Archive for December, 2009
Friday, December 18th, 2009
The vehicular restrictions of San José will be lifted beginning Monday, December 21 and will resume on Monday, January 4, 2010.
Germán Marín, the director of the Policía de Tránsito, said his officials will, beginning on Friday, focusing on spot checks for drinking and driving all around the country for a safe holiday season.
Marín said the traffic police operations will be on full alert around the clock and unlike in previous years, spotchecks for drinking and driving, will also be held during daylight hours and at locations not accustomed to by drivers.
The vehicular restrictions are to reduce traffic congestion in San José from Monday to Friday, from 7am to 7pm, depending on the last digit of the license plate of the vehicle.
And although the validity of the fines of the vehicular restriction of San José is still before the Sala Constitucional (Constitutional Court), Tránsito officials continue to enforce it and issue fines.
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
The Hospital Nacional de Niños (Children’s Hospital) said on Wednesday that it will report to Ministerio Público (Public Prosecutor) parents, guardians or any adult charged with the care of a minor, who is injured in a vehicle accident and not wearing a seatbelt.
The decision follows the case of an accident that occurred Monday in Nicoya were two year old twins, not wearing their seatbelt, where injured when a vehicle they were riding flipped over.
The vehicle, according to the director de Tránsito, Germán Marín, was at the hands of a minor.
Marco Vargas, head of the trauma unit at the Hospital Nacional de Niños made the announcement on ADN noticias (90.7FM) that children not buckled in are likely to be ejected from the vehicle and die or suffer permanent injuries.
“We will denounce before the authorities any person who exposes a child to these types of injuries. There is a lack of duty of care that is prescribed in the Código de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (Childhood and Adolescence code”, said Vargas.
Vargas said the twins in Monday’s accident are recovering at the Hospital Nacional de Niños from severe head injuries.
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
A Costa Rica vacation would mean a wild nature tripping adventure. It promises to be one of the most unforgettable. You will be amazed at the wonders of the earth.
If you are looking for the ultimate nature trip, then the Central American nation of Costa Rica is right for you. Here you can experience going up close to its several active volcanoes, getting to know its wonderful marine life, hiking through lush rain forests and going to the mountains to visit its several cloud forests.
Although the country of Costa Rica is small compare to its Central American neighbors, it is huge on bio diversity. Costa Rica is the ultimate nature paradise cause of its diverse flora and fauna. Whether you are a surf nut, beach bum, nature enthusiast or just someone looking for a place to chill out and escape the urban life for a while, come and visit Costa Rica and experience a vacation like no other!
Active volcanoes
There is no other place in the world like Costa Rica if you are fond of active volcanoes. Here you can marvel at the sight of its lava streams. Be amazed at the wonder of nature at its extremes. You can travel to some of its active volcanoes like, the Volcan Arenal, Poás or Irazú. There are several tours which can take you where the action really happens and there you can see the volcanoes erupting daily.
Rain Forests
The rain-forests, tropical dry forests and cloud forests here in Costa Rica are home to an impressive variety of not only birds, but also lizards, monkeys, snakes, butterflies, sloths and frogs. Take a trip here to see a number of the rarest wildlife on the face of the earth including Leather-back turtles, Morpho butterflies, Scarlet Macaws and the Central American squirrel monkey. You can also take a canopy tour and zoom across the rain-forest to appreciate incredible views of the jungle below.
Exploring the Coastline
For those people who like better the open spaces, take a car rental Costa Rica driving along Costa Rica’s stunning coastline. Costa Rica, bordering the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on either side, and being a habitat of an overabundance of amazing and exotic coral reefs and marine life, its coast literally offers many extraordinary opportunities to see various dolphin species, migrating whales, the endangered West Indian manatee and sea turtles as they swim along Costa Rica’s coasts.
Costa Rica, with its own unique take on ecotourism today has established its role as one of the foremost ecological vacation hot-spots on the planet. Creating its image as an eco-wonderland, Costa Rica promises you unforgettable vacations.
