanding the woman's

departure, the case will remain open and an active
investigation will
be conducted.

The report comes on the heels of the Contraloria
General de La
Republica (Comptroller's office) not approving the
Ericsson contract
for 600.000 new GSM cellular lines, following reports
of clandestine
meetings between former ICE executives and Ericsson,
among other points
of contentions the Contraloria had on the contract.

ALCATEL, along with other communications firms had
bid on the new
contract, however, Ericsson was chosen by the ICE
board of directors.


*Pacheco brushes off questions on Alcatel donation

Reporters for the Spanish-language media pressed
President
Abel Pacheco Tuesday to explain why he and his
political campaign
accepted $100,000 from Alcatel, the French
telecommunications firm.

The donation was revealed earlier Tuesday by the
newspaper La Nación
as part of a larger exposé of some $9 million paid by
the French firm.
The company won a series of contracts worth $260
million to provide
upgraded cellular telephone service in Costa Rica.

Reporters wanted to know how come the donation came
illegally from
a foreign entity, why it was not reported to the
Tribunal Supremo de

Elecciones, as the law provides, and why the campaign
accepted a
donation in an amount greater than the law allows.

Pacheco did not answer the questions directly. He was
in the middle
of explaining how his government was mobilizing to
fight corruption.

La Nación interviewed Luis Fishman, the second vice
president who is
in exile from the Pacheco government. Fishman, who
managed Pacheco's

presidential campaign, confirmed that he had received
the money in his

personal account and said that all of it went to the
campaign.

He also said that Pacheco attended the meeting where
Édgar Valverde,
manager of Alcatel, agreed to support the campaign.
Also there was
Roberto Tovar, said Fishman. Tovar, who now is the
foreign minister,
handled campaign financing.

The money coming to Pacheco and others appears to
have a connection
with an earlier continuing scandal. An engineer at
ICE appears to
have accepted $77,000 from the French firm, and that
money came
through Marchwood Holdings Inc. Marchwood is a
Panamanian company
headed by Walter Reiche Fischel, the former head of
the pharmaceutical

company that bears his second surname.

Reiche Fischel is in jail under investigation in the
payment of some
$8 million in loan commissions to various politicians
connected with
the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. The Caja
purchased medical
supplies from Finland with a $38 million loan



*BAC San Jose Seeks Those Who Started Rumors

The BAC San José bank confirmed that four suspects
were involved in
the false rumour that was spread on August 10, of the
bank's imminent
failure and the ensuing rush of depositors to
withdraw their savings.

Gerardo Corrales, manager of the BAC San José
explains that the
Ministerio Público does not consider the spreading a
rumour a crime
and the bank has to make a case for defamation and
proceed in a civil
court case.

The BAC San José has received support from the Banco
Central de
Costa Rica and Superintendecia de Entidades
Financieras so that
this type of situation does not repeat itself.


*Poder Judicial Gets More Manpower to Combat Scandals

The president called on the officials for a quick
resolution to
the scandals that have been plaguing the country the
last couple of
weeks - the Fischel-Caja and the Alcatel payoffs head
the list.

The government is giving the Poder Judicial a boost
with more
manpower and an increased budget. However, the Fiscal
General (head

prosecutor), Francisco Dall'anesse, says that the
government handout
just barely covers the cost of the current
investigation his office is

conducting.

The Poder Judicial will have a budget of ¢9.100
million colones
(a little over US$20.000.000 dollars) for the 2005
calendar year.



*Delta Adding Second Daily Flight to Costa Rica

Delta Air Lines Inc. is adding a handful of new
routes in Latin
America as part of the carrier's strategy to do more
lucrative
international and long-haul flying that low-cost
competitors haven't yet

encroached on.

The additional connections between Atlanta and
several Latin American

countries may also help bolster Atlanta's bid for the
permanent
headquarters of the secretariat for the Free Trade
Area of the Americas,
say Delta executives and local economists.

Delta plans to add a second daily flight in December
to San José,
Costa Rica, as well as São Paulo, Brazil. The carrier
also plans
to re-enter Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it will
begin service to
Belize before the end of 2004.

The Latin American market represents one of Delta's
biggest growth
segments, showing a 10.4 percent increase in revenue
so far this year,
from $270 million during the first half of 2003 to
$298 million for the
same period of 2004. Delta has flown to Latin America
only since 1997,
when it inherited some routes to Mexico and the
Caribbean through its

acquisitions of Western Airlines and Northeast Airlines.



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*Scandal Widens: Second Vice President Implicates
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*Scandal Widens: Second Vice President Implicates
President

The Fischel-Caja scandal appears to have opened the
proverbial
"Pandora's Box".

ALCATEL Contract Payoffs

A report by the daily Spanish newspaper La Nación
yesterday told
the story of how the wife of former Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - the state owned monopoly on
telecommunication
and power - José Antonio Lobo, received US$2.400.000
dollars from
ALCATEL, the French firm that was awarded the
contract to install
GSM service in Costa Rica.

According to the La Nación, the money was transferred
from an account
held by Jean Philp Gallup and paid to the wife of the
former ICE director.

La Nación says it has banking documents to back up
it's claim, as well
as other banking documents that shows a transfer of
US$1.200.000 dollars
paid to Bosques del Olimpo, held by another former
ICE director, Joaquín

Alberto Fernández Alfaro. Again, the transfer came
from ALCATEL.
Fernández received US$26.000 personally.

The transfers were made from the Cuscatlán
International Bank in
the Bahamas from an account held by Servicios
Notariales Q. C.

That account, according to the banking documents, had
received
deposits in March, June and October of 2003, for a
total of
US$9.600.000 dollars, all coming from the Alcatel CIT
en el Banco
ABN Amro, in New York.

La Nación was able to confirm that ALCATEL and
Servicios Notariales
Q. C. signed a contract to bid on the public tender
for GSM service
in Costa Rica.

The La Nación report says that Luis Fishman, second
vice president
of Costa Rica, confirmed that he received US$100.000
from ALCATEL as
a contribution to President Abel Pacheco's political
campaign.

Fishman told La Nación that he co-ordinated the
arrival of the funds
with Luis Gabriel Castro, who is president of the
Porter Novelli company.

Castro admitted to La Nación reporters that he did
meet with the
manager of ALCATEL and Pacheco at Fishman's house,
however, he could
not recall if the political contribution was ever
completed.

The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)
awared the French

telecommunications giant, ALCATEL, a contract for
US$258.000.000
dollars over the past three years.

In August of 2001, ALCATEL was awarded the contract
to install 400.000
GSM cellular telephone lines, in a contract that was
worth
US$149.000.000 dollars.

According to Pablo Cob, president of ICE, ALCATEl was
awarded another

contract in May of 2002 to install a fixed line
telephone station in a

contract valued at US$109.000.000 dollars.

According to Cob, José Antonio Lobo and Joaquín
Alberto Fernández,
were members of the board of directors that approved
the ALCATEL
contracts.


"Spanish Loan" Being Questioned

Yesterday, Channel 7 news "Telenoticias" reported
that some in the
medical profession are now asking authorities to
investigate the US$40

million dollar loan by the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and
the government of
Spain.

Many heads of departments at several public hospitals
have complained
about problems with the equipment purchased with the
Spanish loan.

Doctors at the Hospital México as well as the
Hospital San Juan de
Dios have complained that they were not asked them
their opinion on
the type of medical equipment their hospital needed
and the equipment
that was installed, and that they had problems with
the equipment
functioning properly.

According to the Telenoticias reports, Dr. Longito
Soto, a surgeon at

Ophtalmology is complaining that "it was a long and
bitter experience.

Nothing came for a long time and then we were never
asked what we
needed...".

Another doctor, Dr. Dorado, tells the story at
Ophtalmology at the

Ophtalmology where the equipment received by the
hospital was faulty,
of poor quality and broke down easily and not due to
abuse.

The news channel included many other similar stories
told by
doctors at various CCSS hospitals about the equipment
purchased with
the Spanish loan.


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*Dalai Lama's Message of Peace

Costa Rica supports the values of peaceful conflict
resolution,
spiritual renewal and harmonious coexistence preached
by the Dalai
Lama, President Abel Pacheco told Tibet's spiritual
leader.

"We Costa Ricans feel honoured and touched by your
presence," Pacheco
said during a lunch the two shared yesterday - the
second day of the
1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner's visit to Costa Rica.

Present at the luncheon was former Costa Rican
president and 1987 Nobel
Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias, and religious leaders.

This is the second time the spiritual leader of the
Tibetan Buddhist's
has visited Costa Rica where he will hold talks and
workshops for four
days.

Costa Rica shares a very special ideological vision
with Tibet.

Just as Tibet gave up warfare as a national policy
centuries ago,
Costa Rica today is the only nation on the planet
that is totally

demilitarized, thanks to the vision and initiatives
of its former
president Oscar Arias.


*Constitution court asked to settle dispute

The minister de Obras Públicas y Transportes took the
unusual step
Monday of asking the constitutional court to resolve
a conflict with
the Contraloría General de la República.

A spokesperson for the Poder Judicial characterized
the action as not
very common but allowed under the jurisdiction of the
court, the Sala IV.

Ovidio Pacheco is the minister of Obras Públicas.

The filing says that a conflict exists between the
criteria that the

Contraloría issued earlier this month and the
ministry. Alex Solís, the

contralor, said that there were unconstitutional
aspects to the contract
that the ministry had with Riteve S y C, the vehicle
inspection company.

Monopolies are illegal in Costa Rica, and Solís said
that Riteve
approached a monopoly. However, he stopped short of
trying to void the

contract.

In another development related to Riteve, the company
said that its
Nicoya inspection station would be closed today
because the local power

company is doing some line work.


*ICE Board Members Who Went to Prague Fired


The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala
IV) on Friday
rejected an injunction filed by former Costa Rican
Electricity
Institute (ICE) board members José Antonio Lobo and
Hernando Pantigoso,
which sought to overturn a decision by President Abel
Pacheco to fire
them from ICE's board.

As a result of the ruling, the Lobo and Pantigoso
have stepped down.

The board members, along with Alvaro Retana, who
recently stepped down
from his post as head of ICE's telecommunications
division, have been at
the center of a controversy that started last October
when they traveled
to Prague, Czech Republic, with Ricardo Taylor, the
top Costa Rican

representative for Swedish telecom firm Ericsson,
when they were
scheduled to attend a global telecommunications
conference in Switzerland.

