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May 3, 2013 at 12:00 am #167399creativeMember
If my memory is still intact, 40 years ago President John F. Kennedy visited Costa Rica and inaugurated the Hospital de Ninos.
The Volcan Irazu erupted with much damage caused by ashes and deaths due to rivers overflowing killing many of those living in Cartago.
I have been praying that this will not be the case this week.
I hope that the politicos will allow President Obama to visit the Atlantic Coast and meet the black population living there, see the well equipped airport field which was overlooked in order to boost the economy in Guanacaste by opening the Daniel Oduber airport which has been a source of much of the country’s drug problem as well as the Tobias Bolanos, with their laxed immigration practices.
Maybe he would consider addressing the reason for the poor development of the Atlantic region and take steps to assure that some of IMF, BID and other funds will be alloted to this region.
The APM project should not be the only source of economic development.
May 3, 2013 at 6:01 pm #167400phargParticipant[quote=”creative”]If my memory is still intact, 40 years ago President John F. Kennedy visited Costa Rica and inaugurated the Hospital de Ninos. The Volcan Irazu erupted with much damage caused by ashes and deaths due to rivers overflowing killing many of those living in Cartago. I have been praying that this will not be the case this week. [/quote]
Tomorrow is also the 113th anniversary of the major earthquake that destroyed Cartago and eventually led to the transfer of central government to San Jose.
The quake was fascinatingly described, also in a 1910 small book, in English and Spanish. The book can be downloaded here: http://archive.org/details/cartagoearthquak00fern
or, in unsuccessful in downloading, I can send as a PDF (4.6MB).
Hopefully those naughty BlackHawk heli vibes won’t set off another quake 🙄May 3, 2013 at 9:01 pm #167401Doug WardMemberJFK got planted in 1963. You suck at math.8)
May 3, 2013 at 9:15 pm #167402ImxploringParticipant[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”creative”]If my memory is still intact, 40 years ago President John F. Kennedy visited Costa Rica and inaugurated the Hospital de Ninos. The Volcan Irazu erupted with much damage caused by ashes and deaths due to rivers overflowing killing many of those living in Cartago. I have been praying that this will not be the case this week.[/quote]
You aren’t seriously suggesting that visits to Costa Rica by a US president causes earthquakes? I mean that must be a joke, right?
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Maybe he would consider addressing the reason for the poor development of the Atlantic region and take steps to assure that some of IMF, BID and other funds will be alloted to this region.[/quote]“He” meaning President Obama? Why would he insert himself into something which is purely a Costa Rican matter? That would be the height of arrrogance. President Obama has no jurisdiction over what the IMF does.[/quote]
Yeah…. right! He only appoints the member with the most voting power via the vote quota system…. that’s all. And that’s before we even start to apply political pressure to other member countries.
May 4, 2013 at 12:50 am #167403ImxploringParticipant[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”imxploring”]
Yeah…. right! He only appoints the member with the most voting power via the vote quota system…. that’s all. And that’s before we even start to apply political pressure to other member countries.[/quote]The current US member on the IMF board was appointed in 2007, which means she was appointed by President Bush. And while it is true that the US exercises the largest weighted vote on IMF board decisions, that vote percentage is only 17%, which means that the US is hardly in a position to dictate decisions.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/memdir/eds.aspx
But you ignore my main point: Why would President Obama get involved in a purely local matter, even if he had an opinion on the issue, which I suspect he doesn’t?[/quote]
The US has major influence besides the largest vote. The US involves itself in lot’s of “local” matters all over the world. Both for good and bad as history has shown us!
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