There are exciting activities here that await the visitors. You can go hiking along the trails of the tropical rain-forests in their famous Corcovado National Park. The Palo Verde National is another park to explore. It is populated with many local and migratory birds. The hiking trail here is also recommended. You have the option to go boating to explore the other areas.
Visit Barra Honda Caverns if you are into a wild spelunking adventure. These caves are very well kept. The lime-stones inside have been there for many centuries already and are being protected.
It will take a boat trip to get to Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge, but it will be worth it. The wildlife view here is one of the most spectacular you will ever see.
And of course, nature tripping will not be complete without beaches. And Costa Rica is a heaven of wonderful beaches. In fact, it is good for water activities also like surfing. The surfing hot-spots here include Playa Hermosa, Jaco, Tamarindo, and Pavones. The waves are perfect for a wild surfing adventure.
Costa Rica Tours, Perfect Opportunity
When you are thinking about taking the Costa Rica tour, it is perfect opportunity that you could make. In fact, Costa Rica is considered one of the countries in South America that is brimming with picturesque beauty in diverse forms and it is politically steady. There is plethora of Costa Rica all-inclusive resorts to select from when you choose to attend the place that also called the paradise Nature. A Costa Rica holiday will assist you to decide on no matter what you are interested in: a calming beach, wildlife, waterfalls, or a lush rain-forest.
This republic is a perfect destination for all types of adventurers and vacationers. The living high standard at a low price is one of the major attractions. Costa Rica is situated in Central America and it is abutted by the North Pacific and the Caribbean on every side. Many surfers choose Costa Rica tours as the shoreline called Golden Coast can offer plenty of breaks near together because of which surfing becomes exciting and energizing. The all-inclusive hotels in Costa Rica amongst lush jungles and pristine beaches make it an ideal spot for a weekend or a honeymoon getaway.
Many Costa Rica tours just embrace visits to the seashore but there numerous things to investigate in Costa Rica.
Hotels, National Parks: Chirripo, Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Corcovado, Totuguero and Manuel Antonio. Whatever your vacations interests; jungle adventure tours, eco-tourism, white water rafting, surfing, scuba diving incredible reefs, canopy tours, golf, all inclusive hotels, bird watching, sport fishing and swimming with dolphins in crystal-clear ocean waters, or just relaxing on an unspoiled tropical beach, you will find all of that and more in this tropical and secure paradise.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Exports for Intel Costa Rica recovered from the decline they had been experiencing since April 2008 for the second consecutive quarter.
Increased demand for chips and chipsets for computers and cellular phones generated sales of $595 million for the company between July and September of this year, 18% more ($91 million) than for the same period in 2008.
In the three months leading up to that time, the multinational based in Heredia also improved its exports.
From April to June, sales surged by 8% ($32 million) in relation to the same quarter last year, reaching revenues of $ 449 million.
Karla White, manager of Intel’s Corporate Relations in Costa Rica, said that markets where Intel sells, Asia, America and Europe, have recovered faster than expected from the financial crisis and this has benefited the company.
White conceded that the multinational’s increase in exports is also due, to a lesser extent, to the transfer of part of the production that the company had been doing in three plants that it closed in Asia earlier this year.
The manager added that the rise in sales in the second and third quarters have helped the company to predict a positive close for this last quarter.
Intel will finish 2009 with exports of $1.9 billion, up 3% over 2008 ($1.85 billion).
However, White would not venture to affirm that the world financial crisis has been overcome in its totality.
“We have no magic ball. We are looking at the market with optimism and we have positive outlook for 2010, but we are not making projections yet,” she said.
The lowest point in the transnational’s sales occurred between November 2008 and January 2009. During those months, exports fell $262 million (44%) compared to $594 million during same period in 2008.
Intel’s business placements represent 20% of total Costa Rican exports. The improvement since the second quarter has caused sales of the country’s sales to decrease at a slower rate since then.
White pointed out that investment and production technology has been vital to lifting the company’s sales. “People want a performance increase. There is a very positive performance by mobile products (laptops and cell phones) where the Atom processor has played an important role,” White added.
