Daily Edition: San José, Costa Rica, September 05, 2005
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Liberation Party Assembly
Picks Candidates
The assembly of the National Liberation Party (PLN) – the party of former president (1986-1990) and current presidential candidate Oscar Arias – chose Friday their candidates for the legislative elections in February.
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Police Release Statistics
For First Half of Year
Across the nation, police arrest an average 151 people daily, the Public Security Ministry announced over the weekend.
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Tico Fishing Captain Released
From Ecuadorian Custody
Roberto Guevara, the captain of a Costa Rican fishing boat, was freed by authorities Aug. 29 in Ecuador, where he had been jailed for 136 days, the captain told the press.
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September 05
Fotoseptiembre Photography Festival
Fotoseptiembre International is a photography festival that takes place every two years in different countries around the world. Various photo exhibits will be shown throughout the city. Tico Times photographer Mónica Quesada's work is featured at the Casa de la Cultura in Heredia, until Sept. 30. See the Tico Times Calendar for more exhibits.
El Café, Terruños y Hombres
Painting exhibit at INBio Parque, in Santo Domingo, Heredia. Info: 222-2283, ext. 25
History of Photography in Costa Rica
A talk, held at the Véritas University Auditorium, 6 p.m., as part of the Fotoveritas Talks and Film Forums series. Info: 283-4747
Edited By Leland Baxter-Neal
Tico Times Staff
lbaxter@ticotimes.net
Liberation Party Assembly
Picks Candidates
The assembly of the National Liberation Party (PLN) – the party of former president (1986-1990) and current presidential candidate Oscar Arias – chose Friday their candidates for the legislative elections in February.
According to a Liberation statement released Saturday, assembly members chose the ten legislators that Arias had proposed – four in San José and one in each of the six remaining provinces.
In total, the assembly members chose 36 legislative candidates. Six were chosen for Alajuela, northwest of San José, four for Cartago, east of San José, and three for Heredia, north of San José. Four were chosen to run for election in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, five for the Caribbean province of Limón and four more for the southern province of Puntarenas. All had the approval of Arias.
“I am very satisfied with the results, a full demonstration of trust on behalf of the members of the assembly. I feel very content with the people that we chose, men and women committed to the ideals, the ethic,” Arias said to local press.
Among the candidates for the Legislative Assembly in San José are the former Education Minister Francisco Pacheco, the economist and former World Bank official Silvia Charpentier and the Vice-President of the Costa Rican Chamber of Industries, Mayi Antillón.
Of the 36 candidates, 15 are women, of which five are located in the first place on the election cards in the provinces of Guanacaste, Alajuela, Limón and Puntarenas.
The Legislative Assembly is composed of 57 legislators.
-ACAN-EFE
Police Release Statistics
For First Half of Year
Across the nation, police arrest an average 151 people daily, the Public Security Ministry announced over the weekend.
According to a study conducted by the Public Security Ministry Department of Information Analysis and Treatment, police arrested 27,417 people in the first six months of this year, mostly for domestic violence, drugs, assaults and robberies. This represents a rise when compared to the same period last year, when a little more than 23,000 people were arrested.
Not surprisingly, according to the study, San José was the region of Costa Rica with the most arrests, with 10,238, followed by Heredia, north of San José, with 2,806. The northwestern province of Guanacaste recorded 2,441 arrests, and Cartago, east of San José had 2,033 arrests. Limón, the principal port city on the Caribbean, registered 1,453 arrests in the first half of the year.
In the police's battle with car theft, officials recovered 389 stolen vehicles over the same period, most in San José, the statement said. In the capital, 199 cars were recovered, followed by the province of San Carlos in north-central Costa Rica, where 47 cars were recovered. Police located 44 stolen vehicles in the Southern Zone, 29 in Heredia, 12 in Alajuela and 10 in Cartago.
-ACAN-EFE
Tico Fishing Captain Released
From Ecuadorian Custody
Roberto Guevara, the captain of a Costa Rican fishing boat, was freed by authorities Aug. 29 in Ecuador, where he had been jailed for 136 days, the captain told the press.
In statements published yesterday in the daily La Nación, Guevara said he felt “very happy to be back in my country, on my land and with all my family, to whom I'm very thankful because they prayed that I would return soon.”
Authorities in Ecuador detained Guevara Apr. 15 when his boat Inmarsa 1 crashed against the rocks near the Galapagos Islands and sank in Ecuadorian waters in the Pacific Ocean.
The Costa Rican was arrested and transferred to a port on the island of Baltra, Ecuador.
The Ecuadorian authorities accused Guevara of negligence for taking his vessel to close to the islands, which have been declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The Inmarsa 1, with eight fishermen aboard, spilled fuel into the Ecuadorian waters as it sank, and the Ecuadorian authorities had to rescue the occupants.
The fishermen were initially detained along with their captain, however they were released in May, leaving Guevara to deal with the authorities.
The Ecuadorian government originally demanded a payment of $48,000, but Guevara eventually paid a fine of $400 and turned over his fishing equipment, valued at $10,000, to cover $6,000 he owed for the rescue expenses.
“It was very difficult when I was left alone. I didn't know what was going to happen. For 15 days I was depressed and spoke with almost nobody,” Guevara told the daily.
June 2, Costa Rican authorities rescued 48 Ecuadorians and 40 Peruvians who shipwrecked very close to the Islas del Coco, Costa Rica 's legendary “Treasure Island” – also declared a World Heritage Site – located 365 miles west of the Pacific port of Puntarenas.
The sailors, who had been drifting for nine days, were rescued by Costa Rican officials and taken to Islas del Coco, where they received medical attention and food before being picked up by an Ecuadorian ship.
-ACAN-EFE
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