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Nine Months of Preventive
Detention for Former President Calderón
At 11:30am yesterday, former
president Rafael Angel Calderón
Fournier got the bad news.Criminal court judge, Carmen Peraza, had made her decision
and the former president for the
next nine months will call a
jail cell at La Reforma prison
his home.
Pacheco Says
Calderón's Arrest Is An Example
for the World
"The law works" and
is an "example for the world",
were the words of president Abel
Pacheco in reference to the
detention of two former
presidents in less than a week.
Judge
Talks of a "Criminal Organization"
Judge Criminal court judge,
Carmen María Peraza, referred to those involved in the Fischel-Caja
scandal as part of an "intricate criminal organization that has used
commercial and banking networks to bring their plan to fruition."
Constitutional Court Rejects
Rodríguez Appeal
The Constitutional Court or Sala
IV as it is more commonly known,
has rejected several appeals and
petitions for Hapeas Corpus in
the detention of former
president Miguel Angel
Rodríiguez.
Banco ELCA To Be Liquidated
The Consejo Nacional de
Supervisión del Sistema
Financiero (CONASSIF) who
intervened Banco ELCA's
operations on June 29, 2004
made the decision public on Friday.
Conservation International Calling for Costa
Rica to Control Foreign Shark Finning Vessels
A letter from Conservation International’s CEO, Peter Seligmann and
Executive Director of Marine Programs Division, Sylvia Earle, calls
on the President of Costa Rica to stop allowing foreign shark
finning vessels to land at private docks until those docks are
authorized by law, and to mandate all sharks to be landed with fins
attached.
Progress in Spite of the
Environment
Costa Rican companies stand out
at the global because of the
sophistication of their
operations and strategies, in
spite of the many obstacles they
face to operate.
BUSINESS:
Pipasa Absobs As De Oros
Rica Foods, the only Costa Rican
corporation that is traded on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) has decided
to merge its As De Oros operations into Pipasa.
Cuban foreign minister satirizes US failure in
isolation
Cuban Foreign Minister
Felipe Perez said Friday that the United States has failed in its
attempt to isolate the island and has instead found itself isolated
in the world by pursing that policy.
International News from the New
York Times
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SPECIAL REPORTS:
Brazil’s Gun Buy-Back Program: Will it Work?
Marcelo Itagiba’s office is
immaculate. His desk is a fine piece of furniture, built of beautiful
wood and adorned with intricately designed carvings. Two cell phones,
three land lines, and a radio surround his organized work space. One
phone or another rings every few minutes, some attended, others not. He
speaks fast and to the point, and does not repeat himself. This is a man
who measures his time not in money, but in lives.
Itagiba is the Sub-Secretary of Public Security for the state of Rio de
Janeiro, and, principally, the city of Rio de Janeiro . It is one of the
most violent cities in the world, where 80,000 people died of
firearm-related deaths between 1999 and 2003; where nearly every other
day an innocent bystander is killed by a stray bullet misfired by kids
not yet old enough to vote or join the military. The urban guerrilla war
that rages around the drug trade here has reached unprecedented levels
of violence and brutality.
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