These devices operate with chips and chip-sets that Intel is making here. The chips and microprocessors are the brains of electronic devices, while the chipsets are equivalent to a computer’s nervous system and they are responsible for controlling the flow of within.
The manager said that new server technology also increased sales the above-mentioned equipment from Costa Rica.
“With these servers, companies that have or provide services to other data center (data storage centers) achieve greater efficiency and, therefore, they upgrade equipment,” she said.
Servers are Intel’s main product manufactured in Costa Rica, and they enable companies to store and distribute vital information on their computer network.
Intel may not be sure about the world economic crisis, but news is good so far. If sales and exports continue to increase, it will also help Costa Rica overcome the world financial crisis.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Although the president of the Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR) – Central Bank, Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez, assures that this year has been a difficult year for the Costa Rican economy, he feels that the country has handled the crisis a lot better than most had thought.
Gutiérrez said that the economy should see a growth of 2.5% in 2010, following a drop of 1.5% this year due to the economic crisis.
The Central Bank president added that he expects inflation in 2010 4.7%, a goal that can be achieved thanks to reduced expectations and pressures on spending.
However, Gutiérrez cautioned that there are several factors that will affect those predictions: the cost of oil, flows of short-term capital and a further deterioration in the fiscal deficit.
Overall the Central Bank president was positive and optimistic.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
It’s Christmas and along with the tamales, the parades and festivals and presents from Santa, the tradition of children burned by the mishandling of fireworks continues.
The Hospital Nacional de Niños (Children’s hospital) reports the second case this month of a child severely burned by the misuse of fireworks.
It is a tradition to set out fireworks for Christmas and New Years, as is the tradition of selling illegal and poor quality fireworks and for parents to allow their children to play with them.
The ministerio de Salud recommends the proper handling of fireworks and calls on parents to keep an eye on their children.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
It’s no secret that North Americans are the dominating foreigners that live in Costa Rica. And because of that, Costa Rica also would like to increase Canadian tourism. It is estimated that some 100,000 Canadians come to Costa Rica each year and about 10,000 Canadians live there, compared to 10 times that amount of Americans.
And because of the Canadians tourism and expats, both governments want to increase revenue from it. However, there is this, Do this for me first and, I will think about doing this for you second, mentality will probably stone wall any reasonable agreement between the two countries if they don’t wake up to reason.
Last week, Michaëlle Jean, the Canadian governor general, met with President Óscar Arias Sánchez to help develop a better relationship. However, Jean is only a representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Canada, at most, a ceremonial post, but does have a tad of influence. How much? Humm … interesting question.
There are a lot of major hurdles to accomplish a better relationship, we will write about three that we consider have to be overcome if either government wants to develop a better relationship and make some more bucks while doing it.
* One – U.S.-Central American free trade treaty is more liberal than the one negotiated earlier by Canada that went into force in November 2002. U.S. firms have become involved in the lucrative insurance and telecommunications markets under terms of the Central American treaty where Canadians firms have not. Canada wants more Free Trade.
* Two – Costa Rica would like Canada to issue visas from their embassy to Costa Ricans instead of shipping these documents to Guatemala, which has been the normal process for years. Obviously, for a Costa Rican to wait for an out-of-country visa more time, and Costa Ricans are feeling the same BS as they have been with trying to get a visa at San Jose Embassy.
* Three – Arrogances between the two has to be shelved. For example, Aries sorta demanded he would like to see double and triple the Canadian airline flights to San Jose. And Canadian governor general, said. [investing] in Costa Rica, was a “daring experiments,” and a “gamble” that “consists of betting on peace in a highly militarized region (meaning Central American in general) and inextricably linking this path towards peace to democratization and environmental protection.”
My thoughts on hearing Aris, Give Canada the same Free Trade as you have done with the US.
My thoughts on hearing Jean, Gee doesn’t she realize that Costa Rica has been the most peaceful counting in all of Central and South America, and because of this, that is why they have no military. And issue the damn visas!
