[Pat Mcgroin]

Anyone have any first hand info in regards to.....Costa Rican government officials, including President Laura Chinchilla, Vice President Luis Lieberman Ginsburg, Security Minister Jose Maria Tijerino, counter-narcotics Commissioner Mauricio Boraschi, and the Costa Rican Congress agreed to Operation Joint Patrol, which will see 7,000 US Marines, 46 mainly U.S. Coast Guard vessels, and 200 helicopters and 10 combat aircraft descend on Costa Rica, which does not have a military force, from July 1 to December 31. I've read on some other forums that the Ticos are highly upset with this spreading of empire and do not wish it upon CR,my plans for retirement in CR may be changing as I really hope this isnt happening as I wish to escape America.
http://www.infowars....aten-nicaragua/

[expat99]

Yes, you can easily find news and analysis on-line in the country's daily periodical La Nación in Spanish or AMCostaRica in English and elsewhere which give a more balanced report. Not all 46 ships will "descend" on Costa Rica at the same time. Probably no more than 3 to 5 ships will visit at a time. And probably not all 46 ships will even make a port call here. There is no military base being planned here. There are some Costa Ricans who oppose the authorization and want others to believe it is some kind of invasion planned to take over Costa Rica by militarizing the counter-narcotics trafficking operations here. That's not going to happen any more than Hugo Chavez is going to have his puppet government in place any time soon but some are hoping for that. If you want to stick with the left wing extremist radical socialist loving nut job propaganda outlets well that's your choice. But then don't complain about being misinformed.



If you want to retire in Costa Rica, there's a group and a protest to join here for anyone and everyone. Don't worry.

This post has been edited by expat99: 09 July 2010 - 07:59 AM

[ciclista]

Yes, certain "news" outlets, which also have kind things to say every day about Hugo Chavez (aka Castro's protege), are talking as if all of CR is against this, blah, blah, blah, but the vote in the CR legislature was 31-8 in favor. You can draw conclusions from all of this.

[newman]

Pat Mcgroin, on 08 July 2010 - 07:59 PM, said:

Anyone have any first hand info in regards to.....Costa Rican government officials, including President Laura Chinchilla, Vice President Luis Lieberman Ginsburg, Security Minister Jose Maria Tijerino, counter-narcotics Commissioner Mauricio Boraschi, and the Costa Rican Congress agreed to Operation Joint Patrol, which will see 7,000 US Marines, 46 mainly U.S. Coast Guard vessels, and 200 helicopters and 10 combat aircraft descend on Costa Rica, which does not have a military force, from July 1 to December 31. I've read on some other forums that the Ticos are highly upset with this spreading of empire and do not wish it upon CR,my plans for retirement in CR may be changing as I really hope this isnt happening as I wish to escape America.
http://www.infowars....aten-nicaragua/

I've been here almost 8 (eight) years - I personnaly would not let this stop me from retiring in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is not about to change!!

[costaricafinca]

There are more things to worry about here, than these ships.

[harvcarp]

expat99, on 09 July 2010 - 07:23 AM, said:

Yes, you can easily find news and analysis on-line in the country's daily periodical La Nación in Spanish or AMCostaRica in English and elsewhere which give a more balanced report. Not all 46 ships will "descend" on Costa Rica at the same time. Probably no more than 3 to 5 ships will visit at a time. And probably not all 46 ships will even make a port call here. There is no military base being planned here. There are some Costa Ricans who oppose the authorization and want others to believe it is some kind of invasion planned to take over Costa Rica by militarizing the counter-narcotics trafficking operations here. That's not going to happen any more than Hugo Chavez is going to have his puppet government in place any time soon but some are hoping for that. If you want to stick with the left wing extremist radical socialist loving nut job propaganda outlets well that's your choice. But then don't complain about being misinformed.



If you want to retire in Costa Rica, there's a group and a protest to join here for anyone and everyone. Don't worry.

[harvcarp]

welovecostarica.com has many posts from the types you are referring to!!

[stfree]

ALL Ticos I have spoken with feel very threatened by the increasing number of narco elements coming into the country.

There are franchises of two Mexican and several Columbian cartels attempting to set up shop here with their predictable violence following. Practically every week there is a report of some drug related incident.

The biggest fear is that the narco lifestyle and narco money will begin to recruit Tico children into their ranks. As that threat would attack the very core of Costa Rican life, they are definitely in favor of any means to prevent this.

The Ticos know that they do not possess the law enforcement personnel nor equipment to interdict the flood of drugs passing thru so they see this as welcome help.

And so do I.

[ciclista]

Currently, the CR Coast Guard can do nothing to stop drugs from being moved along the coasts of CR. IF the CR CG boat has fuel available, their boats are far too slow to do any more than wave to the smugglers as they speed past and away from them. Some of those drug-carrying boats land in CR where the drugs are offloaded into trucks and warehouses in CR.

The ridiculous assertions that the US wants to take over CR, or invade with it's military is unfounded. For one thing, there are no natural resources in CR that the US wants, or labor for technology and agriculture that US companies don't already have relatively free access to.

One Tico told me today that he would love to see a greater US military presence here because the Coast Guard, and to a large extent the police, are helpless against any kind of serious criminal activity.

As for claims that the US will use CR to launch military attacks against Nicaragua, that's just more of the typical paranoid ranting from the (essentially) dictator in Nicaragua, and similar from the same in Chavez. The US could place ships off the coast of Nicaragua and do whatever they choose, regardless of CR. But...they don't.

[Lunja]

To add to the rumor mill - I was sent this explanation of the US forces in CR - Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America’s a catastrophic earthquake.

ROFLMAO
cindy

[Epicatt2]

Lunja, on 10 July 2010 - 09:26 AM, said:

...Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America’s a catastrophic earthquake.

Well Cindy,

Let's keep our fingers crossed that someone adapts this scenario into a Tony Award-Winning Musical Comedy . . .

What should it be named? . . . Maybe 'GO WITH THE FLOW' ?

Hey, if they made musicals named CATS, and MISS SAIGON, anything is possible!

[ Shakes head... ]

Paul M.
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[DanaJ]

Hey, if it discourages the narcotics traffickers, I'm all for it. But really, I don't think its a jump start for yet another contra run on Nicaragua, or an invasion of Venezuela. Per some military folk I have talked too, the USA is way too over-stretched as it is in the Mid East. We just do not have the resources now. Don't forget that we STILL have over 100,000 troops, etc stationed in Iraq. Uh, What,they are still there? YES. Just not actively patrolling the citys now.
DJ

[ciclista]

Conspiracy theories are convenient because no matter the facts and reality, a conspiracy theory is still good fun for those who like to entertain themselves in this way.


The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500 man elite fighting unit called the U.S. REDNECK SPECIAL FORCES (USRSF)

These Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and North & South Carolina boys will be dropped into Iraq and have been given only the following five facts about terrorists:

1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music, or Jesus.
5. They are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

This mess in Iraq should be over IN A WEEK.

[David C. Murray]

And the Pentagon will announce this morning a special detachment of female Special Forces troops, all with PMS, for an extended desert assignment. Not only are they more aggressive than regular troops but they also retain water.

Now . . . Can we move on?

[stfree]

David C. Murray, on 13 July 2010 - 07:20 AM, said:

Now . . . Can we move on?

Yes, PLEASE!!!