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*Pacheco's energy plan designed to save millions
Government officials have announced a plan to save an
estimated $5 to
$10 million in oil and gasoline monthly over the next
six months.
The approach is a top-down one in which officials
will try to cut down
on highway congestion by changing work hours in the
greater metropolitan
area.
The plan is voluntary but could be made obligatory if
the price of oil
rises much higher.
The three-part plan involves a complex publicity
campaign coupled with
changes in work hours and efforts to reduce road
congestion.
The government would have its work force on the job
longer each day in
exchange for a four-day week. The theory is that
employees who commute
will use more precious petroleum fuel than employees
who are on their
day off one of five work days a week.
Changes in the work hours would have to be approved
by the Ministerio
de Trabajo and the various unions involved.
*"Me They Threaten"
President Abel Pacheco shrugs off the recent death
threats made against
him. Pacheco told reporters that "when I was young I
used to arm myself
when these things occurred. Now, why arm myself?"
Pacheco was commenting on the death threat he
received on Sunday, from
a call received by 911, where the caller told said
that Pacheco would die
if RodrÃguez got house arrest.
Police reviewing the 911 calls log discovered that
the call came from a
cellular phone in Miami and have contacted
authorities in Florida.
Asked if the actions by the FiscalÃa against
RodrÃguez were correct, he
said that "why handcuff a man when he is not a
threat to escape. And why
the perrera?", referring to the police wagon used to
transport
RodrÃguez to the court house from the airport.
Pacheco added that the explanations he got to his
questions were for the
safety of the life of the former president.
Pacheco took a moment to remind Costa Ricans that it
is not the president
who decides the fate of an accused, but rather, the
Poder Judicial.
*RodrÃguez Continues To Deny Any Wrongdoing
Miguel Angel RodrÃguez continues to maintain his
innonence and denies
any wrongdoing in receing funds from government of
Taiwan, the French
telecommunications firm Alcatel and Abengoa, the firm
that won the
contract to bury all overhead cables in downtown San
José.
While under house arrest, the former president of
Costa Rica and until
last week, Secretary General of the Organization of
American States
(OAS), RodrÃguez, continues to be interviewed by the
FiscalÃa (the
prosecutor's office) as they investigate the
accusations of corruption
by RodrÃguez while in office.
In the case of the Taiwanese payment, RodrÃguez's
lawyer, Rafael
Gairaud, said that that his client told prosecutors
that he was
associated with the Panamanian company that received
us$400.000 dollars
from the government of Taiwan, however the payment
was a loan and not a
"dávida" (graft) or any type of prize.
In reference to Alcatel, RodrÃguez continues to
maintain that the monies
he received from his friend and former Housing
Minister and director of
the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE),
José Antonio Lobo, was
also a loan, a loan to help him finance his campaign
to become Secretary
General of the oAS.
And what about the us$100.000 dollars he received
from Abengoa?
Gairaud explained that the money was paid to his
client in 2004, three
years after RodrÃguez leaving office. Gairaud was
emphatic that there
is no connection between that payment and RodrÃguez
while in the
presidency.
Basically, RodrÃguez is not denying having received
funds from the
various sources - the paper trail and banking records
are too
overwhelming - but denies any wrongdoing in accepting
the payments and
is vehement that the payments were never any form of
payoff or kickback
or bribe.
RodrÃguez continues his detention for the next six
months in his
apartment rather than jail. The FiscalÃa has appealed
the judge's
decision for house arrest, wanting nine months of
jail time for the
former president. The appeal was filed yesterday and
a decision is
expected soon.
Meanwhile, RodrÃguez's lawyer is also appealing the
judge's order. The
appeal is reduce or eliminate the order to pay a
¢250.000.000 colones
bond or about us$555.000 dollars at today's exchange
rate. The judge
ordered that RodrÃguez pay the bond within 10 days
(last Saturday).
RodrÃguez Is Not Without Friends
RodrÃguez is not without support in his fight against
the accusations
of corruption.
A story by Telenoticias reveals that at least five
individuals, from
the moment RodrÃguez was arrested aboard his flight
from Washington to
the time the judge dicated house arrest and bail for
the former
president, have presented petitions of Habeas Corpus
before the
Constitutional Court kwown as Sala IV.
The petitions are aimed at helping RodrÃguez,
claiming that the detention
of and the posting of a bond of ¢250.000.000 colones
by the former
president is unconstitutional.
The petitions are against the actions of the Corte
Suprema de Justicia,
the Juzgado Penal del Primer Circuito de San José,
the FiscalÃa General
de la República, the Ministerio Público and one
against Franciso
Dall'Anese, Fiscal General.
The petitions are asking the Constitutional Court to
determine if he
actions by the prosecutors and the courts is correct
and valid.
*Taiwan Explains Aid to Costa Rica
Repeating suggestions that China's meddling might be
behind stories
about alleged political donations by Taiwan to its
Central American
allies, the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(MOFA) yesterday
sent a note to its Costa Rican counterpart explaining
the purpose of
funds it had supposedly given the country's former
leader.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen said in a
legislative
question-and-answer session that from all information
available he
had reason to suspect China was involved in bringing
up the accusations.
Chen, however, also admitted the ministry should
review a mechanism
monitoring how allies use Taiwan's aid.
Ministry spokesman Michel Lu said the note, which
answered the Costa
Rican government's queries about the US$400,000 the
ministry allegedly
donated to former president Miguel Angel RodrÃguez in
2001 and 2002,
arrived at Taiwan's embassy in Costa Rica yesterday.
Ambassador to Costa Rica Wu Tzu-dan told the Central
News Agency that
Taiwan had never given political donations to its
allies.
"All our foreign aid and cooperation projects with
allies are conducted
on a government-to-government basis," the ambassador
said.
"Our government has never given political
contributions to any
individuals or political parties of its allies. The
embassy has been
operating as usual and has not been affected by the
donation reports,"
Wu said.
*FISCHEL-CAJA
Eliseo Vargas "Will Tell All"
Eliseo Vargas, former president of the Caja
Costarricense de Seguro
Social (CCSS) and who is currently in preventive
detention in a Cartago
jail, is said to have made a deal with the FiscalÃa
(prosecutor's office),
for information surrounding the Fischel-Caja scandal
for all charges and
accusations be dropped against his daughter.
Vargas was detained following the detention of Walter
Reiche Fischel,
president of the Corporación Fischel and Fischel
laywer, Randall Vargas,
over the multi million dollar loan from the
government of Finland to the
CCSS.
More than us$9.000.000 dollars was paid to Fischel as
a commission to
negotiate the purchase of medical equipment for the
CCSS from the
us$39.000.000 loan.
Former president Rafael Angel Calderóm has been
implicated along with
others for taking a cut of the commission. The
FiscalÃa is continuing the
investigation.
Andrea Vargas, daughter of Eliseo Vargas, is one of
those being
investigated, when investigators discovered a payment
of us$23.700 to
Purdy Motors for the purchase of a 2002 Toyota Rav4
that was registered
in the name of Andrea Vargas Barboza.
The Ministerio Público says that car was given to
Andrea as a form of
payoff for her father.
The former head of the CCSS has been behind bars
since Septmber 7 as
prosecutors demanded preventive detention fearing the
man may skip the
country and/or impede their investigation is allowed
to remain at
liberty.
Vargas is asking the Ministerio Público that his
detention be under house
arrest as is the case of former president Miguel
Angel RodrÃguez and José
Antonio Lobo and will "tell all" to the FiscalÃa de
Delitos Económicos y
Anticorrupción, if the FiscalÃa not involve his
daugther.
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