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The FDA has announced the opening of its Mexico City post, the agency’s third office in Latin America and the tenth international post created in just over a year.
The new site will harmonize regulatory and guidance standards, and work on other collaborative initiatives between the U.S. and Mexican governments, such as information sharing, joint workshops on food and drug safety, and training on food-borne illnesses, the agency said in a release today.
FDA commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, noted that more than a third of the fresh fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S. come from Mexico, along with a substantial number of medical devices.
The FDA will work with the foreign government agencies and private companies to develop certification programs, according to Murray M. Lumpkin, MD, the FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for International Programs.
The new office is another element in the FDA’s global initiative to regulate exports and imports between the U.S. and other countries and establish relations with foreign regulatory authorities, the agency said.
The FDA’s international posts are located in China, India, Europe, and Latin America, including offices in Santiago, Chile, and San José, Costa Rica.
The FDA opened its first Latin American office in Costa Rica this April. The first international office was opened in China in November 2008, with posts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
The FDA maintains contact with foreign regulatory agencies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East through offices in Rockville, Md.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
In 10 days the country’s largest and most attended fair is set to open and workers of the Municipalidad de San José are working feverishly to put the finishing touches before the Ministerio de Salud (Health ministry) inspection.
Each year, the Zapote Fair organizers scurry to make last minute changes and adjustments in fear of not getting their operating permit by health officials, as it occurred a couple of years back.
Of course the blame for the last minute work does not rest entirely on the Municipalidad de San José, this year the Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz (national light and power company), a division of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), has to complete a series of work on the fair grounds before the chinamos (food stands) and the bars concessionaires can begin their work and ready for the December 25 opening day.
However, before the fair can kick off at noon on Christmas Day, Health officials have to be satisfied that all safety and health regulations have been met.
The Zapote Fair is a tradition in San José and Costa Rica, as hundreds of thousands of fair goes visit each year.
The fair grounds are Zapote, on the east side of San José, across from the Registro Nacional. The fair runs until January 3.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Costa Rica has gone from being a bridge for drug trafficking between South and North America to becoming established as a warehouse and trading center for drug cartels, from which the authorities have seized 92.7 tons of cocaine and $17 million in the last 3 1/2 years.
“In this part of the world we are privileged by nature and the climate, but it is also the drug route from south to north, and of money from north to south,” Security Minister Janina Del Vecchio said in her annual activities report.
She said that Costa Rica is no longer just a transit area for drugs.
Now, according to Del Vecchio, “traffickers come here and store the drugs, and they don’t even have intermediaries – Colombians come and leave the drugs and Mexicans come and pick them up.”
Her view is shared by the director of the OIJ criminal investigation agency, Jorge Rojas, who several days ago decried the fact that his country is turning into a “meeting ground for Mexican and Colombian cartels.”
Rojas said that in recent months Colombian drug-running organizations have been detected bringing drugs to Costa Rica, where they store them and sell them to their Mexican “colleagues,” particularly those of the Sinaloa cartel.
Figures from the Security Ministry show that since May 2006 authorities have confiscated 92.7 tons of cocaine, mostly from boats in the Pacific Ocean, and have dismantled 36 international drug rings, made up above all by Colombians and Mexicans.
Dozens of vehicles, speedboats and properties have also been confiscated, as well as more than $17 million in cash.
“This is a very serious problem and does not mean we can’t contain it. We know, however, that we’re fighting against a giant with seven heads, against a structure with a bigger budget than any rich country in the world,” Minister Del Vecchio told Efe.
Noting that “80 percent of the drugs produced in South America” pass through Central America, she said regional coordination is crucial.
Police also need to be more specialized and have more technological resources available because the cartels are constantly reinventing their operations, she said.
Outstanding examples of drug-trade diversification discovered in Costa Rica this year have included hiding the banned substances in huge pieces of marble, inside of frozen sharks and in tanker trucks used for transporting chemicals.
“They have all the time and money in the world to traffic in any way they want: in wigs, surfboards, marble structures, sharks. They use anything that looks legal to do it,” Del Vecchio said.
