Costa Rica files international court complaint against Nicaragua over border dispute

Costa Rica takes Nicaragua dispute to world court
SAN Jose, Costa Rica - Costa Rica is taking its border dispute with Nicaragua to the International Court of Justice. Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rene Castro says Costa Rica filed the case with the Netherlands-based court after Nicaragua decided to disregard an Organization of American States resolution that it withdraw Troops from disputed territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. Castro told reporters Thursday he is conf...

Costa Rica takes Nicaragua dispute to world court
SAN Jose, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica is taking its border dispute with Nicaragua to the International Court of Justice. Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rene Castro says Costa Rica filed the case with the Netherlands-based court after Nicaragua decided to disregard an Organization of American States resolution that it withdraw Troops from disputed territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. Castro told reporters Thursday he is...

Costa Rica files case against Nicaragua in international court
(CNN) -- Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded. In a statement Thursday, Costa Rica's Foreign Ministry said the country had filed a Lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, to end a situation that "threatens imminent and irreparable harm" to Costa Rica. The suit asks the court to stop "the construction of a canal on Costa Rican soil," according to the ...

Costa Rica Files ICJ Case Against Nicaragua
(CNN) — Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded. In a statement Thursday, Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry said the country had filed a Lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, to end a situation that “threatens imminent and irreparable harm” to Costa Rica. The suit asks the court to stop “the construction of a canal on Costa Rican soil,” ac...

Ortega Picks On Costa Rica to Rally Support At Home
For the past couple of years, Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega has been desperately seeking to subvert his country’s constitution and feeble democratic institutions in order to stand for re-election next year. Since the Nicaraguan constitution bars him from running for a third term (he was president in 1985-1990), Ortega tried unsuccessfully to have the constitution amended by the National Assembly, where his Sandinista party lacks a majority to do so. However, through judicial sh...

Nicaragua Invades Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps, Ctd
The Lede complicates the story: The idea that Nicaragua had relied on Google Maps for a Military Deployment, and stumbled across a frontier because of a mistake by the search giant, set off peals of laughter worldwide, sent Google scrambling to explain and fix the error, and led Journalists to discover another mistaken Google Map that could provoke an international incident. What few people outside Central America seemed to notice was that there was a problem with the punchline: in the weeks s...

Costa Rica's Border War with Nicaragua: A Boost for Ortega?
Costa Rica famously does not have a Military. But in a border tiff that has escalated into a Public Relations War, it seems to be getting the better of its neighbor Nicaragua. The point of contention is their mutual border. Earlier this month, Costa Rica accused Nicaragua of invading its territory and destroying protected forests as part of the Sandinista government's Military-supported river-dredging operations near the frontier. Nicaragua claims it has not crossed the border, and argues Cost...

NICARAGUA: Ortega Picks On Costa Rica to Rally Support At Home.
NICARAGUA: Ortega Picks On Costa Rica to Rally Support At Home. ...

Costa Rica's New IVF Law Unacceptable
11.17.10 - Costa Rica's proposed bill on in vitro fertilization (IVF) violates international Human Rights standards, according to a brief the Center submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on November 18. Even though IVF has helped countless couples around the world have Children they desperately want, Costa Rica has outlawed it since 2000. The Center filed an friend-of-the-court brief supporting a Lawsuit against the absolute ban before the IACHR in 2004. In August ...

The Google Maps War That Wasn't
Esteban Felix/Associated Press Nicaraguan Troops Remain in Costa Rica, but Why? Nicaraguan Troops are still hunkered down on an island across the country’s border with Costa Rica. Heard the one about Nicaragua accidentally invading Costa Rica because of a Google Maps error? Two weeks ago, the story was hard to miss, as the tale of the accidental invasion was repeated on thousands of Web sites. The frenzy began after a Costa Rican newspaper asked Edén Pastora, a former Sandinista comm...

Lieberman instructs UN envoy to file complaint over phosphorous bombs fired from Gaza
Foreign Minister: Rocket fire another reminder to international community that Israel's southern residents are forced to live in constant fear of terror....

A growing number of climate negotiators call for a stop to the bickering so that we can find solutions to climate change
The newest and perhaps best hope to push for strong international action to fight Climate Changes took place recently in Costa Rica. The countries in the so-called Cartagena Dialogue met again to discuss how this group of countries could help push for aggressive action at the international Climate treaty negotiations that will take place in December in Cancún, México. I just happened to be in Costa Rica before this meeting, working with our partners to help Costa Rica become more c...

Ortegas Land Grab
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. With the world distracted by currency fights, European Debt problems, and other economic challenges, Nicaragua has quietly invaded and occupied the sovereign territory of Costa Rica. It is an act of naked aggression that deserves to be condemned and resisted by governments everywhere, yet most Americans have probably read little or nothing about it. Here’s a brief synopsis of what happened. At the direction of their government...

2 moms charged with $30K school embezzlement
(11-19) 05:00 PST San Jose, Calif. (AP) -- Two California moms have been charged with embezzling $30,000 from their kids' Elementary School fund that pays for extras, such as hiring School counselors and kindergarten handwriting programs. San Jose prosecutors say 42-year-old Jennifer Lee Vazquez and 28-year-old Wendi Marie Hayes oversaw the Baldwin Elementary Home and School Club account. Bank officials notified club officers because of unusual charges to Netflix, J.C. Penney, Old Navy and gas...

