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*Costa Rica's Ambassador to Russia Has His Own Scandal
*News Digest
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*Costa Rica's Ambassador to Russia Has His Own Scandal
On the front page of the Diario Extra yesterday there is a photo
of the Costa Rican embassador to Russia with three young women in his
bedroom.
They have uncovered a denunciation that was posted in a Russian
newspaper 22 Aug 2003, by a young woman towards the embassador. It is
translated from Russian to Spanish in the Extra. Here is an English
translation:
"Girls, avoid the Costa Rican embassador, Plutarco. He's a horrible
person. He goes out with various women at the same time. First he
invites them to live with him, then he does whatever possible so that
they lose their jobs and then he converts them to .ual slaves."
The woman making the denunciation appears in the photo. The
denunciation was published one month prior to the embassador, 60 years
old, marrying a young Russian woman of 21 years.
Plutarco Hernandez Sancho played a part in what forms one of Costa
Ricas ugliest pages of history. In 1969, he was sentenced to 16 years
in prison for, with the help of Nicaraguan Humberto José Ortega
Saavedra, assasinating José Jiménez Rodríguez who was a Civil Guardmen
at the Alajuela prison. After the killing, they freed Carlos Fonseca
Amador, who was incarcerated at the time, but the prison escape failed
and those involved were captured.
In 1972, an integrated group of the same terrorist cell (these are the
words used) hijacked a Lacsa plane from Limon to San Jose, took it to
San Andres, Colombia and asked for the release of Fonseca Amador,
Ortega Saavedra, Plutarco Hernández and others under the condition
that they would set the 34 hostages on the plane free. The deal was
made and the prisoners were transferred to Mexico. Plutarco Hernandez
went to Russia where he had his wife and son. Under the
administration of Rodrigo Carazo Odio, he was pardoned. His sentence
was pardoned when his cousin Rafael Calderón Angel Fournier was
minister of Foreign Relations. When his cousin Calderon was elected
president of Costa Rica, they sent Hernandez Sancho to Russia where he
acted as general consul from 1990-1993. He was later named embassador
in 1998 and still holds the position.
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*Fiscalía Continue Interviews While Waiting On Miguel Angel
While the Fiscalía (prosecutor's office) awaits former president Miguel
Ángel Rodríguez to officially step down as Secretary General of the
Organization of American States (OAS) of Friday and his return to Costa
Rica, they are not sitting idly by.
Yesterday, Rafael Sequeira Garza, one of the persons signing on behalf
of the company Denisse owned by Rodríguez was before the Tribunales de
Justicia, to give his declaration.
Sequeira arrived at the Ministerio Público in the early afternoon to
give an explanation of why the company Denisse received money from the
French telecommunications firm, Alcatel.
Before entering the courthouse, Sequiera made the following statement
to the press: "I don't have to necessarily know the origin of the funds,
I will answer to what I know and how I can collaborate. Never have I had
reason to question Miguel Angel Rodríguez, the last time I spoke to him
was last Thursday when he called me to discuss personal matters."
Sequeira added that Rodríguez was aware that he would be before the
prosecutors.
Rodríguez is being accused by his former Housing Minister and friend,
José Antonio Lobo, who was a member of the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) board of directors who awarded the us$149 Million
Dollar contract to Alcatel.
*DIS/INTERPOL on Alert for Rodríguez
Many had wondered openly if former president Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
does not return to Costa Rica, will he be joining several others who
have fled Costa Rican justice and are now on the Interpol wanted list?
And, since we are talking of an ex-president, will Costa Rican
authorities put pressure on foreign authorities to intervene in
locating a possible hiding by Rodríguez and arrest him and return to
Costa Rica.
Well, the answer came yesterday, as criminal court judge Isabel Porras
Abarca made an official request of the U.S. authorities for the
immediate capture and detention of Rodríguez the minute his duties
at the Organization of American States (OAS) is official.
Fiscal General (chief prosecutor) said that the international warrant
against Rodríguez was formalized yesterday when he asked the
DIS/INTERPOL in Costa Rica directoer, Guido Alvarado, to alert
foreign agencies to be on the alert and prevent Rodríguez from leaving
the United States.
Rodríguez's name was added to the INTERPOL database as of last night,
which is sent to 187 countries around the globe.
*Banco ELCA Report Expected This Week
News on the Banco ELCA intervention could come as early as this week,
as two former managers, Javier Filloy and Hernán González, have been
assisting the Ministerio Público to review the evidence in the case by
the Fiscalía de delitos económicos.
The financial advisor and manager of ELCA have been in preventive
detention for the last three months, along with ELCA president,
Carlos Alvarado Moya.
