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*Could Figueres Be Next?
The Spanish language daily La Nación reports today
that former president José MarÃa Figueres Olsen
received us$900.000 dollars from the French
telecommunications firm Alcatel during the period of
2000-2003 to provide assistance in promoting their
telecommunications technology.
José MarÃa Figueres Olsen is the third former
president in the last few months to be linked to
having received large sums of money from companies
dealing with the government.
Fuigeres was contracted by H. F. Desarrollos
Interdisciplinarios S. A. (H.F. DISA), that is
controlled by the Roberto Hidalgo Araya, who was
adviser to the Figuered administration of 1994-1998.
The La Nación says that Hidalgo turned to Figueres for
help for his knowledge in the promoting the telecom
technology and his experience in business.
Figueres is a member of the Board of Digital Nations
Consortium (since 2000), a new program launched by
MIT's Lab in the USA and since late 2000 became
Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (WEF),
overseeing the Centre for the Global Agenda, based in
Geneva, Switzerland.
The WEF is one of the most influential private
organizations in the world. The World Economic Forum
is an independent international organization committed
to improving the state of the world.
La Nación says it tried to reach Figueres by telephoe,
however they were unable to in time for today's
edition, due to the time difference between Costa Rica
and Switzerland.
Figueres' legal representative in Costa Rica did
however tell La Nación that the contract with H. F.
DISA is legal and based on the knowledge don José
MarÃa has in the field on an international level.
Mario Soto Baltodano said that there is no conflict of
interest, the ex-president is free to provide services
to companies that are providers to the state.
Nobel Prize winner, Óscar Arias Sánchez, who belongs
to the same party as Figueres, the Partido Liberacion
Nacional (PLN), considers the actions by Figueres "a
betrayal to the ideals and inheritance of Don Pepe
(José MarÃa Figueres Ferrer)".
Don Pepe, father of Figueres Olsen, defeated Rafael
Angel Calderón's father (also named Rafael Angel
Calderón) following the civil war in 1948 and later
proved to be one of Costa Rica's most influential
leaders, as head of the Founding Junta of the Second
Republic of Costa Rica.
Under Ferrer's leadership, the Junta made vast reforms
in policy and civil rights. Women and blacks gained
the vote, the communist party was banned, banks were
nationalized, and presidential term limits
established. Ferrer was immensely popular, creating a
political legacy.
Figueres Olsen is the third former president in the
last few months to be linked to having received large
sums of money from companies dealing with the
government. Former president Rafael Angel Calderón
(1990-1994) is sitting in jail, while Miguel Angel
RodrÃguez (1998-2002) is under house arrest, both
being accused of corruption and illegal enrichment.
COMMENT: If every former US government official were
not allowed to take “consulting fees”
or a job from US government contractors, then probably
most of the ex whatevers in the US
would have to go to jail. And then there are those,
like Dick Cheney, who used to be CEO
for the major government contractor Halliburton, which
has been awarded massive government
contracts WITHOUT competitive bidding, while Dickie
has been PRESIDENT OF VICE, yet,
no one makes an issue of THAT, or the fact that
Pacheco has taken money from the same pot
for his election campaign. Sometimes it seems that
all of this worldÂ’s governments are
corrupt.
*Pacheco To Apologize For RodrÃguez Corruption
President Abel Pacheco announced Tuesday that he will
apologize for having promoted ex-president Miguel
Angel RodrÃguez Echeverria to become Secretary General
of the Organization of American States (OAS).
According to Pacheco, he will apologize during the
upcoming summit of the Group of Rio, scheduled in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, for November before each of the
heads of state of Latin America for "promoting a
certain person," referring to RodrÃguez.
RodrÃguez resigned as OAS Secretary General after
being at the post for less than a month, under
tremendous pressures from within the OAS and Costa
Rica and the issuance of an International Warrant,
that placed him on an INTERPOL list of being one of 18
Costa Ricans wanted worldwide, because of his
involvement in a corruption scandal in Costa Rica.
RodrÃguez is accused of receiving payment from the
French telecommunications firm, Alcatel, with respect
to a us$149 million dollar contract to provide the
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) with
400.000 GSM cellular telephone lines.
RodrÃguez is also being investigated for having
received money from the government of Taiwan while in
the presidential office.
RodrÃguez is currently under house arrest for six
months, while an appeal by the FiscalÃa (prosecutor's
office) is scheduled to be heard tomorrow (Thursday).
The Group of Rio is made up of 19 countries:
Argentina, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The meeting will also be participated by
representative of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
*Study Reveals Costa Rica in Need of Change
The latest report "Informe del Estado de la Nación" -
state of the nation - reveals many truths about Costa
Ricans.
The study includes more than 200 persons interviewed
about their "Switzerland of Central America" and where
the nation in headed.
The latest report tells of the changes Costa Rica has
seen:
- In one year the country went from 3.050.556 to
4.169.730 inhabitants
- There are more people living in urban areas than the
year before
- Costa Rican has more foreigners now than ever before
- The longevity rate went from 76.8 to 78.4 years
The report also shows that in the next thirty years
for every person celebrating their 15th birthday,
another is celebrating their 65th. The study reveals
that there will be more older and less births.
Costa Rica has more rich and more poor. Murder,
violent deaths and deaths from traffic accidents
continue to increase, at a time when people are no
longer believing in their politicians.
Those interviewed were asked if they would support a
coup d'etat. Surprisingly, most said yes. Experts
believe that that means the country is needing of
change.
*Rock-throwers attack police over dividing wall
Fuerza Pública officers battled rock-throwers and
dodged an occasional bullet at a confrontation between
the poor and the middle class.
Eight suspects have been detained and policemen have
been injured. Some policemen have been hospitalized.
The violence is in Alajuela where a wall was used to
separate the middle-class subdivision of La Rotonda
from the informal settlement of Erizo.
The wall was constructed to keep residents of the
slums from visiting the subdivision. Monday the wall
was destroyed, and fighting has raged since.
Residents of Erizo claim that the wall blocks a road
to their living area. Subdivision dwellers say the
wall blocks thieves and worse from the subdivision.
Violence flared several times Tuesday when police in
riot control formation came at the rock-throwers.
Police carried Plexiglas shields.
Officials said they found several casings from bullets
in the area suggesting that someone was sniping at the
police formations.
Four of the arrests were made Tuesday afternoon when
subdivision residents tried to erect a new wall.
The structure is steel-reinforced concrete, and it has
been reduced to rubble, apparently by a piece of large
construction equipment
*New transport minister named by Pacheco
Randall Quirós is the new minister of Obras Públicas y
Transportes. He was named Tuesday by President Abel
Pacheco to replace Ovidio Pacheco, who left Monday.
Quirós served as vice minister to the Presidencia.
Pacheco, the 14th high official to leave the
administration, said he did so for health reasons. But
he also was named Sunday in La Nación as associated
with a predatory financing company in Turrialba. The
firm charged 5 percent a month to the poor farmers and
others.
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