Archive for September 2nd, 2008
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The Costa Rican Power and Telecommunications Institution (ICE in Spanish) bought an access route to the Internet which is less prone to accidents caused by ships or fishing nets, and thus would lower the chances of events that would interrupt the service in Costa Rica. The new link is the CFX-1 cable, which runs deeper than others and which spans thousands of miles in the Caribbean Sea, from Cartagena, Colombia, to Miami. Costa Rica will connect to this optic fiber highway via an extension to Panama. With the CFX-1, which belongs to Columbus Network, Costa Rica has four connections to the Internet; the others are Arcos and Maya (both in the Caribbean) and Global Crossing (in the Pacific).
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The Costa Rican police arrested Cuban American Pedro Rodriguez, 33, who is wanted in the United States for an $11.5 million scam. According to the police, Rodriguez had been hiding in Costa Rica for about a year.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The Costa Rican police busted a ring that engaged in trafficking cocaine and heroine in the Caribbean. Thirteen people, including 2 officers who acted as informants, were arrested. Official sources said that the gang used subsidized gasoline for the boats, because local Limon fishermen were involved. They added that the drug came from Colombia and at Limon was rerouted to Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States, among other destinations.
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