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DESCRIPTION:How Militarization Threatens the Tradition of Peace in Costa Rica\nSunday, 
 April 3 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM\n\nEach December Costa Ricans celebrate the 
 abolition of the military in 1948--but the military is making a comeback. 
 Under pressure to end drug trafficking and violence, the government has 
 welcomed the arrival of military from other nations and is having the 
 police trained in warfare. At the border with Nicaragua, they have 
 stationed militarized police. Government leaders propose that the 
 Constitution be changed and a military tax imposed. Right-wing hawks are 
 frightening the population and overwhelming democratic peaceful resistance. 
 Rather than a sudden coup toppling the government, democracy is being 
 eroded by a creeping coup to which the government has assented by 
 encouraging militarization, tolerating corruption, and welcoming foreign 
 intervention.\n\n An Analysis by Nicole Sault, Centro de Amigos Para la 
 Paz, Costa Rica.\n\nSan Francisco friends Quaker Meeting House\n65 Ninth 
 Street, San Francisco\nPlease enter through the north door, closest to 
 Market Street.\nThe building will be open by 3:30. \n\nSponsors: SOA Watch 
 San Francisco and the Task Force on the Americas\n\nA $5-10 donation is 
 suggested. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.\n\nINFORMATION: 
 415-924-3227\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/02/18676152.php
SUMMARY:How Militarization Threatens the Tradition of Peace in Costa Rica
LOCATION:San Francisco friends Quaker Meeting House\n65 Ninth Street, San 
 Francisco\nPlease enter through the north door, closest to Market 
 Street.\nThe building will be open by 3:30. \n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/02/18676152.php
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