At the time, Ericsson was involved in and later won a
$130 million
public bid to provide ICE with 600,000 new GSM
cellular telephone lines.
The contract was signed in June.

In July, the Comptroller General's Office rejected
the contract,
citing 28 objections to it (not including the trip).
Last week,
Comptroller General Alex Solís ordered the bidding
process to be
started again from the beginning.

After legislators from the Libertarian Movement Party
denounced the
trip to Prague, the Executive Branch, the Legislative
Assembly and
ICE all began investigating the matter.

On July 20, Pacheco fired Lobo and Pantigoso because
of alleged

irregularities connected to the trip (TT, July 23). A
week later on
July 27, he named engineers Jorge Gutiérrez and
Francisco Lay to ICE's
board of directors.

On Aug. 3, a day before ICE was to announce the
results of its
investigation, Retana resigned as ICE's head of
telecommunications.

Lobo and Pantigoso, however, filed an injunction
before the Sala IV,
claiming the President's Cabinet lacked the authority
to investigate
and fire them.

The Sala IV agreed to study their case, thereby
suspending the decision
to fire them.

Friday's court ruling resulted in the immediate
firing of Pantigoso
and Lobo and gave Pacheco the authorization to
reinstate his previous

appointments. The new board members will likely be
sworn in during
today's weekly Cabinet meeting.


*Monsanto Says it Left To Increase Efficiency

A representative of genetically modified organism
(GMO) and
agrochemical giant Monsanto confirmed yesterday the
company has
closed its offices in San José and moved its Central
American
operations to Colombia and Mexico.

The closure, which happened in April, was announced
and championed
last week by environmental groups as a victory in
their battle against
GMOs. However, Manuel Rivas, Monsanto's manager of
product development
in Central America, said yesterday the decision to
leave was made to
increase efficiency – not in response to pressure
from anti-GMO groups.

Rivas also confirmed the U.S.-based company has
withdrawn its
request from the Costa Rican Ministry of Agriculture
and Livestock
(MAG) for permission to plant genetically modified
corn in Costa Rica.

“It is not a priority market, because of the small
size of the
cultivation,” Rivas said. He said the company would
instead look to
Honduras and Guatemala for cultivation of modified corn.

However, Rivas said Monsanto officials may in the
future resubmit
their request to grow the controversial crop in Costa
Rica. He also
stressed normal Monsanto business continues in Costa
Rica, primarily

distribution of the company's herbicide Roundup.

GMOs are crops that are genetically modified by
scientists to exhibit
certain traits, such as disease or herbicide
resistance. Many of
Mansanto's genetically modified products are “Roundup
Ready,” meaning
they are resistant to the herbicide the company
produces.

Opponents say GM crops have unknown health risks and
could contaminate
the genetic material of nearby crops through the
natural spread of
seeds from gene-modified plants. They claim
genetically modified corn
has already severely contaminated crops in Mexico.



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*Feature Article: Fischel Scandal Just Grows, and
Grows, and Grows!

*Events

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*Fischel Scandal Just Grows, and Grows, and Grows!

Former Costa Rican president and now Secretary
General of the
Organization of American States (OAS) Miguel Ángel
Rodríguez told
reporters that he knows nothing of the scandal
surrounding the Fischel,
the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social and the
credit loan from Finland.

He also told reporters from the Spanish daily La
Nación, that he has
not been following the news on the subject and what
is being said in
Costa Rica about the matter.

The credit was approved in December of 2001, during
the Rodríguez
presidency.

When pressured by reporters to give his opinion on
the scandal,
Rodríguez, said that he has been immersed in the
restructuring of the
OAS for the last couple of months.

Anonymous Calls Results in Raid of Legal Offices of
the Caja

Agents with the "Delitos Económicos" (Financial
Crimes) section of the

Organismo Investigacion Judicial (OIJ) raid the
offices and car of the
Legal Director of the Caja Costarricense del Seguro
Social (CCSS),
Rodrigo Cordero.

The Ministerio Público said it received an anonymous
phone call that
Cordero was removing documents from the legal
department of the CCSS and

storing them in the trunk of his car, with the intent
to remove them

completely from the building.

Authorities spent more than three hours reviewing the
documents in the

vehicle and speaking with Cordero before moving to
the third floor
offices where the man worked.

No official news has been released on the results of
the raid and the

inspection of the documents nor the results of the
conversation between

Cordero and the authorities.

Private Sector Distancing Itself from Fischel

The scandal that has surrounded the Corporación
Fischel, the Caja

Costarricense del Seguros Social (CCSS) and the
Finland credit loan,
had not only been a focus of attention for the
Ministerio Público, but
for the private sector as well.

Several companies have already place a distance
between itself and
anything to do with the Fischel and any of it's
officers.

Yesterday, Asesores de Servicios en Salud (ASERSA)
publicly made the

announcement that in the following days the names of
Walter Reiche
Fischel, Marvin Barrantes and Randall Vargas, will
disappear from the
board of directors of ASERSA.

Fischel owns some 40% of the stock of ASERSA. Another
40% of ASERSA stock
is held by ASEMECO, the company that also owns the
Clínica Bíblica
hospital, and the rest of the stock in the hands of
various shareholders.

William Cubillo, manager of ASERSA, says that the
company is in the
process of purchasing the stock held by Fischel.

The move by ASERSA to separate itself from Fischel
comes on the heels of

another company, ANVECO, who built the new building
housing the new
Clínica Bíblica clinic.

More companies are expected to distance themselves
from any relations with

Fischel in the coming weeks

Fischel May be Sold

Heard the latest rumour? The sale of the Corporación
Fischel? Well,
the truth may not be too far from the gossip.

In a statement to the press, president of the board
of directors of
the Corporación Fischel, Emilio Bruce, does not
discard the possibility
that the pharmaceutical giant may be sold.

Bruce said in his statement that, "now as in the
past, the Corporación

Fischel will continue to develop new business ideas
to reflect the
changes in the global market. The company will keep
open it's doors to
the interests of it's investors, both national and
foreign, and evaluate
the best options for the well being of it's
customers, suppliers and stock

holders."

Bruce added that the Corporación Fischel will
continue to provide the same

solid services it has in the past, but in no way
dispels the rumours that

have been circulating financial circles for the past
week.

Bruce said that talks of sale have been part of the
history of the
company, as the company evaluates different offers
and/or interests from
time to time.

The board president didn't deny either that the
Corporación Cefa has had
it's eyes on Fischel for some time and that there
have been talks between
the two companies. Nothing concrete has come of it,
according to Bruce,

though it is believed that the two entities are
negotiating a possible
sale.

The Corporación Fischel has been at the centre of the
scandal over the

diversion of a part of the funds from the Finland
credit loan to the Caja

Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) that has seen
Fischel's president,

Walter Reicher Fischel, and company lawyer, Randall
Vargas, behind bars

awaiting the results of the ongoing investigation.

This past Monday, a former Fischel manager, Marvin
Barrantes, was detained
an placed under house arrest, while the downtown
offices of the Corporación

Fischel were raided by the Fiscalia for evidence to
complete their

investigations into the Fischel-Caja scandal.

Eliseo Vargas, former president of the CCSS is also
in jail, and former
Costa Rican president Rafael Angel Calderón Fournier
cannot leave the

country, along with his former law firm partner,
Gerardo Bolaños, who is
also under house arrest, for having received monies
from Fischel, through

Panamanian corporations, as a commission for the
arrangement and
completion of the CCSS credit loan.

Calderón gave back US$522.500 dollars he received
from Marchwood Holdings
in Panama, as did Bolaños when he deposited with the
Fiscalia US$90.000

dollars in stock and other assets.

The Fiscalia alleges that as much as US$8.000.000
dollars was paid in

commission to various public functionaries and
politicians from the
credit loan of US$38.000.000 dollars that was for the
purchase of medical

equipment and supplies at the CCSS.


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*Film about Tibet
The film “Seven Years in Tibet” begins at 6:45 p.m.
at the Law School

auditorium of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in
San Pedro. Info:

207-4271.

*Pubic Events with the Dalai Lama
Today, the Dalai Lama will speak to the public about
“Ethics for the
New Millennium,” 9:30-11:45 a.m. at the University of
Costa Rica.
Tomorrow, the Dalai Lama will meet with Christian
religious leaders at
10 a.m. at the Children's Museum and at 2 p.m., he
will discuss
“The Eight Verses of Training of the Mind,” a lesson
from the teachings
of the Buddha Shakyamuni. Info: Tibetan-Costa Rican
Cultural Association,

258-0254.


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*Real Estate Fraud Still up in the Air

The Sala IV, the supreme court of Costa Rica, had a
chance to decide
who will be protected in real estate fraud cases.
Much to the amazement
of some in the Costa Rican legal community, the court
decided not to
decide.

By deciding that two potentially landmark legal cases
are "sin lugar,"
or without merit, magistrates have left the country
hanging as to who to

protect, the crooks or the innocents.

Historically, the Sala III, the supreme court for
criminal appeals,
has protected the innocent and returned scammed
property back to its
original owners.

On the other hand, the Sala I, the civil supreme
court, has protected
third parties in property fraud cases. In many
situations, the third
parties are the same thieves or accomplices who
swindled the piece of

property in the first place.

In other words, the swindlers can steal property with
forged documents,
sell the property to someone else, and the civil
court will protect the
last owner in the chain.

On Sept. 13, 2002, someone filed an action in the
Sala IV saying that
the criminal court, the Sala III, was wrong and that
third parties should
be protected.

In May of this year, someone else filed another
supreme Court case
against the Sala I, the civil court, stating original
owners should be

protected.

A small country like Costa Rica needs only one set of
laws no matter in
what court a legal action is litigated. For this
reason, some in the
Costa Rican legal community and property owners who
have been defrauded
were waiting patiently for the supreme court to give
the country some

direction.

Just like in almost every other country of the world,
when the Supreme
Court decides not to hear a case, it reaffirms what
already is in place.

So now, as before, property fraud cases will protect
third parties if
filed in Costa RicaÂ’s civil court and protect
original owners only if
filed in Costa RicaÂ’s criminal court.

There is no court commentary to determine why the
magistrates decided
not to decide.