The biggest seizure this year was a shipment of 2.2 tons of cocaine impounded last month at a warehouse in San Jose, while one of the most famous cases was the discovery of 395 kilos (870 pounds) of cocaine in a helicopter that crashed in May in the mountains in the eastern part of the country.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias told reporters that “geography” has condemned his country.
“We are the waistline of the Americas, we are between the producers and consumers and we can’t do a thing,” he said.
He added that “drug prices are such a huge incentive that it is almost impossible” to eradicate the cartels, and urged the United States to increase its resources dedicated to regional cooperation and fighting drug consumption.
Costa Rica is a nation of 4.5 million inhabitants and some 11,000 police, with dozens of unguarded border crossings and with extensive coasts, all of which makes it a natural for drug trafficking.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Having been immersed in a political crisis following the June 28 coup, Honduras has been trying to seek a way out of it despite a widely unrecognized presidential election late last month.
However, the election, which was once pinned hopes on to solve the political stalemate, turned out to be controversial and further polarized the Honduran society since many countries refused to recognize it.
President-Elect Porfirio Lobo’s triumph is confronted with countless doubts and challenges to restore order in the country. At least for the time being, it seems that the effects of the coup will linger on in the coming months.
A few countries, with the United States in the lead, have decided to accept the electoral results. Lobo considered that this would enable Hondurans to once again attain the country’s pre-coup status quo. (more…)
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
US-based BPO and KPO firm Motif has opened a delivery center in Costa Rica where it will offer bilingual service in English and
Spanish. The company aims to tap Latino client base in the US and other geography. The company will invest $2.5 million in the center and will begin operations in January next year.
“The delivery center in Costa Rica will be the first of its kind to provide bilingual support to its clients in both English and Spanish. We studied several site locations in Latin America and settled on Costa Rica for its proximity to the US and a host of other reasons. The country may not be as cheap as other Latin American countries. But in long term the total operations cost it will be cheaper. Also, the country offers a very well educated and stable workforce,” said Chris Meneze, president and CEO of Motif.
The global expansion is part of company’s risk mitigation strategy for its customers. Apart from bilingual support, the new delivery center will provide location redundancy.
The new center will be with 500-seat capacity and will generate around 1,000 jobs and is part of the Motif’s network of delivery centers in India, Manila and Philippines. The company offers services like customer support, online fraud prevention, research & analytics, and back office processes. Health-care, finance & accounting and knowledge services like social media listening and research and analytics are new service lines added to the company.
The company is also looking to shift to an IT SEZ in Ahmedabad and create at least 1000 more jobs. The process is expected to get finalized in 2010.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama said on Tuesday they were satisfied with the agreement reached between the Latin American banana producers and the European Union (EU), after more than 10 years’ negotiation over import taxes on that fruit.
Ecuador’s Deputy Trade Minister Julio Oleas said on Tuesday that Ecuador has reached an agreement on banana trade with the EU, which will benefit producers and traders because the import taxes were reduced.
The agreement was reached after a long and difficult negotiation of four months. It will come into effect after both sides finish their internal administrative and legal procedures.
According to the agreement, the EU duties on banana imports will be reduced from 176 euros (257 U.S. dollars) to 148 euros (216 dollars) per metric ton, and eventually to 114 euros (166 dollars) in eight years.
The agreement solves a decade-long dispute due to the non-fulfillment of the World Trade Organization commitment regarding the Latin American banana producers, said Oleas.
According to Oleas, the agreement will allow Ecuador to recover its competitiveness margin in banana export, compared with the producers in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. The bananas from those regions are shipped to the EU tariff-free.
Oleas said that Ecuador also discussed the export of tropical fruits to Australia, Canada, the United States, Iceland, Switzerland, Japan, Norway and New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister Marco Vinicio Ruiz said that he was “pleased to confirm that we have reached on Tuesday a satisfactory understanding with the EU on the bananas.”
