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Monday 07 March 2011 |
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WikiLeaks,
What a
scandal!
By John
R. Holtz
So far
La
Nación
and
Inside
Costa
Rica
have not
published
anything
that
either
we did
not
already
know or
at least
suspect.
However,
the
plethora
of
reader
comments
published
in La
Nación
by Ticos
has been
reflective
of an
angry
and
disappointed
Costa
Rica.
Of
course,
the U.S.
was
opposed
to the
recognition
of China
by Costa
Rica.
Moreover,
most of
the
globe
was
opposed
to how
that
recognition
came
about.
The sad
truth is
that
Costa
Rica
sold her
heart
and soul
for
money
and the
hope
China
would
promote
Costa
Rica to
receive
a seat
on the
UN
Security
Council
(2007)
which
would
also put
Arias
“…once
again on
the
world
stage,“
but that
never
came to
fruition.
Please,
do not
lecture
me about
the
environment
when we
authorized
gold
mining,
close
our eyes
to shark
finning,
cut
trees at
random
to build
luxury
homes,
condos
and
resorts,
pollute
the air
with 6.8
tons of
perpetual
carbon
monoxide,
use 300
tons of
pesticides
per year
on home
grown
crops,
and not
to
mention
we have
become a
drug
cartel
branch
office
for
laundering
money
and
hiding
out big
time
Narco
heads; a
lot with
the
collaboration
of
government
officials
and
police.
Yesterday,
WikiLeaks
– La
Nación
published
that in
2007
Costa
Rica
did, in
fact,
begin a
program
to allow
its
“special”
police
to train
in the
United
States
at the
infamous
southern
command.
And even
suggested
allowing
select
students
to
“discreetly”
also be
trained
in the
US.
Nobel
Laureate,
former
president,
Oscar
Arias
has made
a career
speaking
against
evil,
violence,
promoting
democracy
and
human
rights.
He has
also
raked
the
United
States
over the
red hot
coals
for its
militaristic
behavior
and
global
arms
sales.
Yet in
one
swift
moment
he sold
Taiwan
out to
the
Chinese
who have
none, I
mean
zero, of
our
social,
political
and
legal
qualities.
And talk
about
arms?
Ex-president
Arias
forfeited
his
moral
right
ever
again to
lecture
the US
or any
other
country
regarding
arms,
killing,
profiling
and
justice.
He gave
all that
up years
ago
for….money,
200
police
cars and
a really
nice
stadium.
The
people
of Costa
Rica who
criticize
the US
for its
lack of
human
rights
and war
like
mentality
need to
sober
up, and
look
around
to see
who are
their
bed
partners
and stop
being so
naive.
Has any
country
sent
troops
to the
northern
border
yet? Why
would
the U.S.
when the
Chinchilla
administration
elected
to use
the
international
diplomatic
system
to prove
Costa
Rica´s
point
and the
government
is so
reluctant
to let
US ships
dock to
refuel
and buy
supplies
much
more
than
provide
defense.
So the
WikiLeaks
makes
sense
and so
do the
tone of
the
drafts
which
seem
confounded
by this
abrupt
and
unexplained
change
in moral
attitude
of Costa
Rica.
La
Nación
reader
comments
regarding
WikiLeaks´
cables
are
primarily
as much
anti-USA
as
anti-CR
politicos
when in
fact,
they
should
be
reflective
of a
dysfunctional
and
hypocritical
society
named
Costa
Rica
then and
still
lead by
a Nobel
Laureate
who has
spent
these
last
several
months
attacking
the
press
and
explaining
his
administration
to a
disillusioned
public.
*John
Holtz
can be
reached
at
jrh@modernmanagement.org
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