The country court system is broken down into four
different courts or
salas only as a method to expedite matters, not to
have different sets
of rules for different processes. The spirit of the
legal system here is
to have one congruent authority.

Several lawyers contacted had no idea of the recent
ruling or even that
these cases existed in front of the Supreme Court.
The majority do not
know there is a dichotomy in the law.

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no matter what you
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*Tax Reform Package Reaches Legislative Assembly

After more than two years of debate by the countryÂ’s
lawmakers,
the fiscal reform package has finally reached the
legislative
assembly, although there remains much work to be done
before the
tax reforms are passed.

The reform package proposes to make some fundamental
reforms to
the countryÂ’s taxation system in order to bolster the
governmentÂ’s
tax revenues, pay off the countryÂ’s growing foreign
debt, and reduce
the deficit to 2.65% of GDP.

Under one of the planÂ’s major proposals, income tax
in Costa Rica will
cease to be levied on a territorial basis, meaning
that a residentÂ’s

worldwide income will fall under the tax net.

The top income tax bracket would also be raised from
25% to 30% along
with a general overhaul of income tax thresholds.

Another major change will see the 13% sales tax
transformed into a

value-added tax, extending the levy to services such
as legal fees
and medical services in addition to payment for
goods. However,
private education services would be exempt.

Corporate income tax under the plan would gradually
be reduced from 30%
to 25%, and special tax breaks would also apply to
small and medium-
sized businesses in the hi-tech sector or located in
under-developed
areas.

The tax-reform bill would also make permanent taxes
on casinos and
online gambling firms, and attempt to improve tax
collection methods
in general.

A decision by the Constitutional Court earlier this
month to reject a
legal challenge by two lawmakers opposed to the plan
appeared to give
its supporters fresh impetus when all seemed lost.

However, lawmakers now have to review 1,182 reform
motions that were
rejected by the legislative commission responsible
for drafting the
bill, before it can be approved.

This in itself could cause fresh conflict amongst
lawmakers. Supporters
of the plan have reportedly said that they are
working on ways to speed
up this process within accepted legal boundaries.
However, those opposing
the plan counter that any attempt to force through
the reforms would be

“undemocratic.”


*Philippines, Costa Rica Agree to Boost Bilateral Ties
The Philippines and Costa Rica marked a new milestone
in their relations
with the signing of a memorandum of understanding
that calls for regular

consultations between both countries.

The "Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment
of a Bilateral

Consultation Mechanism between the Department of
Foreign Affairs of
the Philippines and the Ministry of External
Relations and Culture of
Costa Rica" was signed at the United Nations on
Friday by Foreign Affairs

Secretary Alberto G. Romulo and his counterpart,
Foreign Minister Roberto

Tovar Faja.

The signing was witnessed by Ambassador Lauro L. Baja
Jr., Permanent

Representative of the Philippines to the United
Nations, and Ambassador
Bernd Niehaus, Permanent Representative of Costa
Rica, as well as
diplomats from the permanent missions of both countries


*Heavy Rains Cause Damage
The heavy rains of the last several days have left
five bridges damages
in Cartago, Oreamuno, Turrialba and Vázquez de
Coronado. Also, the rain
has caused damage to various roads.

The worst of the damages is being suffered in the
Province of Cartago.

The bridge over the Toyogres river is probably the
worst damaged, as
vehicles and pedestrians have had to find an
alternative route to get to
and from Cartago and Oreamuno.

Edwin Aguilar, regional director at the Ministerio de
Obras Públicas y

Transportes (MOPT) in Cartago, says that there has
been infrastructural

damage in most of the province.



*Miss Costa Rica Mundo 2004
Miss Costa Rica Mundo 2004, Shirley Calvo Jiménez, is
set to travel to
city of Sanya, Hainan Island, in China to participate
in the Miss Mundo
2004 contest, in December.


The beauty queen is 22 years old and a student of
business administration.
A resident of Sabanilla, Jiménez is off to work daily
at the Legislative

Assembly.

Jiménez, is about to to conclude her thesis in
Business Administration and

the Degree in International Relations.

Her experience in beauty pageants include
participation in the Reina

Internacional de los Carnavales de Guayaquil in
Ecuador, where she was

crowned and the Reina Maya Internacional in Belize,
where she came in
first finalist.

This year she was an invited guest at the Nuestra
Belleza en Honduras in

August and in Guatemala two weeks ago.

Jiménez is expected to leave for China on November 8,
where she is
expected to tour China and get ready for the December
4 contest.



*Consulting Firm Can't Account for $200K in Aid for
Costa Rica

About $200,000 linked to a Japanese official
development project in
Costa Rica remains unaccounted for after it was paid
to a major
Japanese consulting company, the Yomiuri Shimbun
reported Saturday.

The fund is part of $230,000 (around 25 million yen)
paid to Pacific

Consultants Co., based in Tama, western Tokyo, which
was supposed to

subcontract part of a Japanese-financed project to a
Costa Rican
government agency, the major newspaper said in a
front-page article.

The irregularity was disclosed through investigations
by the Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the
government's aid donor body,
the Yomiuri said.

On Sept. 15, JICA suspended the company from bidding
on aid projects for
two months, the Yomiuri said.

Costa Rican law enforcement authorities also appear
to have launched

investigations into the case, it said.

The project was for devising an agricultural
development plan in Costa
Rica's northwestern region, the Yomiuri said. The
consulting company
formed a consortium with another firm in October 2000
to bid on the 423

million yen project, entirely financed by Japanese aid.

Pacific Consultants subcontracted the surveying and
mapmaking related
to the project to the National Geographic Institute
of Costa Rica,
according to the paper.

The subcontract fee cited in the contract submitted
to JICA was $230,000,
but an audit by the Costa Rican Ministry of Public
Works and Transport
found only several tens of thousands of dollars in
the institute's
account, the newspaper said.

Faked Documents Over Project

Pacific Consultants International (PCI) submitted a
falsified document
to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
regarding a contract
for work on an official development assistance
project in Costa Rica, "The

Yomiuri Shimbun" Japan's news source, has learned.

In the document submitted to JICA, PCI said it
subcontracted surveying and

topographical mapping to the Instituto Geografico
Nacional de Costa Rica

(National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica) after
it had the institute
and two Costa Rican companies submit estimates for
the cost of the work.
PCI listed the estimated costs in the document.

However, a JICA investigation prompted by the Costa
Rican government found

that PCI had really negotiated solely with the
geographic institute.

PCI reportedly has admitted the allegation.

A JICA official said: "All ODA contracts, including
subcontracts, can be
made only with our approval. The falsified report is
a serious violation of

the contract between PCI and us."

PCI, the largest consulting firm in Japan that
specializes in overseas

development work, was commissioned to draw up a plan
for an agricultural

development project in Costa Rica to be funded by 423
million yen in ODA.

The company subcontracted a part of the project to
Costa Rican institution

for 25 million yen. However, much of the subcontract
fee that was supposed
to be paid to the institute by PCI remains
unaccounted for. JICA suspects
PCI may have misused the money.

In ODA programs, bids for consulting work on a
development project are
based on the quality of the proposal and the
company's capabilities,
rather than just the bidding price.

Influential factors include the experience of the
consultants' staff, and

prospects that the project will deliver on specified
goals, according to

sources.

This puts the company with the greatest local
knowledge at an advantage.
For this reason, consulting firms compete with each
other to establish a
good relationship with officials in countries where a
project is likely to
be conducted - even before such countries ask the
Japanese government for

development assistance.

Since planning projects are often the first step
toward full scale

development programs, the consulting firm in charge
of planning is in a
good position to be commissioned for the development
project as well.


*Father Minor Calvo, accused as being the principal
author is the

assissantion of journalist, Parmenio Medina, will
spend more time in jail,
as his appeal to end preventive detention was denied.
Calvo will have to
wait the results of the investigation into the murder
from his jail cell.


*High Speed Internet Service Approved

The Contraloría General de la República
(Comptroller's office) last
week turned down the contract that the Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) had with Ericsson Costa Rica to
supply 600.000 new GSM

cellular lines, but it did give the green light to
high speed internet.

ICE has a deal with Samsung Electronics to provide
wide band internet
service that would be available country wide.

The contract approved by the Contraloría is for the
aquisition of
84.485 DSL ports that amounts to an investment of
US$22.973.628 dollars.

The investment will allow ICE to provide high speed
DSL service as part of

it's program Sistema de Acceso para el Proyecto de
Red IP, which will be

connected to the national telecommunications system.

The project will take advantage of the existing
infrastructure, since the
DSL service will be provided over the same telephone
lines used currently
to provide telephone communications.

Customers connected to the high speed service can use
their telephone and

surf the internet at the same time.


*Vehicular Inspection Rules Eased
Need to take your car at Riteve for the annual
vehicular inspection?
Starting today, some 120 items will pass from "grave"
to "leve"
(serious to light).

One of the items that affects many car owners is
tinted windows. In the
past, Riteve would not pass the vehicle if it had
after market tinted

windows, including the rear windows.

The Ministerio de Obras Publica y Transporte (MOPT)
made changes to the

requirements as part of the agreement the government
made with protestor
some weeks back. The new Transport Minister, Ovidio
Pacheco, is now in
charge of fulfilling the government's obligations.

Other defects affected by the easing of the rules, is
the vehicle does
not have a rear view mirror, the high beam/low beam
switch is not working

properly and the tire dimensions are different from
the recommended for
the type of vehicle.



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COMMENTARY: LESSONS WE CAN LEARN FROM THE BRUCE
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It is a terrible disappointment when we discover that
someone
we thought was a champion of the poor and
underprivliged turns out
to be doing things that he condemns in others.

Many people and governments in Central America are
filled with indignation
to discover that "child advocate" Bruce Harris
appears to have some of the
worst problems that he condemned in others.

For over 15 years, Harris condemned abuse of minors
thorughout the isthmis.
He condemned the systematic murder of street kids in
Hondurus and
Guatamala. He condemned the sexual exploitation of
minors thorughout
these countries, and helped build shelters to take
these unfortunates off
the street.

These are good works, which have saved thousands of
lives.

In order to accomplish what he did, Harris had to be
very outspoken and
criticize governing elites in all of these countries
who see minors as
something to exploit and use for sex toys whenever
they wished, only to
be tossed aside like Dixie Cups once they were
finnished using them.

