Woman Continues Her
Hunger Strike
The Costa Rican woman on
a hunger strike in
protest of the
immigration service not
allowing her husband
entry into Costa Rica
for not having a return
ticket out of the
country, is her third
day in front of the
Corte Suprema de
Justicia.
Battling the foul
weather and having an
eye kept on her by the
Cruz Roja, Jenny Torres,
a Costa Rican Muslim,
says that though they
met and fell in love
over the internet, she
has been married to
Argentine, Marcos Derman,
and decided it was time
for them to be together.
The couple do not have
any children, though
they both have children
by previous marriages,
have only met in peron
in Panama, at Colón bus
stop after a cyberspace
courtship, and decided
to marry.
Torres is a data input
worker at a Heredia
company and has taken
vacation leave to hold
her hunger strike, not
worried at critics,
especially her family,
which she plans to stage
until next Tuesday as
she has to report for
work on Wednesday.
Her husband tried to
enter Costa Rica last
week but was turned back
at the border for not
having a return ticket
out of Costa Rica, a
requirement by Costa
Rican immigration,
according to immigration
director Mario Zamora.
According to Torres, her
husband travelled from
Argentina to Costa Rica
to visit her son from a
previous marriage. The
passage was paid by the
child's mother, but due
to her economic
situation, she could
only afford a one way
ticket.
Derman, who works an an
Islamic interpreter over
the internet, was turned
back at the Juan
Santamaría (San José)
airport even after the
pleas of his Costa Rican
wife, and was placed on
the flight back to
Argentina within an
hour.
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