Thursday 14 August
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Mother's Day
Tomorrow
Fuel Tankers Are
An Accident Waiting To Become A Tragedy
President Arias
Billboard Urges Start Of
Trial Of Former
President Calderón
Traditional Train Ride
To Atenas Begins Sunday
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Billboard Urges Start Of
Trial Of Former
President Calderón
Friends of former Costa
Rican president, Rafael
Ángel Calderón, has
gotten tired of waiting
around to get his day in
court that he decided to
purchase space on a
billboard to remind the
country of the travesty
that their friend is
living.
Calderón has been
waiting for four years
waiting for a trial, a
trial that he is sure
that will prove his
innocence.
In the meantime, the
former president is on
conditional release and
has been vocal asking
authorities to get the
trial going.
Calderón said that the
billboards were paid by
a group of friends who
are as anxious as he is
to get this all behind
them and are clear of
his innocence and of the
persecution of him by
Judicial authorities.
Calderón governed
between 1990 and 1994
and is currently under
indictment for
corruption for his
involvement in the
Caja-Fischel scandal,
where he is alleged to
have received monies for
his influence in a multi
million dollar loan by
the government of
Finland to the Caja
Costarricense de Seguro
Social, brokered by the
Fischel pharmacy chain.
Also waiting for years
for his day in court is
former president, Miguel
Ángel Rodriguez, who is
accused in the
ICE-Alcatel bribery
scandal.
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