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* Rodriguez Won't Resign!
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*RodrÃguez Won't Resign, He Tells Pacheco
The newly sworn in Secretary General of the
Organization of American
States (OAS), Miguel Angel RodrÃguez, gave his reply
late yesterday
afternoon to President Abel Pacheco's request that
RodrÃguez resign
following allegations accepting a bribe on the
ICE-Alactel deal.
The answers is no, I will not resign.
RodrÃguez said that his presumption of innocence is
essential. If he
resigns it demonstrates an acceptance of guilt and
would prejudice his
position.
RodrÃguez, who was president of Costa Rica during
1998-2002, said it
is terribly destructive that other powers - formally
or informally -
have the arrogance to pre-judge him.
As long as Rodriguez is in his position, and stays in
Washington, DC,
he would appear to enjoy diplomatic immunity, which
he would not enjoy
if he returned here.
RodrÃguez send the following letter Pacheco.
Señor Presidente:
He recibido su carta del 4 de octubre de 2004, cuyas
motivaciones
comprendo.
Tengo el más alto concepto de la Justicia
Costarricense y nada temo,
mientras sea ante ese Poder del Estado, en responder
a cualquier
acusación que se me pueda hacer; por temeraria que
esta sea.
Estoy seguro que usted comprenderá lo esencial que
resulta la presunción
de inocencia mientras no se demuestre lo contrario.
Más aún, lo
terriblemente destructivo que puede ser para una
sociedad que otros
poderes, formales e informales, se arroguen el
derecho de pre-juzgar.
No es posible, en la Costa Rica que conozco, que se
quiera causar un
gran daño a mi persona, familia e Institución que hoy
represento,
irrespetando mi estado de inocencia. Estoy seguro que
usted concordará
en que todo ciudadano en democracia tiene el derecho
a que se haga
justicia, sin tener que pagar con dolor irreparable,
el defender
la verdad, la inocencia y el honor.
Puedo asegurarle que haré mi defensa con toda la
altura y rectitud que
merece mi PaÃs y su Poder Judicial, al que reitero mi
respeto.
ExcelentÃsimo Señor Abel Pacheco de la Espriella,
Presidente de Costa Rica
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*Unions Threaten To Strike Again
The National Civic Movement, a group of unions and
associations that
paralyzed the country in August with strikes and
roadblocks, announced
yesterday its members plan to take to the streets
again next week.
Arguing that the government has not complied with an
Aug. 31 agreement
that ended the eight days of civil unrest (TT, Sept.
3), leaders from
truck and taxi drivers' associations, the National
Association of Public
and Private Employees (ANEP), and other labor unions
said they would
begin a strike Oct. 11.
ANEP Secretary General Albino Vargas said the
government has not taken
steps to open the monopoly the Spanish-Costa Rican
firm Riteve SyC has
on mandatory vehicle inspections. Officials have also
neglected to form a
commission to address the rising cost of living in
Costa Rica, he said.
Next week's manifestations will also be a protest
against the rampant
government corruption that recently has been revealed
by local press.
The National Council of rectors has called for a
massive march against
corruption on Oct. 12, beginning at 9 a.m. at Parque
la Merced in San
José.
National Civic Movement leaders would not reveal the
details of the
protests they said would begin Oct. 11. They said the
demonstrations
will be “a little of everything” and include
tortuguismo , in which
trucks and cars slow traffic by driving at a crawling
pace, but will
not include road blocks.
At the end of August, semi-trucks blocked ports,
border crossings and
southeastern and northwestern access to the San José
metropolitan area.
*Embassy sets garage sale for two days in October
The U.S. Embassy is having another garage sale. This
one is Oct. 25
and 26 at the embassy storage facilities in Pavas.
The announced contents of the sale include furniture,
computer equipment
and home furnishings, said an announcement.
As with past sales, interested buyers submit bids on
predetermined lots
of goods. The high bidder gets the goods. A 20,000
colons deposit is
required on every bid, the embassy said. ThatÂ’s about
$44.60. Bids will
be announced Oct. 27. The successful bidders can pick
up their purchases
that Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. Losers
can pick up their
deposits at the same time.
The storage facility is on Avenida 4 some 200 meters
west of the Fábrica
de Alimentos Jack's factory.
*Monteverde's new road will mean tourist onslaught
Several local roads in Monteverde are being paved for
the first time
ever, and they may be followed in next year by a much
larger project —
the paving of 40 kilometers of road between
Monteverde and the Pan
American Highway.
Monteverde Mayor Marcony Suarez said that
representatives from the
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes told him
they are planning
on paving the road to his district in the near
future. "They told me
they are going to finish the whole thing next year,"
Suarez said.