So it would be a few minutes of sexual harrassment, a
token payment, and
then back out on the street again where they came from.

Harris concentrated on what he called "sex tourism,"
but he also fought
this battle against the oligarchs in all of these
countries who seem to
think it is their "right" as "lords of the manor" to
use their "subjects"
however they saw fit.

And there is a pervasive attitude of insensitivity
and denial on this
subject that reaches to the highest levels, with
presidents of each of
the countries of Central America saying "problem,
what problem?"

This centuries long habit of exploitation of the
"serfs" by the ruling
elites in Latin America and many other third world
countries is a problem.
Foreign "sex tourists" are, after all, only piggy
backing off of local
custom in many cases.

Naturally, those used to abusing, using, and throwing
away their young
"sex toys" have not been amused that their little
operations have been
exposed for the world to see. How much better, in
their minds, is it to
just sweep the problems under the carpet and forget
that they exist. And,
like in some countries, if the kids become too
numerous and bothersome, it
is very easy to just send the police out in
assassination squads to eradicate
them like rats.

The only voice raised in protest against these
atrocities has now been
silenced. And "authorities" in all of these
countries are now in glee
that they have caught Harris in the worst kind of
personal situations,
having gay sex with a young man in Hondurus who is a
former client of
Casa Alianza.

So now, these elites are pouncing on the opportunity
to "investigate," and
I have no doubt that Harris will someday soon end up
in jail in either
Hondurus or Guatamala, and he will probably die there
for daring to defy
the status quo.

It is sad that it is a common trait of human nature
that we often criticize
in others problems simillar to those we have
ourselves. We will never
know the extent of Harris' personal problem, but it
is very sad that
those problems may now wipe out years of hard work
and a little progress
for those less fortunate and who are exploited by
outdated, evil, feudal,
and oligarchical systems controlled by a ruling elite
who believe that
sexual exploitation of minors and whoever else they
choose is just one
more of the perks that comes with their elevated
station in life above
the "common herd" of regular mortals. They will no
doubt take advantage
of this situation to wind back the clock and regain
lost ground for their
despicable, dirty, and contemptible "habits."


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*FISCHEL-CAJA:
Emilio Bruce Impeded from Leaving Costa Rica

Following two days of sifting and packing, the
Fiscalía, OIJ
agents and members of the Ministerio de Hacienda
(Revenue),
completed their raid on the offices of the
Corporación Fischel
in downtown San José, loading hundreds of boxes of
documents
and computers to waiting trucks.

Thurdsay came the news that the Fiscalía had
requested and
granted by the courts that the president of the board of
directors of Fischel, Emilio Bruce, be impeded from
leaving
Costa Rica.

Under the order, Bruce cannot leave Costa Rica
without permission.

Bruce spoke to Telenoticias news, saying that he
accepts the
decision of the Fiscal General, Francisco Dall'anese.
"I am sure
he has his reason for doing so", Bruce told channel 7
news reporter,
Danny Gonzalez.

"My lawyers will look at the reasons for the
decision", Bruce added.

Bruce has been the president of the board of the
Corporación Fischel
that has been involved in the Fischel-Caja scandal,
that has seen its

president, Walter Reiche Fischel, and company lawyer,
Randall Vargas,
waiting out the investigation from a jail cell at San
Sebastian for
several months.

A court decision on Tuesday denied the two men, along
with former Caja

president, Eliseo Vargas, a downgrading of the
preventive detention
order from jail to house arrest.

Bruce says that he is innocent and though members of
his company
have been detained (Monday, former Fischel manager,
Marvin Barrantes,
was detained as well) he is not involved and not
guilty. However,
since he is at the helm, he will accept any
responsibility that
befalls him.

Bruce said, "If I have committed any errors, I will
have to answer
them. We will see what the Fiscal has in his hands
and the reasons
for his arguments..."


*Don't have an exit stamp in your passport? Don't worry.

Every person leaving Costa Rica has his or her name
checked against
the immigration database.

Immigration officials at the border crossing at Peñas
Blancas
(Nicaragua) and Paseo Canoas (Panama) enter the
persons ID in the
computer against the database while the person waits
and stamps the
passport with a "salida" stamp.

However, at the Juan Santamaria airport, the
passenger name is
checked behind closed doors and the person is not
allowed to board
the airplane if any irregularities are found. No
"salida" stamp is
placed on the passport, a practice that was stopped a
few years back.

Reasons for not being able to leave Costa Rica
include a court order
that impedes exit, not paying child welfare or the
person is under
criminal investigation.


*Bruce Harris Leaves Costa Rica

The Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería
confirmed that
Bruce Harris, former director of Casa Alianza, left
Costa Rica last
Sunday on a 7:30 am flight to Miami.

Harris, according to immigration official
information, boarded
American Airlines flight AA700 at the Juan Santamaria
airport.

Rumours that Harris had left Costa Rica had been
circulating when
news reporters were not able to find the man and no
one answered
the door at his residence in Curridabat, east of San
José.


*Banco Nacional Takes Over at BICSA

The Banco Nacional (BNCR) - a state controlled bank -
has
announced it will take over the operations of the Banco
Internacional de Costa Rica (BICSA). The BICSA name
and logo
will continue.

BNCR owns 80% of the BICSA shares and will now take
over the
day-to-day operations, announced, Willian Hayden,
president of the
BNCR.

Rumours were dispelled that the move was due to
financial problems
at BICSA. Bank officials were quick to point out,
that the move was
to better BICSA's services by taking advantage of the
BNCR resources.

The other 20% of the BICSA shares are owned by the
other state bank,
Banco de Costa Rica (BCR).

BICSA has operations in Miami and Panama.

BICSA Miami is supervised by the U.S. Federal Reserve
and the
Florida Department of Financial Services.

BICSA Panamá and BICSA Corporación Financiera is
supervised by
the Superintendencia de Bancos y la Comisión Nacional
de Valores de
Panamá.


*Rodriguez to revamp OAS
Former President Miguel Angel Rodriguez (1998-2002)
officially
took office as Secretary General of the Organization
of American
States (OAS). He announced a revamping of the
Organization, in order
to make it more efficient and to properly challenge
its financial
straits. In a press release, Rodriguez remarked that
the Secretary
General must guide his work towards "reaching the
highest ideals of
peace, justice, freedom, and prosperity for the
Americas." Rodriguez
pointed out that the changes will be launched
immediately, and pledged
to focus particularly on human rights, democracy, and
the solution of

controversies, integral development, and the struggle
against poverty."
The OAS Secretary General has a $1-million budget
deficit this year,
and the figure is expected to be $5 million next year.


*Potholes to be filled
Highway officials said Thursday that they were
embarking on a
month-long project to repair potholes and damaged roads.

Nevertheless, the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y
Transportes said
that only 14.9 percent of the national highway
network was in poor
condition, compared to 35 percent at the same time in
2002.

Officials said they plan to fill 10,000 potholes a
week. Some of
the roads being targeted are in the Pacific tourism
area, and Ovido
Pacheco, the new minister of Obras Públicas, said the
idea was to
get the highways in shape for tourismÂ’s high season.

Specifically, the road to Playa Tamarindo and from
Flamingo to
Sardinal will be part of the program. However, the
bulk of the
highways are in the Central Valley.

Filling potholes will be done in conjunction with the
municipalities.
In the first two weeks workmen will be in Goicoechea,
Desamparados,

Alajuelita, Heredia Centro, Santa Bárbara, Alajuela
Centro, Cartago
Centro, Puriscal, Pococí and Grecia. Palmares, San
Ramón and Valverde
Vega will get some new asphalt coatings.

*COMMENT: One has to wonder what is really going on
with this issue.
During the Figueres Administration, the pothole
situation was so bad that
potholes could literally eat your car. Then, during
the Rodriguez admin-
istration, potholes were filled and roads became fine
to drive on again.

Then, within a year of Pacheco taking office, the
roads were going downhill
very fast again. Now they are going to have a
campaign to fill the
potholes?

Part of the problem appears to be that the current
administration is not
releasing funds that are collected and specifically
earmarked for road
repairs from gas taxes. We wonder where the money is
really going?

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*Harkin Calling, is anyone listening .

Well it sure looks like no one is.

If the offshore oil drilling is permitted and they start
pumping out oil like no tomorrow. Costa Rica could
go from
having a national debt to having a national surplus.

Maybe they could stop their sex taxes on hotels.

Did you know that if you rent a room for 1 hr there is
a 50 percent tax on it for the sex which goes on there.

So why should the Costa Rican government indirectly
tax sex

Do people enjoy paying this IVI tax on the goods they
purchase
would it not be better to have the oil offshore pay
for it all.

Or is it that the government enjoy the river of young
women who
are induced to sell their bodies to make end meat
because they can not do it anyother way.


_Well it is this kind of flying BS which is allowing
the IMF is
drilling the value of the colon into the ground,
and why the Costa Rican Sex Trade may be the only way
out of
a pending budget crisis, via the government opening
brothels,
and allowing brothels in the airport as they do in
Germany.

Sex after a flight helps deal with the Jet Lag issue,
In Berlin it is considered good form to have sex with
a hooker
post a long flight to get one in shape for a meeting.

In the end one has to ask which is more important
drilling for oil offshore and getting Harkin to stop
its games for screwing the Costa Rican people or
for the Government to expand its sex tourism industry
and its take from it.

Take your pick. So far the Harkin deal looks far better
than expanding the CR Government involvement in the
SEX Tourism Business.

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Rodríguez promises not to let people down

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Miguel Ángel Rodriguez, who
officially
assumed his new five-year position as
secretary-general of the
Organization of American States Wednesday, says his
top priorities
for the Western Hemisphere include promoting human
rights, democracy,

conflict resolution, and the fight against poverty.

The former president of Costa Rica led his nation
from 1998 to 2002.
More recently he was a professor at George Washington
University's
School of International Affairs here. Rodriguez said
that the OAS
has a "great responsibility to the peoples of this
hemisphere and
we must not let them down."

Rodriguez won election as secretary-general June 7,
after which
he said he wanted to lead the OAS in pursuing
"freedom, justice,
and development so that every citizen of the Americas
can enjoy a
decent life and realize his or her full human
potential." He added:
"I know the rudder belongs to the member states and I
pledge my
utmost creativity and devotion in charting a happy
course."

