Day of Prayer for Calderón
Some 300 persons gathered outside the doors
of the La Reforma penitentiary to participate in a day of prayer,
organized by friends of former president Rafael Angel Calderón, who will
celebrate his 56th birthday in preventive detention.
The prayer headed by father Gerardo Badilla in which friends and family
participated, praying for the former president's health.
Calderón has not been idelewhile sitting in a solitary cell in the
prison, he delivered yesterday to his wife a proposed bill of law to
create a "Defensoría de los Privados de Libertad" - a kind of Ombudsman
for those in prison.
Present in the prayer meeting were four deputies who made the commitment
to present the bill to the Legislative Assembly.
Calderón is tied to the Fischel-Caja scandal where millions of dollars
were paid in commissions from a us$39 million dollars loan from the
government of Finland to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)
to purchase medical equipment.
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