Panama’s Commerce and Industry Minister Roberto Henriquez expressed his satisfaction over the agreement and said that “what is happening makes us very optimistic regarding the end of these difficult negotiations, where we can say with pride that the Panamanian negotiation team has played a fundamental role.”
Latin American bananas now account for about 60 percent of the EU market. In 2008, Ecuador exported 1.4 million tons of bananas, worth about 800 million dollars, to the EU.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
The sales of the 3G cellular network have been slow, with less than 11.000 lines sold in the first week of its introduction, of which 6.000 were customers moving from the TDMA service. The last time ICE introduced new cellular lines it sold its maximum 5.000 lines per day.
So, what is the difference this time?
Simple, new subscribers of the 3G service must have a 3G phone. And that is wherein lies the problem, 3G phones are expensive and few options are available in Costa Rica’s retail market.
Few of the customers who subscribed to the 3G already had their own phones, while the majority purchasing 3G units from ICE itself, as the institution makes changes to become more user friendly and offering more services.
However, that hasn’t worked so well, for the first week at least.
Although ICE is offering 3G cellular phones from Nokia, Motorola and ZTE, only ZTE phones where available by the end of the week, as most customers decided to choose Nokia and Motorola, depleting ICE’s inventory.
Jaime Palermo, head of ICE’s Dirección de Servicio al Cliente (customer service) said that the sales of the phones went well, as they are new to the market and more services than a GSM phone.
Palermo added than in time ICE will also be offering 3G phones from Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung and Huawei (the Chinese company that installed the 3G network).
Customers who do not have a 3G phone and cannot afford the one-time cost at a retail store, can opt for one of several ICE plans that include the phone and airtime with the cost spread out over 12 and 18 months.
For instance, ICE’s Plan Kolbi* offers customers 150 minutes of call time, 350 minutes of SMS and 10 minutes of MMS for ¢30.363 monthly for a Nokia 5800 or ¢31.519 for a Nokia E71. Plan Kolbi 500 offers 500 minutes of call time, 1500 minutes of SMS and 25 of MMS for ¢40.844 and ¢42.000 monthly for the same phones. Both plans are based on 12 months.
For those who want even more use, Plan Kolbi Ejecutivo offers 1.000 minutes of call time, 500 minutes of SMS and 30 minutes of MMS for ¢57.118 monthly for the Nokia 5800 and ¢57.865 for the Nokia e71 on a 18 month basis.
Only the Ejecutivo plan offers internet included. With all the other plans, customers have to subscribe to internet seperately, which varies in costs depending on connections speeds of between 128Kb to 4096Kb.
Customers who have their own equipment can purchase the KPlan Kolbi which offers 60 minutes of call time, 30 minutes of SMS and 0 minutes of MMS for ¢2.900 per month. This plan is the ICE basic plan it offers to all other GSM and TDMA customers.
With all this, there is one caveat, although the basic cost of the Kolbi plan is inexpensive, use of the MMS (multimedia) and internet can rack up a hefty monthly bill.
ICE does not yet have the costs for the MMS or internet connection, nor is it making it available just yet. ICE says the MMS and wide band internet will be available in January and costs could be similar to ICE’s Acelera plans which ranges from us$10 to us$91 monthly, depending on the connection speed.
Also, beginning this week, new customers do not have to have a previous appointment. Customers can walk in to any ICE agency, with their 3G cellular telephone, and get connected.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
While most Costa Ricans waited with bated breath watching the tumbler of the lottery corporation for the big prize, a group of criminals hit the jackpot without even playing the lottery, taking millions of colones in the robbery of the Banco Popular de Alajuelita, San José.
The group of men broke into the bank which did not have any security alarm or security personnel in the bank, taking with them more than ¢100 million colones.
Using an acetylene torch, the bank robbers cut open the automated teller machine and then bank’s vault, making their way in and out of the bank through a hole cut through a wall on the south side of the building.
Police officials say the thieves disabled the bank’s securty cameras and since the bank did not have a security alarm or security guard on the premises, the criminals were able to get in and out without being detected.
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