ELCA was intervened by the Superintendencia General de Entidades
Financieras (SUGEF) on the 29th of June of this year, and while the
bank's doors are open, business is limited to answering depositor's
questions and concerns about the future of the bank.
Last month, the Asociación Bancaria Costarricense (ABC) announced that
it would pay depositors with less than ¢500.000 in accounts at the bank,
and to date it reports that only 344 of the 800 persons expected came
forward to make a claim.
The association said only 176 cheques have been issued or only 36% of
those expected.
This month, the Asociación Bancaria Costarricense (ABC), is expected to
expand it's payment to those depositors with less than ¢4.5 million
colones, expecting to pay out some us$2 million dollars to depositors.
However, the ABC has not made a final announcement on that plan.
Óscar Rodríguez, head of the SUGEF, informs that a report on the Banco
ELCA situation will come by the end of this week, which will then be
reviewed by the Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero
(Conassif), for a final decision on the future of the bank.
A meeting scheduled for September 30 of the partners of the bank resulted
in no appearances. The meeting was to discuss proposals and plans for
healing the bank.
*Protest March Set for Today
"No to corruption" will be the theme of today's protest march downtown
San José beginning at 9am this morning.
Protestors are expected to trade their "No al TLC", "Pacheco Vende
Patria" and other similar themes and placards for a call to end
corruption of Costa Rica now that two former presidents are implicated
in unrelated cases of taking bribes or paybacks from government
contracts while in office.
A score of private and public functionaries have been arrested, some
in preventive detention in jail, while others under house arrest or
simply have orders against them leaving Costa Rica.
It could be said that there are more millionaires in jail at the present
time than in the past.
The protest was organized by Costa Rica's universities and will see
other action groups and public employees join in. President Pacheco is
in full support of the march and has given public employees the morning
off work to attend the protestations
*Undisclosed problems plague the Internet here
Costa Rica's internet structure is showing signs of stress.
The ADSL high-speed service offered by the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad, known as ICE, was out much of Monday.
Amnet admits to serious problems with its connection with
Radiográfica Costarricense S.A., RACSA, the principal internet provider
and subsidiary of ICE.
Message delivery has been spotty since Friday, although hard facts are
difficult to get.
Public employees at ICE have been known to pull the plug on the high-
speed Internet service for political reasons. And Tuesday is the day for
a major demonstration against corruption and a litany of other
situations.
Downloading Web pages was less affected, although the speed of
refreshing a page has dropped in the last three days.
E-mail messages may take 12 hours to reach their destination across
town. Some never arrive at all.
A chief technician for Amnet, the cable television and Internet
provider, said Monday that a modem that connects the company's lines
to the RACSA server was functioning badly. He predicted incorrectly
that the situation would be remedied by late afternoon.
Technicians at RACSA, on the other hand, discounted reports of any
problems in telephone conversations Monday.
Although RACSA technicians said there were no problems, a test message
Monday night sent via a direct connection to the RACSA server to a RACSA
e-mail address took seven minutes to arrive. Usually the speed is that of
light.
The problems with the high-speed Internet were most obvious at a
downtown Internet cafe where employees had been in contact with ICE
all day without much success. Users of that system say it did not work
much of the day, although some improvement took place about 5:30 p.m.
The high-speed Internet hookup, or ADSL, has been restricted to a test
area downtown until recently when the company decided to offer it to a
much wider area. ICE uses existing telephone lines to make the
connections to Internet servers.
Amnet uses a type of cable used also for television transmissions.
*Legion post planning Thanksgiving dinner
The American legion will hold its Thanksgiving dinner Nov. 20 at the
Castillo Country Club in Heredia.
The legion post, the SFC Raymond Edison Jones Post 16 Costa Rica, will
gather at 11 a.m. for a 12:30 dinner. A traditional turkey feast is
planned. The cost is 7,000 colons for adults and 3,500 for youngsters
under 12. The adult charge is about $15.50.
The purpose of the event is to socialize, and to meet new friends,
said the organization in a release. Reservations are available with
Ken Johnson, 591-1695, James Longshaw, 386-6572, Jim Young, 836-2328,
and Don Roberts, 290-0167. Reservations are required.
*Day of three cultures preempts Columbus
Today is Columbus Day, although U.S. citizens celebrated the day Monday
so many public employees could get a three-day weekend.
Columbus is not as hated in Costa Rica as he is elsewhere, such as
México and the Southwestern United States. But the day has not been
called that. The title Día de la Raza gave way to Día de las Culturas
to recognize the mestizo roots of most Costa Ricans: Indian, African
and Spanish.
To some extent the day is designed to impress on Costa Ricans the
varied backgrounds of their ancestors. However, many Costa Ricans do
not accept this view and insist that they are pure Spanish.
This year the day is being dominated by an anti-corruption march.
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