Rodriguez succeeds former Colombian President Cesar
Gaviria as
secretary general. Gaviria declared that with the
election of
Rodriguez, the OAS "will certainly enter a period of
renewal and

strengthening."

In Costa Rica, Roberto Tovar, Faja, foreign minister,
called the
elevation of Rodríguez a triumph for the country and
for the nationÂ’s

diplomacy.


*FISCHEL-CAJA:
Scandal Reaches Finland

The corruption scandal that has hit Costa Rica for
some time
touched Finland, the source fo the credit loan. In
Helsinki,
government functionaries rejected publications in the
Costa Rican
press insinuating the deviation of funds in the multi
million
dollar credit to the Caja Costarricense del Seguro
Social (CCSS).

Government functionaries say that they approved the
US$32 million
dollars credit loan - without interest - to Costa
Rica, which they
later added another US$7 million dollars, however, no
commissions
were paid on the funds.

Juhani Toivonen, director for the Exterior Ministry
in Finland
told AFP that:

"I don't know exactly what happened in Costa Rica. We
approved
a line credit for $32 million dollars for the
purchase of medical
equipment on the part of the Costa Rican public
health system."

A spokesperson for Instrumentarium Medical in
Helsinki, the company
that had received the contract to complete the sale
of the equipment
and that made the Corporacióon Fischel it's exclusive
representative
in Costa Rica, said that:

"Instrumentarium has faith in the Costa Rican
project. All the
equipment has been delivered as approved by our
client. Training
on the equipment and service and guarantees have been
fulfilled as
agreed to based on the terms and conditions of the
contract.

This project has been completed in a satisfactory
manner and all
contractual obligations fulfilled. All payments have
been made based
on the terms of the contract, including the services
of our distributor

partner (Fischel)."

Instrumentarium added to it's comments, that they
will prefer not
to comment any longer on this case since there is an
ongoing
investigation and do not want to interrupt that process.

We will get them
Meanwhile, agents of the Organismo de Investigacion
Judicial (OIJ),
the Fiscalia (prosecutor's office) and the Ministerio
de Hacienda
(Revenue) continued to box documents and records at
the main offices
of Fischel in downtown San José, with the intent to
remove them from
the hands of the Corporación and to be reviewed by
officials.

One Hacienda official, who refused to have his name
published, told
us that "we will get them." The agent was referring
to a possible
evasion of taxes on the commissions earned by Fischel
on the deal.

Vargas family to move out
In another related incident, a judge has ordered that
the family of
former CCSS president Eliseo Vargas, who is currently
a guest of the
Costa Rican penal system, have 48 hours to move out
of the luxurious
home that is owned by the Corporación Fischel and
rented by Vargas.

The order to complete a request by the prosecutor who
is confiscating
the house while the Fischel-Caja investigation
continues. The property
will be in the hands of the Attorney's General office
pending the
outcome of the case.


*ICE to Lose Money on Cancelled Cellular Contract

According to ICE - the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad
- the telecommunications monopoly, it will lose some
¢80.000.000.000
colones in the 2006 due to the cancellation announced
yesterday of the

Ericsson contract to supply 600.000 new GSM cellular
Lines.

The Contraloría General de la República
(Comptroller's office) found
problems with the contact following speculation that
the former
manager of ICE met with officers of Ericsson Costa
Rica in Europe
in a secret meeting and charges by competitors that
the deal was rigged.

ICE does not have sufficient cellular telephone lines
to meet the
demands as Costa Ricans choose to obtain a cellular
telephone
while waiting, up to years, for a telephone line in
their home.

The 600.000 cellular lines that were to be installed
by Ericsson
will not only leave the institution with a financial
loss, but
thousands of cellular customers will also suffer, as
they cannot
connect to the network.

Currently, Costa Rica, operates two cellular networks
- TDMA and GSM.

The new lines would have brought to Costa Rica the
new generation
of GSM that would have included more services, like
sending and
receiving photos and internet access.

Customers with GSM cellular telephones will have to
wait as ICE
decides on a new petition to award a new contract for
the service.
There are no GSM lines available and the small number
of TDMA lines
left may be used up by the end of the year.

Costa Ricans a few year back had to wait months to
get cellular
service. A customer had to make request at ICE and
then had to wait
for the news to be published in the local newspapers
announcing the

availability of lines depending on the number given
the customer at
the time of the request.

Some insiders at ICE say that this may be the case
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*Multiple Raids on Fischel by Fiscaliá and OIJ

In an action that began about 9am, yesterday, the OIJ,
prosecutors from the Ministerio Público and auditors
from
the Ministerio de Hacienda, raided the central
offices of
the Corporación Fischel and three warehouses owned by
the
Corporación Cormar, in Barreal de Heredia.

The raids were a continuing part of the raids held on
Monday
at the house of former Fischel manager, Marvin
Barrantes, in
Moravia and the offices of Multiservicios
Electromédicos in La
Uruca.

The objective of the raids is to confiscate documents
relating
to the Finnish credit of $39.5 Million Dollars that
was for the
la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), of
which some $8
Million Dollars was paid to the Corporación Fischel
as a commission.

The money, according to the Fiscalia (prosecutor's
office) was then

distributed to public functionaries and politicians
as a form of
payoff to approve the credit.

Eliso Vargas, former president of the CCSS and Walter
Reiche
Fischel, president of the Corporación Fischel, are
both in jail
waiting a judge's order for preventive detention
against them,
as well as Corporación Fischel lawyer, Randall Vargas.

Eliseo Vargas and Walter Reiche appeared before a
judge yesterday
to appeal the detention order. The judge's decision
should come
in several days.

Former Costa Rican president Rafael Angel Calderón is
being
implicated in the scandal, for having received a
$440.500 dollars
from Fischel through Panama. Along with Calderón, his
law firm
partner, Gerardo Bolaños is currently under house
arrest for having
received a $90.000 dollars payment and a cousing of
Calderón is
also being implicated for receving $80.000 dollars.

News came yesterday that Calderón paid into court the
sum of $520.500,
the sum equal to the monies received by the Sultana
company in Panama,
that is controlled by Calderón, paid by Harcourt
Holdings, also of
Panama, controlled by Reiche.

The money represents the $440.500 Dollars received by
Calderón and
the $80.000 Dollars paid to Alfonso Guardia on behalf
of Calderón,
who is Calderón's first cousin.

The payment, according to Calderóon is not
restitution or as an
admission of guilt, rather that the money is being
deposited with
the authorities in the event the fiscal (prosecutor)
and a competent
court declares that the money belongs to others -
person or corporation.

Yesterday's police action closed off the corner in
front of the Club
Union, on Avenida 3 and Calle 2 Rica that houses the
main offices of
the Corporación Fischel. More than 30 officers of the
Unidad Policial
de Intervencion (UIP) were stationed outside the
offices and main
Fischel pharmacy, allowing agents inside to complete
their duties.

Emilio Bruce, president of the Corporación Fischel
board of directors,

appeared mid morning to explain to reporters waiting
outside what was

happening inside and at the end of the day, about
6:15pm, he came out
of the building saying that agents were acting in a
professional and

competent manner.

He told reporters that the agents could not complete
their work
and would return today (Wednesday). The building was
sectioned off
and guards were posted.

Bruce made his way into the Club Union building where
a car was
waiting, while a crowd had gathered outside, chanting
"San Sebas",
"Carcel" and "Ladrones" among others.

"San Sebas" refers to the San Sebastian jail where
Corporación
Fischel president, Walter Reiche Fischel and lawyer
Randall Vargas
are being held.

Bruce was unmoved by the crowd and chants, taking the
opportunity
to 'shine' for news cameras and photographers.

While the agents were busy at the Fischel officers,
other agents
were sifting through the storage warehouses of the
Corporación
Cormar, where it is beleived Fischel stored it's
documents.

Authorities were clear to point out that the
Corporación Cormar was
not the object of the raid, just the documents
pertaining to Fishel.
Judge David Hernández and Fiscal Carlos Meléndez
ordered some 3.000
boxes which are believed to contain documents
relating to the Fischel
-Caja case.


*Storms leave 13 dead in Panama

At least 13 people were killed and 11,700 displaced
due to floods
caused by heavy storms and hurricanes hitting Panama
since last
week, according to the Civil Protection authorities
on Tuesday.

Two bodies were retrieved over the past hours and
three people
were still missing following the rain. The families
of the missing
people have asked the National Civil Protection
System (SINAPROC)
to keep on searching for them.

The government said the rains caused floods and
landslides that
destroyed 281 houses in different parts of the country.

Panama's Housing Minister, Balbina Herrera, said that
by the end
of the year the government will help those displaced
settle down.

The rains lasted from Thursday to Friday, but stopped
in the
following days.

Panamanian President Martin Torrijos declared a state
of emergency
in the flooded areas last week.

During the past 10 days, hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne
have battered
Grenada, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican
Republic, Panama,
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*Arias Buys Television Time to Send his Message

Óscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica (1986-1990)
and presidential pre-candidate in the 2006 elections,
purchased a five minute spot on national television to
reinforce his position that Costa Rica strengthen
controls
against corrupt public functionaries.

Arias lamented on the current situation surrounding the
Caja-Fischel and the direction the country has taken,
suggesting changes so that public funds will not be
squandered.

The former president applauded the work of the
Ministerio
Público and of the press and asked legislators for
law reforms
to avoid traffic of influence by public officials.


*Costa Rica Deports Possible Terrorists
Costa Rica deported the two men who tried to enter
the country
on Sunday using false European documents and who
officials fear
may have links to terrorists, the country's
immigration director
said Monday.

Immigration Director Marco Badilla said Costa Rica
chose to deport
the two, who may have been Jordanians, "for
convenience, because we
do not want to have people like that here" and to
avoid a drawn-out
court case.

Badilla said the men had been turned over to
officials in El Salvador
on Sunday and would be sent on to Honduras.

"From here, we will deport them to Guatemala,"
Honduran Immigration Director-General Ramon Romero
said.

Badilla said the men were supposedly headed to
Canada. "We cannot
confirm that we are dealing with terrorists, but
neither can we
discount the possibility that they have some link to
that type of
group," he said.

