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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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