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COSTA RICA -The Year 2004 in
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A collection of
fotos from the daily pages of
insidecostarica.com that shaped
the year 2004!
January
Transit
police continue with their operatives,
confiscating and fining drivers for not having the
"marchamo" paid, while 58% of Transit vehicles
don't comply with the law!
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Quick
action by police resulted in the arrest of a
man for the unprovoked assault on a street
vendor in La Plaza de la Cultura. Police
presence in the downtown streets has been
stepped up for the tourist season.
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An alter
girl makes the sign of the cross next to the
coffins holding the three children murdered by
their father during a funeral ceremony at the
local Church in the poor neighborhood of La
Carpio.
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February
Italian
tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings during his
'Pavarotti In Freedom'' concert at the
National Stadium in San Jose, Saturday.
Pavarotti opened his world tour 'Pavarotti In
Freedom' in Costa Rica, which is scheduled to
be his last tour before he retires in 2005.(AP
Photo/Kent Gilbert)
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A
dangerous rest. Every day many accidents occur
between the 2 wheeled and 4 wheeled type of
vehicles due to lack of mutual respect between
the drivers.
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Florida
Governor Jeb Bush heads for the airport for a
flight to Nicaragua where he will continue his
Central American visit. Bush was in Costa Rica
on a two-day official visit to promote
investments and trade between Central America
and Florida, and to promote Miami for the
headquarters of the Free Trade Zone of the
Americas. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
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April
Olympic
gold medalist Claudia Poll speaks with the
press about her performance in France last
week qualifying times for the Athens 2004
Olympic games in San Jose, Monday. Poll
completed the 200 meter Freestyle in 1:59:85,
the 11th fastest time in 2004, in her first
competition after completing a two-year
suspension for doping. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
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An
unidentified Costa Rican man sleeps on a pew
as he waits with other squatters who have
taken up residence in the Metropolitan
Cathedral in San Jose. Approximately 180
families have moved into the Cathedral to seek
government aid after being evicted from land
claimed by a banana company near Bambuzal,
Costa Rica over the weekend. (AP Photo/Kent
Gilbert)
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May
Crowds in
front of the Legislative Assembly brushed up
against legislator Rodrigo Alberto Carazo
(PAC) to spray him with black paint.
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Alcides
Bogantes Hidalgo, celebrated his 104th
birthday with his large family that includes 8
children, 48 grand children, 115 great grand
children and 26 great great grandchildren. The
centenarian who lives in Grecia says he is
happy with life. (Foto Luis Chinchilla/Diario
Extra)
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Father
Minor de Jesús Calvo is again arrested in the
Medina murder case for threatening the
prosecution's key witness. His lawyers were
also arrested later in the day for taking part
in the threats. (Fotos Graciela Solís/Diario
Extra).
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June
Mother
seeks aid from the Red Cross for her
children from the effect of the tear gas
police launched on the residents of La Carpio
to stop the rioting.
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Ronny Zamora, is back in Costa Rica with his
family in Turrialba, after serving 27 years in
prison in the U.S.
In the foto, he is seen carrying his nephew of
7 months, while hounded by the press. (Foto
Róger Córdoba/Diario Extra)
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Newly
elected OAS Secretary, former President of
Costa Rica, General Miguel Angel
Rodriguez poses for photographers after he was
elected new in Quito, Ecuador, Monday. Click for larger image!
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Newly elected President of the
Organization of American States
Miguel Angel Rodriguez and
former President of Costa Rica,
(left) and Costa Rican President
Abel Pacheco, (right) share a
joke about who gets to sit in
the presidential chair at the
Presidential House in San Jose,
Costa Rica, Monday. Rodriguez
was paying a courtesy visit of
Costa Rican President Abel
Pacheco. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
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July
assersby take a second look
at the recently erected
statue honouring the the women of
Guanacaste, on Avenida Central.
The 500 pound statue is part of
the Municipality of San José
efforts to beautify the downtown
core.
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Costa Rican police officers take
cover behind parked cars while
maintaining a security perimeter
around the Chilean Embassy
compound in San José, during a hostage
situation Tuesday. A
Costa Rican police officer who
was stationed as a guard at the
embassy took 10 hostages inside
the Chilean Embassy, killing
three of them before killing
himself.
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An impromptu demonstration took
place in front of the Ministerio
de Hacienda building on Avenida
Segunda by members of the
teacher's union ANDE and other
public employees to protest
their displeasure of the latest
salary increases.
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August
No
Gasoline!