He said the men had Jordanian passports identifying
them as Ismail
Mohamad Nassar and Fawas Ne Meh Mousa. They had
presented Costa
Rican immigration officers with documents from
Belgium and France
identifying them as Maximilien O. Regout L.R.M and
Sylvain Marcel
Hurel Yannic, as they tried to enter Costa Rica
Sunday morning.

Badilla said the men told officials they had flown
from Jordan to
Spain on Sept. 5, and then traveled to Cuba and
Guatemala. They
said they purchased false passports there and then
went by road to
Honduras.

"I don't believe that version is reliable, because
the route is very complicated. What's more, they said
they paid $1,000 for the
documents, but they were very fine work. It can't be
that they were
charged that," Badilla said.

He said he was also suspicious because they tried to
bribe agents
at the airport so they could fly to Canada.


*Harris to be Investigated in Guatemala and Nicaragua

The daily Spanish newspaper La Nacion continues to
investigate
Bruce Harris and the recent "sex" scandal that has
resulted in
the man being fired from his position as head of
Casa-Alianza
for the last 15 years.

Bruce Harris was fired last week by Casa-Alianza
parent Covenant
House following a charge from an 18 year old Honduran
that Harris
had purchased sexual favours from the young man.

Harris admitted to his "15-Minute Mistake", however,
claims that
he did not commit any crime as the young man was not
a minor.

Honduran officials, however, are looking into the
conduct of Harris
and any illegal actions that may have come from the
incident. The boy
had been a resident at Casa Alianza in Honduras
during 2003.

The La Nacion reports that other countries are now
looking to the
affairs of Harris. Guatemala and Nicaragua have also
started
investigations into Harris.

According to the newspaper, they spoke with the
attorney the
"Derechos Humanos de Guatemala", Sergio Morales, by
telephone,
who told the La Nacion that they suspect that there
may be minors
in the shelters that may have had relations with Harris.

Morales said that occurred in Honduras may not be
crime, however,
it provides reason to initiate a "deep" investigation
in Guatemala.

Meanwhile, in Nicaragua, authorities have begun an
inquiry of the
Casa Aliana shelters in that country. Authorities are
looking into
the care and security of the minors sheltered there.

In Costa Rica, Casa Alianza does not have any
shelters and thus
Costa Rican authorities will not make any further
inquiries. However,
Rogelio Ramos, Minister of Public Security, added
that is any
complaints are received, his Ministry will act.

Casa Alianza in Costa Rica announced yesterday that
Mexican, Manuel
Fragoso, will replace Harris. The casa Alianza
website is still
unavailable.


*Revisión técnica list now watered down

The Consejo de Transporte Público has eliminated some
123 defects
that would cause a vehicle to fail the revisión
técnica, the
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes said Monday.

Among the defects that now will not jeopardize a taxi
driver
getting a sticker for his vehicle is a meter that
runs incorrectly.

However, motorists with seatbelts that do not
automatically roll
up when not in use can relax. That, too, has been
eliminated.

The relaxation of the vehicle inspection is part of a
deal that
officials made with striking truckers and taxi
drivers last Aug. 31.
Truckers and taxi drivers had blocked roads all over
the country.

Despite the deal, Riteve S y C, the company doing the
inspections,
said it would not change its policies until the
government took
formal action. The number of inspections plummeted as
drivers
awaited the changes.

Ovidio Pacheco, the new minister, said that safety
would not be
compromised despite the changes




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*If your last name begins with C through F, this
is your week to make a claim for your deposit at
Banco ELCA.

The Asociación Bancaria Costarricense (ABC), is
fulfilling
it's promise to make good on small deposits up to
¢500.000
colones. The payment is only available to individuals
and
not corporate entities.

The Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras
(SUGEF) is expected to make an announcement by the
end of
this month on the future of the bank


*Harris Admits to '15-Minute Mistake'
Bruce Harris, former head Caza Alianza - the Latin
American street kids' charity - fired after being
accused of paying a Honduran male teen-ager for sex,
acknowledged on Saturday that he had made a "15-
minute mistake."

Harris, who was awarded the Order of the British Empire
in 2000 for his work protecting homeless children in
Central America, was dismissed Friday by the
international
child welfare group Covenant House.

The charity said it acted against Harris, because he
recently
paid a 18-year-old Honduran boy for sexual favors.

While prostitution is not illegal in Honduras and the
age
of consent is 18, Harris has fought for the rights of
homeless
youths in the region and campaigned against sex
tourists.

"I have never been someone that hides behind lies, and
so I take responsibility, as I always have, for my
actions,
correct or incorrect. I don't want the children that
Casa Alianza
serves to pay for my private life," Harris said in an
e-mail
to Reuters.

Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said
Saturday that
Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica were opening
probes into
Harris's activities.

"We are talking to the security ministers of
Guatemala and
Costa Rica and we are going to investigate whether
this man
had improper, deviant relations with other youths,"
Alvarez said.


*Osvaldo Villalobos Charged
Almost two years following the start of the
investigation,
the Ministerio Público, yesterday presented formal
charges
against Osvaldo Villalobos Camacho, for suspected fraud
against dozens of investors who made deposits with the
company Ofinter.

The press office of the Poder Judicial confirmed the
charges
and that all parties to the case have been notified.

Villalobos has been in preventive detention for
almost two
years, since November 2002, waiting the outcome of the
investigation, that has been long in coming.

Late last year, Villalobos was allowed to serve his
preventive
detention under house arrest, but brought back to
jail in
February of this year, that is to expire on September
27.

*University Festival
Universidad Latina invites the public to enjoy a week of
celebration, including plays, fashion shows, an aerobics
championship, volleyball, a skateboarding tournament,
conferences, concerts, a music festival, movies and
more.
The celebration continues through Sept. 25 at the
school's
campus in San Pedro. Info: 283-2611

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Shame on Bruce Harris

First off, it is a horrendous shame when a child
welfare advocate is
found to be, secretly, almost a pedophile himself of
the worst kind.

It is a horrible situation indeed when a man who has
been awarded the
highest honor in the United Kingdom for his child
advocacy -- The Order
of the British Empire -- by Queen Elizabeth II
herself, is found to be
committing worse acts than many of the so called "sex
tourists" Harris
spent years trying to entrap.

What an irony that this man is found having sex, not
with a girl, but
WITH A BOY! But, the fact that the "boy" in question
was 18 years old
will probably get Bruce off the hook for his indecent
and immoral
behavior. It would be interesting to find out if
this boy was one of
Casa Alianza's clients. I hope also that the
authorities investigate
other employees of Casa Alianza to make sure that
this was an isolated
incident.


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* More Revelations in Fischel Scandal

Yesterday, it was revealed that former manager of
the Corporación Fischel, Marvin Barrantes, received
almost $1 Million Dollars, all coming from the
Finnish loan.

Investigators discovered that the Sociedad O Fishel
R Panamá, issued a payment of $938.778 Dollars to a
private
bank account held by Barrantes at the Bac Panamá bank.

The account was very active, according to the records.
Large money transfers began on January 27, 2003, with
a $258.803, then $100.000 in February of that same year
and another $90.500 followed in March. In September
of 2003,
$352.000 was deposited to the account and another
$82.475 in
January of this year.

Harcourt Holdings, a company held by Walter Reiche
Fischel,
also deposited to the Barrantes account the sum of
$45.935.

Barrantes left the Corporación Fischel last month,
even though
it appears he was the best paid manager at the
pharmaceutical firm.


*Bolaños Gives Back the Money

A report in the daily Spanish newspaper La Nacion, tells
that former legislative deputy and former director of
the
Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), Gerardo
Bolaños,
who is also a partner in the law firm of former
president
Rafael Angel Calderón, gave back to the Ministerio
Público a
deposit certificate in the amount of ¢28.4 million
colones.

The money was on deposit for a term of one year and
equals the
sum of $90.000 Dollars and $62.000 Dollars, that were
received
by Bolaños and his wife, Ligia Céspedes, from
Harcourt Holdings,
a Panamanian firm held by Walter Reiche Fischel.

Bolaños told La Nacion that the devolution was part
of a deal he
made with the "Fiscalia" - the prosecutor's office.

Bolaños is currently under house arrest for his
involvement in
receiving funds from the Corporación Fischel with
respect to
the Finnish credit loan to the CCSS.

Bolaños said that the money is the "total" amount he
received
from Harcourt Holdings.

Former president Rafael Angel Calderón who also received
$440.500 from Harcourt said he respects the decision
by his
law firm partner, but he has not given thought to
returning
the money he received.

Calderón told news reporters waiting outside his
lawyer's
office, that "our circumstances are different. If don
Gerardo
did so, it is part of his strategy for a legal
defense. I
respect it."

Gonzalo Castellón, Calderón's lawyer, added that his
client's
case is different from the others involved in this
case. "Don
Rafael has not been indicted nor can he be considered a
'funcionario' (sic), thus the investigation should be
centered
if the origin of the money is legal or illegal".

*Fraudster Arrested in Panama

Panamanian businessman Thomas E. McMurrain has been
arrested
there on the strength of a U.S. district court
indictment
alleging he ran a fraudulent ponzi scheme from 1997
to 2000
in the United States.

The indictment said that McMurrain ran a chain of
pay-day
loan storefronts and induced people to invest in the
operation
with the promise of high interest.

The indictment says he spent nearly $3 million in
investor money
for unauthorized purposes, including personal
expenses and day
trading. The total loss to victims is $9 million,
said the
indictment.

In Panama, McMurrain ran San Cristobal Land
Development Inc.,
a company that sold land, mostly to foreigners, near
Boca de Toro
on the Caribbean coast.

Panamanian journalist Okke Ornstein alledged that the
San Cristobal
"noni plantations" were fraudulent, using misleading
advertising
and sales techniques. But, instead of the Panamanian
government
investigating the allegations, it supported
McMurrain's use of
outdated, draconian, slander and libel laws to
harrass the journalists
who were attempting to expose the fraud.

Such laws exist throughout Latin America, including
Costa Rica, and
are often used by the oligarchies in these countries
to shut up
anyone who objects to their crimes.



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*Fischel / Caja Investigation continues

Yesterday, with a court order in hand, prosecutors
accompanied by OIJ agents raided the law offices of
Calderón y Asociados, of which the ex-president is a
partner and the house of Gerardo Bolaños, also a partner
in the law firm.

