Archive for September 16th, 2008
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Costa Rica’s Fiscal General, Francisco Dall’Anese, told Caracol Radio that Colombians are displacing the drug cartels of Central America and Costa Rica is the most vulnerable country because there has never been an aggressive delinquency.
“Thus they have a paradise to do their business”, added Costa Rica’s attorney general.
Dall’Anese says that Costa Rica’s tranquil tourist paradise has been invaded by Colombian “narcos” (drug traffickers), motorcycle assassins and guerillas, as crackdowns in the region send organized crime fleeing for more friendly waters.
Dall’Anese said he has formally requested training assistance from his Colombian counterpart, Mario Iguarán, as Costa Rica has no experience in protecting victims, witnesses and dignitaries, and in bringing cases against organized crime.
While the Colombian rebel group FARC has a presence in Costa Rica, it is down compared to to recent years. Drug trafficking activity, however, is on the rise.
Costa Rica seized only three tons of cocaine in 2005 and more than 70 in the last 18 months.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Costa Rican wireless broadband services operator, IDNet says that it has deployed a WiMAX network based on infrastructure kit supplied by Redline Communications. The project represents the first live private WiMAX network operating in the 3.3 GHz licensed spectrum in Costa Rica.
IDNet chose Redline’s RedMAX family of WiMAX products to enhance its current enterprise networks and provide value-added advanced data, internet and application services to existing and new customers located in areas that were previously difficult to service.
RedMAX base stations have been deployed in the urban areas of San José, Heredia, Alajuela, Cartago and the rural areas of Liberia, Santa Cruz, Puntarenas, San Ramon, Ciudad Quesada, Guapiles, Limon and Perez Zeledon.
IDNet continues to roll out its WiMAX network with the goal to provide services nation-wide by the end of 2008.
“I’ve worked with Redline’s broadband wireless products for the past five years for a range of applications. The positive experience and feedback from our customers made it an easy choice to select Redline’s RedMAX products for IDNet’s WiMAX network,” said Juan Carlos Pacheco, CEO of IDNet. “Even under extreme weather conditions and in remote areas of Costa Rica, Redline’s products prove to be reliable and continue to outperform and maintain coverage and high speed connections.”
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Now, proof has surfaced of the deal that brought Costa Rica to sever ties with an old ally, Taiwan. So China sells North American’ things they do not need with money they have to borrow then China gifts or loans the cash out to small countries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. Now why in the world would they do that?
From Reuters news
China is secretly spending $300 million of its currency reserves to buy Costa Rica government bonds to reward the central American country for cutting diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The FT said it had obtained documents related to the deal after La Nacion, Costa Rica’s largest newspaper, won a court case a week ago Friday and a judge ordered the government to release the information to the public.
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