Puralytics wins Cleantech Open competition
An Oregon startup company that uses LED lights to purify water has won the fifth annual Cleantech Open, a nationwide competition to find and promote promising green technologies. Puralytics, based in Beaverton, will receive a package of cash and services worth about $290,000. The 3-year-old company beat out a field of 17 other finalists to take top honors at an awards ceremony in San Jose on Wednesday night. It was the first time in the contest's history that the national prize went to a compa...

San Jose man says federal agents roughed him up in mistaken identity case
Source: San Jose Mercury News San Jose -- His arms yanked behind his back, face smashed against a car hood, David Cole shouted with pain, wondering why in the world he was getting busted by plain-clothed Law Enforcement agents in the handicapped parking space just outside of a Target. The 51-year-old Disabled man had no gun, no drugs, no warrants. Cole had heart pills, two bags of dog food, a bottle of bleach, and things for his wife, Zenobia, who was now screaming at the agents: "Why are you do...

Meg Whitman pays ex-maid $5,500 settlement
Meg Whitman, who spent $145.1 million of her own money in an unsuccessful bid for California Governor, agreed Wednesday to write one more check - this time for $5,500 to Nicandra Diaz Santillan, her undocumented former housekeeper whose charges of financial abuse became a turning point in the Billionaire's race against Jerry Brown. "We're very, very happy about the settlement," said celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who accompanied Diaz, an East Bay mother of three, to an informal hearing befo...

Meg Whitman's former maid gets $5,500 in back wages
Meg Whitman's former maid today was awarded $5,500 in back wages she claimed was owed to her from the former Candidate for Governor. Nicky Diaz Santillan and her celebrity attorney, Gloria Allred, met this morning at the California Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement in San Jose, seeking more than $10,000. She said she was owed the money for work she did beyond the 15 hours a week for which she was paid during the nine years she worked for Whitman. Santillan said she was asked to perfor...

Allred claims 'irrefutable evidence' in housekeeper case
From Susan Ferriss in San Jose: Attorney Gloria Allred said today that she has "Irrefutable" evidence that former Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman owes her former Mexican housekeeper between $8,000 and $10,000 in wages and mileage. The amount - which includes what the housekeeper spent on driving - is more than the approximately $6,000 wage claim that was originally filed against Whitman on Sept. 29. Whitman's husband, Griffith Harsh, an attorney for the couple and Whitman spok...

Oakland Wants A's to Stay Even if They Don't Want to
The A's may want to move to San Jose but with Baseball dragging its feet in approving a move into Giants' territory, the team may have to explore more options if it wants to play in a new stadium anytime soon. Oakland is moving ahead, with the full support of its new mayor-elect Jean Quan, to explore the possibility of building a new 39,000-seat stadium near Jack London Square and the 880. The Oakland Planning Commission will consider the proposal at a meeting on Dec. 1. The commission is curren...

Oakland moves ahead with waterfront ballpark plan : SFGate: Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat
0 With Jean Quan as mayor-elect, Oakland is moving forward with its ballpark plan, presenting the Victory Court site on the estuary near Jack London Square as its preferred option to Major League Baseball, according to East Bay Express. Oakland's renewed interest comes after Victory Court supporter Quan narrowly defeated Don Perata, who did not support a new ballpark and had $25,000 in backing from A's owners Lew Wolff and John Fisher. Oakland will pay for an environmental impact report on th...

Jurors convict Calif man for 1981 tourist killing
San Jose, CALIF. — A San Jose jury has convicted a 60-year-old man for the 1981 New Year's Day shooting death of a German tourist whose bullet-riddled body was dumped in a carport. It took jurors less than a day to convict 60-year-old Melvin Forte on Wednesday for Kidnapping, raping and murdering 23-year-old Ines Sailor. The same jury will now decide whether Forte should be executed or sentencing to life in Prison without possibility of Parole. The San Jose Mercury News says Forte is al...

Bay Area prosecutors warn TSA agents not to be sexual with pat downs
A passenger is patted down at Terminal A checkpoint. Passenger have a choice to skip this and instead go through the new full-body Scanner. (Karen T. Borchers/Mercury News) As nearly 2 million holiday travelers pack Bay Area airports starting Friday, local prosecutors have a warning for overzealous security agents performing the new federal pat-down: touch passengers the wrong way, and we'll throw you in jail. Unsuspecting families and rookie travelers using San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland i...

Elections Commission investigator recommends no action on alleged campaign violations
A San Jose Elections Commission investigator is recommending that allegations of Contributions]Campaign Violations against some supporters of Council]City Councilwoman Madison Nguyen during her last two runs for office be dismissed for lack of evidence. "All the complaints against us are untrue and unfounded," said Robert Sandoval, a 73-year-old Nguyen supporter, who was pleased to hear the news Friday. "We conducted ourselves as clean campaigners." The five-member commission will consider the matter at its

NHL: Dallas 5, San Jose 4 (OT)
Published: Nov. 18, 2010 at 11:55 PM DALLAS, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Mike Ribeiro tied the game with 2:06 left in Regulation Thursday and then scored 2:52 into overtime, giving Dallas a 5-4 victory over San Jose. The goals were the first of the season for Ribeiro, whose 16-game scoring drought was the longest he has had at the start of a campaign during his 11-year career. San Jose was in control with a 4-2 lead before James Neal tipped in a shot to start the Dallas comeback. Ribeiro's tying goal came ...