[NYTr] Repression and Authoritarianism Denounced in Costa Rica
 
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:19:03 -0500 (CDT)


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Granma Daily - Jul 12, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art54.html

Persecution Denounced in Costa Rica

SAN JOSE, July 11.b A climate of persecution and authoritarianism has
taken hold in Costa Rica under the administration of Oscar Arias
Sanchez, denounced sociologist Rogelio CedeC1o.

The professor at the National Autonomous University said the best
example is the campaign unleashed by big business interests and the
government, in Cold War style, against the Asamblea del Pueblo
(Peoplebs Assembly) political movement.

Since President Oscar Arias took office it has applied a policy to
criminalize citizen protests and has tried by all means to terrify
independent and combative leaders, said CedeC1o.

The judicial police are violating all the basic rights and freedoms
guaranteed under the existing laws, emphasized the professor.

The Peoplebs Assembly is an autonomous political movement whose main
tool in its effort to organize local popular assemblies throughout the
country is citizen participation, noted CedeC1o.

Meanwhile, a group of Costa Rican doctors denounced that a Free Trade
Agreement with the United States would increase the trafficking of
human organs and tissues, by making them merchandise with zero tariffs,
reported AFP.

Public universities, social and labor organizations, farmers and small
and medium business people, oppose CAFTA-DR, the Central
American-Dominican Free Agreement with the United States.

CAFTA-DR is supported by the Arias government and the most powerful
economic groups of Costa Rica, especially the export companies.
       
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