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May 09Of how the Costa Rican youth feels empowered by spraying graffiti on National Monuments…
On Last May 1st (aka Labour Day) a disgruntled group marched to the Asamblea Legislativa –as it has grown to be common thing every first day of Virgin Mary´s dedicated month- to protest the “Plan Escudo” of President Arias intended to fight the current world crisis and it´s repercussions in our country. Apart from the customary reactionary expressions so “a la mode” since Chavez times during the mid 90´s, some hooded individuals also turned to spray on the recently restored walls of the Northern flank of the National Museum.
All this appears to have been caught on video by the surveillance cameras of the Fuerza Publica (Police Force) in staggering detail: while the disenfranchised artists painted away the northern wall, police men in direct proximity failed to react accordingly. The sequence of lawful actions lingered some more; after having dispersed the people involved in the show of political unrest, some 8 people were arrested for the artistic transgression. A Judge soon after decided to let them go under the harsh request that they would not become involved in similar acts for the extenuating period of a SINGLE month.
Oh no!, said the Authorities of the Museo Nacional, and they went on to present a query of complaint to the Ministerio de Seguridad (Ministry of Inbound Security) and to the judge in charge of the coordination/regulation of acts of flagrance/minor felonies. They wish make use of the edict that decreed the building of the ancient Military Headquarters of Bellavista (Modern Museo Nacional) as Architectonic and Cultural Patrimony, thus, cancelling the prior ruling and seeking to charge the actors of the nationalistic? deed with the proper legal implications. The estimated costs in damages come near to 3 and half million Colones.