Paving the whole road to Monteverde, located in the
mountainous cloud
forests of northwest Costa Rica, is likely to have a
major impact on
the area that is home to about 6,000 residents. The
better road will
allow much easier access to an area that is
relatively difficult to get
to because of the narrow and winding pothole-filled
access roads.
*Fernández Arrested, Arias Speaks Out
While José Antonio Lobo Solera is under "house
arrest" for the next
six months for his role in the scandal, former
director of the
Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), JoaquÃn Alberto
Fernández, will
spend the next three months in the San José San
Sebastain jail, on
preventive detention, ruled against him by a judge
for his accepting
us$1.200.000 payoff from Alcatel.
Fernández arrived at the jail in the early afternoon,
transferred from
the holding cells at the Goicoechea courthouse, where
he spend the
entire weekend waiting a judge's decision on his
detention.
According to jail house officials, the receiving of
Fernández was
routine. Fernández is facing charges of aggravated
corruption and
enrichment, related to the the Alcatle payoff.
Fernández will join the company of two others at the
San Sebastain jail,
who are in preventive detention for corruption,
Walter Reiche Fischel,
president of the Corporación Fischel and Fischel
corporate lawyer,
Randall Vargas.
Eliso Vargas, former president of the Caja
Costarricense de Seguro
Social (CCSS) is another jail, prisión de CocorÃ, en
Cartago, waiting
out his preventive detention in the Fischel-Caja
scandal.
Meanwhile, former president and presidential hopeful
in the coming
elections, Oscar Arias Sánchez, who is a trip to
Asia, sent a message
to the Costa Rican press, telling how pained he is in
hearing the news
back home, but more what the world press is saying
about his beloved
country, known mainly for it's peaceful state.
The former president and Nobel Prize winner for Peace
in 1987 is asking
for those responsible for this "blow", to measure the
consequences of
their actions and take immediate action to repair the
damage that has
been caused on the image of Costa Rica in the world.
*New Mall Open Downtown
Following months of delay and then some more delays,
Pasaje Plazavenida
finally opened it's doors on Friday, Oct. 1.
The indoor mall located on eastern end of the
Boulevard (Avenida Central)
has 31 stores, including a food court.
Keith y RamÃrez, owners of the mall invest $1 Million
to renovate the
building that they occupied for many years, selling
food service
supplies and equipment.
The mall is open Mon. to Sat. from 9am - 9:30pm and
Sun. 10am - 8pm.
*Kanev Trial: First Day!
Arthur Kanev, the first U.S. citizen to be extradited
to Costa Rica
on charges providing drugs to minors, corruption of
minors and having
sexual relations with willing children under the age
of 15, began his
first day of trial without entering a plea.
*This Summer to be Hotter and Dryer
The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN) - the
weatherman - is
predicting that this summer or "green season" that
begins in December
will be hotter than normal and will last longer past
May of next year,
the official month for the change of season.
El Niño is being blamed for the dryer weather
conditions that will
affect Costa Rica as the phenomenon is expected to
hang over the
Pacific ocean until the middle of next year.
El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere
system in the Tropical
Pacific having important consequences for weather and
climate around
the globe. In a narrow sense, it's a giant puddle of
heated water that
sloshes across the Pacific Ocean.
The weatherman say the season will be dry and at
least one centigrade
hotter that usual.
The rainy season, again according to the weatherman,
is expected to end
in the first week of November for the Guanacaste
(northwest) region,
the middle to the end of November for the Central
Valley (San José) and
by the end of December for the Central and South
Pacific regions (Quepos
& Golfito).
The Caribbean and northeast zones don't have a
defined rainy/dry season.
The weather in that region stays pretty well constant
with even
temperatures all year round and rainy periods all
year round.
*Delta Air Lines Limits Passenger Baggage to Select
Latin American Cities
Delta Air Lines has announced its annual baggage
policy for flights to
select Latin American> cities during the holiday
travel season.
From Nov. 15, 2004, through Jan. 15, 2005, Delta is
limiting the total
number of both checked and carry-on items, as well as
the size and weight
parameters for these items.
During this embargo period, Delta will allow a
maximum of two checked
bags and one carry-on bag item (plus one personal
item such as a purse or
briefcase) on all flights to San José and many other
Latin countries,
including Panama, Mexico and Colombia.
Delta recommends that passengers traveling to these
Latin American
cities make arrangements with FedEx, United Parcel
Service or the United
States Postal Service to ship any items that exceed
the number, size and
weight restrictions.
Delta Air Lines is the world's second largest airline
in terms of
passengers carried and the leading U.S. carrier
across the Atlantic,
offering daily flights to 493 destinations in 87
countries on Delta,
Song, Delta Shuttle, the Delta Connection carriers
and its worldwide
partners.
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