The scene at many
gasoline stations last night as
the blockade by truckers since
Monday morning stopped the
regular flow of gasoline from
the refinery.
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The T-shit of this protestor
expresses the sentiments of many
protesting against the TLC and
the current government policies..
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September
Former President, Rafael Ángel
Calderón Fournier, broke his
seclusion from the press,
presenting himself before the
Fiscalía de Delitos Económicos
del Primer Circuito Judicial de
San José, to deliver a document
in which he says he making
himself completely available to
the courts in their
investgiation of him and they
can search his home and office.
Calderón claims of no
wrongdoing, however, refused to
comment on the details of the
accusations against him. [Foto:
Róger Córdoba/Diario Extra]
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Bruce Harris, the "champion" of
street children and victims of
sex abuse in Latin America, is
"fired" by Covenant House over a
relationship he had with a boy
the organization, Casa Alianza,
once helped. Harris has
admitted that he acted
incorrectly.
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Costa Rican President, Abel
Pacheco, stands at the side of
newly elected Secretary General
of the Organization of American
States (OAS), Dr. Miguel Angel
Rodríguez, at the Special
Meeting of the Permanent Council
on the Occasion of the
Assumption of office by the
former president of Costa Rica.
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The
Dalai Lama stands with fellow
Nobel Peace Prize recipient,
former President Oscar Arias
during a conference in the
Teatro Nacional in San Jose,
Sunday. Arias introduced him to
the conference entitled
'Individual Peace, Universal
Peace.'
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The
Dalai Lama helps to hold a
ceremonial scarf while President
Abel Pacheco plants a symbolic
flowerpot for goodwill and
peace, Monday. The political and
spiritual leader of Tibet is
visiting Costa Rica to meet with
local government and religious
officials.
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Where it all began!
The Fischel/CCSS scandal all
began when it was discovered
where Eliseo Vargas, former
president of the CCSS lives. The
house picture above, located in
the prestigious Parque Valle del
Sol in Santa Ana, was paid by
funds from the Finland
government credit to the CCSS,
by companies owned by members of
the Corporacion Fischel.
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October
"Lobo Cantó" - Wolf Sings!
Former ICE director, José
Antonio Lobo, is escorted by OIJ
agents from his home in Alajuela
to an interview with "la
Fiscalía de Delitos Económicos y
Anticorrupción, en los
Tribunales de Justicia de San
José - the prosecutor's
office to explain his his role
in the ICE-Alcatel scandal. Lobo
was detained after implicating
former Costa Rican president
Miguel Ángel
Rodríguez.
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Thousands took to the streets of
San José yesterday to protest
against corruption in government
and of public officials.
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¡ESPOSADO!
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Echeverría, former president of
Costa Rica and now former
Secretary General of the OAS, is
in Costa Rica and behind bars,
as he was handcuffed, taken off
the airplane and sped to the San
José courthouse to face Costa
Rican justice for his alleged
acts of corruption.
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Daily Spanish Newspaper La
Prensa Libre published fotos
of the two men
(Eliseo Vargas and
José Antonio Lobo) and their
presidents on their front page,
following the declaration made
by Vargas to the Fiscalía on
Tuesday.
Vargas is fingering former president Calderón in the Fischel-Caja scandal,
while Lobo says his friend and
former boss, Miguel Angel
Rodríguez is behind the Alcatel
payoffs.
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Former Costa
Rican President Miguel Angel
Rodríguez is escorted to a "perrera"
to be taken from house arrest to
the La Reforma prison in
Alajuela, where he will be house
some 24 metres from former
president Rafael Angel Calderón.
For the first time in Costa
Rica's history are there two
former presidents in the same
jail at the same time, both
accused of corruption.
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November
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December
A group of Cubans granted
refugee status in Costa Rica
arrive in San José. The Cubans
were transferred from the U.S.
Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay
Cuba to Costa Rica on Wednesday,
that include a medical
anesthesiologist, mechanics, and
tourism experts.
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A
Blue Santa?
No, don't adjust your monitor,
there is a Blue Santa on our
streets. One of the local retail
chains is using the Blue theme
for this year's Christmas
promotion with it's blue "Billetes
Navideños" that will save money
on purchases. This Blue Santa
was spotted near Plaza Mayor in
Rohrmoser handing our flyers for
the promotion.
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While the "El Gordo" lottery is
not for days to come, it was the
"Big" lottery for 96 of the 225
aspirants who participated in
the draw for the taxi plates
that had been appealed by
Tribunal Administrativo de
Transportes.
The total number of taxi plates
in the country now is 13.675.
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