25th of July Celebrations
Residents of Nicoya Canton Protested the Government’s Unfulfilled Promises
From Voiceofnosara.com

The Public Force present during the 25th of July civic act intimidated Marcos Jimenez, mayor of Nicoya, demanding his identification card while he marched in a peaceful protest.


Nosara protesters hold banners during President Laura Chinchilla's speech

Also, the Transit Police created an obstacle for the buses of protestors that arrived from the communities of Nosara and Samara and tried to remove the license plates from the motor vehicles to take away support of the march.

Some 600 representatives from development associations, community groups, taxi drivers and syndics of the Municipality of Nicoya—among other groups—organized a march on Wednesday, July 25th, to protest before the executive power various unfulfilled promises in areas such as the deplorable state of the national highways, the deterioration of the educational infrastructure, the proliferation of the illegal public transportation of passengers and the lack of a medical specialties tower at the La Anexion Hospital, a public work that has been on the books since a year ago.

The protestors met at 9:30 a.m. in front of the Public Force installations for the Canton of Nicoya, where three busses, 80 cars, 9 microbuses and 40 taxi drivers arrived. They marched to the Recadero Briceño Park, where an extraordinary Municipal Council session was held with the absence of Mayor Marco Antonio Jimenez, who accompanied the protestors; in addition he was absent from the main platform.

Public Force troops tried to intimidate Jimenez when he joined the protest, demanding that he present his identification card, even though he is a well-known public official and walked freely along the public roadway.

Hours before, just as the three buses were 2 kilometers from arriving in the city of Nicoya, at the intersection of the community of Curime, along the highway to Playa Samara, officials of the Transit Police intercepted them to impede their passage with the objective of avoiding their exercising their right to express their displeasure with the dismal state of highway 160 that connects this district with Ostional beach, a national roadway with an extension of 28 kilometers.

Public Works Still on the Books

The Guanacastecans protested to the executive power the unfulfilled promise of constructing a completely new school for Leonidas Briceño, the principal educational center of this city, which has an enrollment of approximately 850 students.

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