Agents confiscated from the Bolaños house and the law
firm, large amounts of material, along with computers
and
other evidence they deem pertinent to the case.

Authorities asked Bolaños and his wife Ligia María
Céspedes
to accompany them to the tribunals for questioning with
respect to their role in the Fischel-Caja case.

Bolaños is accused of cashing a "cashier's cheque" in
the amount
of $90.000 dollars, coming from Harcourt Holdings
accounts, held
by Walter Reiche and forming part of the payments
received by many
public functionaries, which are one-by-one being
discovered.

Late in the afternoon, Bolaños was formally placed
under "house
arrest". He will not have to spend time in jail like
the others
so far, however, his movements are restricted by a
request made by
the Ministerio Público to the courts.

Bolaños, a former legislative deputy, former director
of the Caja
and partner in the law firm with former president
Calderón, will
remain under house arrest and is restricted from
leaving the
country for the next three months.


*Pacheco Announces Cabinet Replacements
As expected, President Abel Pacheco, announced his
cabinet
replacements following a flurry of resignations thes
past two weeks.

Federico Carrillo Zurcher, a 39 year old lawyer and
economist,
has been named to Hacienda (Revenue), replacing
Alberto Dent.
Carrillo said he will dedicate his work to the Plan
Fiscal,
the new tax reform being debated.

First Vice President of the Republic, Lineth Saborío,
will
take over at the Ministerio de la Presidencia,
filling the
shoes left behind by Ricardo Toledo. Saborío now
holds two
key government positions.

Ovidio Pacheco (no relation to the president) will move
from Labour to the Ministerio de Obras Publica y
Transporte
(MOPT), replacing Javier Chaves.

Manuel González will take his place at Comercio
Exterior and
Fernando Trejos will go to Trabjo (Labour), who will be
resgining his post at Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social
(IMAS)
for his new job.


*Gasoline Increases; Short Work Week Proposed To Save
Fuel
Consumption
The cost of gasoline hit the pumps this morning, a
whopping
7% or 23 colones in the price of a litre of super
gasoline.

The government, in an attempt to reduce consumption
of the
costly fluid, is proposing a four day work week for all
government employees.

The plan is to add a 1 1/2 hour to each work day from
Monday
to Thursday and have Friday off.

The plan is only one that is studied by a special
commission
in way to save gasoline consumption, which is
expected to be
tabled on October 1.


*Vets May Soon Have Access to HMO Here

American Legion members and other U.S. veterans will
hear
today about plans to create a new health and
hospitalization
system for them.

"This is the first time that the vets not covered
here in
Costa Rica will have a chance to be part of a medical
plan
that will address their needs and be affordable,"
said Howard
L. Singer. He is the commander of the SFC Raymond
Edison Jones
Jr. American Legion Post 16 Costa Rica.

Singer told Legion members in a meeting announcement
that
staffers from Clinica Biblica will be at the meeting.
The
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*Some Banca Elca Depositors Can Get Money Back,
Starting Today

Some Banco Elca depositors will begin getting money
back from
the institution today under the auspices of the
Asociación
Bancaria Costarricense.

The association which supervises a guarantee fund for
private
banks, said that deposits less than 500,000 colons
(some $1,235)
would be distributed over the course of the coming
month.

The association is dividing depositors up according
to the
first letter of their last name. For example, Those
with names
beginning with "A" or "B" can apply by calling the
bank between
today and Friday. Those with names beginning with "RÂ’
through "Z"
have to wait until Oct. 11 through Oct. 15, said the
association.

More information is available at the bank at 221-3355
and 258-3029,

extensions 160, 161 and 162, said the association.


*Costa Rica To Hold Presidency of the International
Criminal Court
Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Costa Rican ambassador to the
United Nations, will be presiding over the next year's
session of the International Criminal Court.

Stagno was chosen by the Assembly of States in it's
last session held at The Hague, from September 6 to 10.

Stagno has bee a permanent representative of Costa Rica
and the UN since 2002.

*Gasoline Prices to Jump Tomorrow
Tonight at the stroke of midnight, gasoline prices will
increase a whopping 7% or ¢23 colones for a litre of
super
gasoline.

The price will jump tonight from the current ¢326.5
to ¢349.
Regular gasoline will go from ¢312.5 to ¢335.

*Independence Torch to Arrive Today

Following more than 2.500 kilometers of travel
through Central
America, today the Antorcha de Independencia -
Independence Torch
- is expected to come to Costa Rica.

The flame is expected to get to Costa Rica around
10am, which will
be carried by studends of the seven provinces that
make up Costa Rica.

The torch is coming from Nicaragua, entering at the
northern
border point of Peñas Blancas in Guanacaste.

Along with all of Central America, Costa Rica on
September 15,
celebrates its independence from Spain which was
achieved in 1821.

*Mercosur, EU hope to meet trade deadline
The South American trade bloc Mercosur and the
European Union
said after a ministerial meeting Sunday they hope to
conclude
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*Sala IV Orders Costa Rica's Removal from Iraq "Coalition"
The Sala IV constitutional court ruled Wednesday that President Abel Pacheco and the executive branch actedunconstitutionally when the administration gave supportto the United States and the coalition of allies against Iraq.
A foreign ministry statement a few hours later said thecountry would send a diplomatic letter early today askingthe United States to remove the name of Costa Rica fromthe list of coalition members.
The high court’s decision was unanimous. All seven magistratesagreed that a March 19, 2003, agreement by Pacheco and theforeign minister was an act contrary to the Costa RicanConstitution, the country’s declaration of perpetual neutrality, the United Nations and international law. The date is the day war started in Iraq.
The court ordered the executive branch to do what is necessary to delete the name of Costa Rica from the list of coalition allies on the Web pages of the White House.
The administration promised to send a diplomatic letter toWashington this morning in response to the decision, askingthat Costa Rica's name be removed.
*More Cabinet Ministers resign from Pacheco Government
Javier Chaves, Ministro de Obras Publica y Transporte (MOPT)and Alberto Trejos, Ministro de Comercio Exterior (COMEX)decided to call it quits yesterday.
Last week, Alberto Dent, Ministro de Hacienda (Revenu )quit his post and only Monday of this week, Ricardo Toledo,Ministro por la Presidencia (Presidency) threw in the towel.
That brings a total of four ministers to leave the Pachecogovernment in less than two weeks.
Resigning also yesterday were Anabelle González, chief TLCnegotiator and Gabriela Llobet, Vice Minister of Comex alsoleft their jobs. The joined Trejos in making their announcementto the press.
Last week, Silena Alvarado, Vice Minister at Hacienda and RonulfoJiménez, economic coordinator followed Dent's departure.
Yesterday's departures brings the total number of resignationsfrom the Pacheco government since taking the helm in 2002, to 14.
*Eliseo Vargas Ordered to Six Months Detention
Eliseo Vargas Garcia, former president of the CajaCostarricense del Seguro Social (CCSS), will spend the nextsix months in preventive detention.
The Fiscalia has asked for a year preventive detention againstthe man who is in the centre of the storm surrounding theCorporacion Fischel and a multi million dollar credit.
Walter Reiche Fischel is currently in preventive detention,along with Corporacion Fischel lawyer, Randall Vargas Pérez.
Former Costa Rican president, Rafael Angel Calderón, is also being
investigated for his acceptance of $440.000 dollars from Fischel.
*Pedophile Arrested
The Unidad Contra la Explotación Sexual del Ministerio deSeguridad Pública under the direction of the Fiscalía de Delitos Sexuales de San José, arrested a 42 year old manidentified only by his last name, Rodríguez, for havingsexual relations with minors.
Rodríguez was arrested following a year long investigationwhen his house was raided by police. Police confiscatedpornographic videos, sexual paraphernalia and 60 fotos ofyouths that were definitely under the age of majority.
*Campaign Initiated to Outlaw Corporal Punishment
The Defensor de los Habitantes and a group of child advocate agencies are kicking off a campaign today — el Día de los Niños — against corporal punishment.
*Movimiento Civico Nacional Threatens renewed Strike,demands meeting
The movement behind the recent roadblocks and strikes isthreatening to return to the streets, saying that the government is dragging its feet on delivering on its promises.The movement, which caused massive road blockages two weeksago also said the country was facing a severe politicalcrises not only because of the strikes it generated butbecause of the "tremendous revelations of corruption inthe highest levels of the governing political class."
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Earthquakes are now occuring in parts of the world that do not normally have them, and they will increase all over the place as time goes on, so EVERYONE should read this and remember it.
These survival techniques are many times EXACTLY the opposite of what you have "always heard," so ammend your earthquake survival strategies accordingly.
John
-------- Original Message --------Subject: [Captain_nibiru] What You Were Taught About Earthquakes Was WrongFrom: "captain_nibiru2003" <dewerly@yahoo.com>Date: Fri, September 3, 2004 11:00 amTo: Captain_nibiru@yahoogroups.com


READ EVERY word of this important post!
In a message dated 9/2/2004 2:43:19 PM PacificStandard Time, atasha@starlink2.freeserve.co.uk writes:
What You Were Taught About Earthquakes Was Wrong
EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE"TRIANGLE OF LIFE", Edited by LarryLinn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04.
My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief andDisaster Manager of theAmerican Rescue Team International (ARTI), theworld's most experiencedrescue team. The information in this article willsave lives in an earthquake.
I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings,worked with rescue teamsfrom 60 countries, founded rescue teams in severalcountries, and I am amember of many rescue teams from many countries. Iwas the United Nationsexpert in Disaster Mitigation (UNX051 -UNIENET) fortwo years. I have worked at every major disaster inthe world since 1985, except for simultaneousdisasters.
The first building I ever crawled inside of was aschool in Mexico Cityduring the 1985 earthquake. Every child was undertheir desk. Every childwas crushed to the thickness of their bones. Theycould have survived bylying down next to their desks in the aisles. Itwas obscene, unnecessaryand I wondered why the children were not in theaisles. I didn't at thetime know that the children were told to hide undersomething.
Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weightof the ceilings fallingupon the objects or furniture inside crushes theseobjects, leaving a spaceor void next to them. This space is what I callthe" triangle of life". Thelarger the object, the stronger, the less it willcompact. The less theobject compacts, the larger the void, the greaterthe probability that theperson who is using this void for safety will notbe injured. The next timeyou watch collapsed buildings, on television, countthe "triangles" yousee formed. They are everywhere.
It is the most common shape, you will see, in acollapsed building. Theyare everywhere. I trained the Fire Department ofTrujillo (population 750,000) in how to survive,take care of their families, and to rescue othersin earthquakes.
The chief of rescue in the Trujillo Fire Departmentis a professor at Trujillo University. Heaccompanied me everywhere. He gave personaltestimony:
"My name is Roberto Rosales. I am Chief ofRescue in Trujillo. When I was11 years old, I was trapped inside of a collapsedbuilding. My entrapmentoccurred during the earthquake of 1972 that killed70,000 people. I survived in the "triangle oflife" that existed next to my brother'smotorcycle. My friends who got under the bed andunder desks were crushedto death [he gives more details, names, addressesetc.]...I am the livingexample of the "triangle of life". Mydead friends are the example of "duckand cover".
TIPS DOUG COPP PROVIDES:
1) Everyone who simply "ducks andcovers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE is crushed todeath -- Every time, without exception. People whoget underobjects, like desks or cars, are always crushed.
2) Cats, dogs and babies all naturally oftencurl up in the fetal position. You should too in anearthquake. It is a natural safety/survivalinstinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Getnext to an object, next toa sofa, next to a large bulky object that willcompress slightly but leavea void next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type ofconstruction to be in during anearthquake. The reason is simple: the wood isflexible and moves with theforce of the earthquake. If the wooden buildingdoes collapse, large survival voids are created.Also, the wooden building hasless concentrated, crushing weight. Brickbuildings will break into individual bricks. Brickswill cause many injuries but less squashed bodiesthan concrete slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and anearthquake occurs, simplyroll off the bed. A safe void will exist around thebed. Hotels can achievea much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simplyby posting a sign onthe back of the door of every room, tellingoccupants to lie down on thefloor, next to the bottom of the bed during anearthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens while you arewatching television and you cannot easily escape bygetting out the door or window, then lie down andcurl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, orlarge chair.
6) Everybody who gets under a doorway when
buildings collapse is killed. How? If you standunder a doorway and thedoorjamb falls forward or backward you will becrushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam fallssideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. Ineither case, you will be killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have adifferent "moment of frequency" (theyswing separately from the main part of the building).Thestairs and remainder of the building continuouslybump into each other until structural failure ofthe stairs takes place.
The people who get on stairs before they fail arechopped up by the stairtreads. They are horribly mutilated. Even if thebuilding doesn't collapse,stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likelypart of the building tobe damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed bythe earthquake, theymay collapse later when overloaded by screaming,fleeing people. They should always be checked forsafety, even when the rest of the building isnot damaged.
8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings OrOutside Of Them If Possible -It is much better to be near the outside of thebuilding rather than theinterior. The farther inside you are from theoutside perimeter of the building the greater theprobability that your escape route will be blocked;
9) People inside of their vehicles arecrushed when the road above fallsin an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; whichis exactly what happenedwith the slabs between the decks of the NimitzFreeway. The victims of theSan Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of theirvehicles. They were allkilled. They could have easily survived by gettingout and sitting or lyingnext to their vehicles, says the author. Everyonekilled would have survived if they had been able toget out of their cars and sit or lie nextto them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet highnext to them, exceptfor the cars that had columns fall directly acrossthem
10) I discovered, while crawling insideof collapsed newspaper officesand other offices with a lot of paper, that paperdoes not compact. Largevoids are found surrounding stacks of paper.
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One of our investigative reporters has just
filed the story on Harken
that was promised yesterday. He is still
digging, but this is what he
has so far, and it is an amazing story that ties
in directly with the
investor's loss, and shows a possible way out of
this situation.
This is also an education in how the world
really works, for those who
care to learn something for once instead of just
arguing and debating
all their lives and not learning anything.
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The connection between the situation with Harken
Energy, the Gold
mining
situation,
the Brothers, the Investments run by Banco
National loosing so much in
value in 2004,
the Bank Elca and other banks which have
recently been taken over,
the recent run on BAC, and the recent Strike.
What do these things have to do with each other ?
Let us take some history lessons, the CIA and
other governmental
operations
including the UK MI5, have had intelligence
economic teams here for
decades.
They have via their own discussions with their
elected representives in
the US and UK,
admitted to this as a way to keep control over a
country, specifically
Costa Rica as per
in the aftermath of the O North scandal of the
1980s.
The Harken Energy deal with Costa Rica was one
of the largest offshore
oil drilling
deals in this part of the world. It offers
Costa Rica the ability to
elimate its national debt
totally, and to elimate its need to collect
taxes of any sorts from its
people. In effect making
Costa Rica, independently wealth much like a
small middle eastern
state.
Well, Costa Rica after making a deal with Harken
decided under this
administration
to close the door to this, even after a contract
committing Costa Rica
to this was signed.
Not a wise move, when one looks at the history
of Harkin Oil and the
history of
Central America.
Next Costa Rica, backs off on the gold mining
contracts. Now the
environmental
issues are valid concerns but they are solveable
issues, one can mine
and drill for
oil without doing significant environmental
damage as long as Costa
Rica
monitors the environmental safe guards and does
not turn away from
looking.
Once, Costa Rica walked away from Harkin which
was a jewel in the
current
US president's chest and now has a former US
senator working as a
consultant
on this situation with Costa Rica, all sorts of
strange things start
happening.
There is a mysterious case in the North which
via an indirect
connection
involves the Brothers of Costa Rica. The
Brothers have been for the
last
19 years the life blood of making the Costa Rica
economic engine run.
The governments have danced around their extra
governmental agency
connections
and so forth. But let us face some reality,
when one of the brothers a
couple of
years ago became the subject of crew of hit men
who had orders to kill
him, who
came to the rescue ? The CIA and their good
friends the Mossad,
who picked up the brother and dropped him in
Israel for a while until
the hit team
was elimated.
So who better to know where the blocks are in
the Costa Rican economic
engine
than these intelligence agency ?
Gee does not George Bush Sr get CIA briefings
every single day ?
You can see the recent Michael Moore's film on
9/11 to confirm this and
other
facts.
So if they know where the blocks are why not
remove them.
The big one was the Brothers, via a series of
acts via an informal
channel
between Canada and Costa Rica a clear violation
of international
channels, laws
and treaties and lack there of. That should of
been a major tip off to
the Costa Rican
government what was going on here. However
their US governmental
handlers
played them like a flute knowing their greed ,
came up with this
concept
of the
Costa Rican government seizing some of the
Brother's money and once
they seized the money they knew that the
government could not get its
hands off of it.
Suddenly, there is a mounting debt crisis here
in Costa Rica due to the
mismanagement
of the funds of the country and the shutdown of
the Brothers. Who were
the cash providers
to the growth cycle of the country. The
leadership not being able to
admit it screwed up
went down this road by claiming that after 19
yrs of these people
operating here it was
a fraud. The US then got Costa Rica to go after
a whole series of
other
fish to elimate
that cash flow into the country leaving the
country at the begging
table
of the IMF and
others for loans. This begging table was deep
enought that Costa Rica
even went
along with providing its support for the war in
Iraq. Althought this
has or is in the process
of changing.
Now that these pieces of the economic pump have
been broken, and the
talks
with Harkin opened and then suddenly closed all
sorts of other
mysterious problems
happen. Banco National and their bond
investment fund, looses some
huge
percentage
of its fund's value sparking a run on the
investment. ONE major
problem
with this
story, in bond analysis you do not mark a bond
down to its street value
unless the
organization issuing the bond STOPS paying
interest on the bond. NONE
of the
bonds held in Banco National Portfolio stopped
paying interest. So
what
gives ?
This was chalked up as some inexperienced at the
BANK ?
I doubt it. This is how you crash an economic
system .
The Costa Rican Government still not getting the
message about Harkin
are they ?
OK, more stuff happens.
Banco Elca and other banks suddenly gets closed
over mismanagement by
its
management team. No one is claiming that the
banks are broke are they?
So what is the story here ?
Something is fundamentally wrong.
The Costa Rican Government is under pressure to
elimate the rentista,
and other
sources of income from abroad and to impose a
rought tax package and to
impose
massive budget cuts, under pressure from the IMF.
Still not getting the message about Harkin ?
In the mean time, more stuff is flying this
mysterious run on BAC which
could of
turned Costa Rica into a mess overnight.
BAC via being in more than Costa Rica was able
to overcome this storm
and basically
go we are alright. Also a good sign that BAC
does not have the CIA on
the inside of
the Bank.
Harkin calling anyone listening ??
In June of this year just days after Costa
Rica's leadership announces
that
it is withdrawning its support for the War in
Iraq. Costa Rica is
mysterious placed
on the OECD Black list just making it harder for
Costa Rica to attract
investment
capital. Looks more to be a punishment for the
withdrawal by a NAZI
organization.
Finally, after this mysterious event we have a
nationwide strike
inwhich
it was almost
a coup according to the leadership of Costa Rica.
Is anyone listening ? Harkin calling ?
So what is going on here ?
The close tie ins between Harkin, the varies
Great Powers, and the
events of the last few
years here in Costa Rica are crystal clear.
Someone in power wants to
put the
screws to the people of Costa Rica leaving them
no choice but to drill
for oil or
economically drop dead. Yet, via the gameship
of the CR government
they
are
actually helping themselves to screw their own
people's economic
needs,
and
their investors economics into the ground.
Something that the CIA was
betting
on based on their 20 yrs of gathering informaiton.
So what to do ?
Well, you can be stubborn about Harkin and end
up in an Argentina like
situation
in the future or you can go ok Harkin, we want
this BS over with.
We want Costa Rica declared to be a 100% tax
free state, eg no taxes
what
so ever from its people for jack, and we want
the Brothers and their
special deals back in biz. We also want a
massive bond placed to
protect
the environment so that we do not have a Valdez
disaster and got to
deal
with the International courts for the money.
This way this quiet
economic
warfare being waged comes to an end and Costa
Rica, its people, and
its investors come out the winner. Instead of
wondering what in the
flying
hell else are the guys in the CIA going to do
next here to get this
message out ?
Enjoy the Pure Vida while you can and have a
clean set of undergarments
available for the next event
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