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This brought a question to my mind and wondered if anyone can shed some light. I do know that in Costa Rica, you can 'negotiate' with the 'victim' of a crime and come to a financial settlement and criminal charges will be dismissed. However, with the charges facing CD, seems the country of Costa Rica would be the 'victim'. So is there any process to negotiate a 'settlement' for 'damages' done by the supposed 'criminal act' or in cases like this, is it a criminal trial period with no other options?

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There is always flexibility in a judicial system. Whether it is trial by jury or judiciary panel, the people deciding his fate will be of upper middle to upper class citizens with their values. I don't think a unanimous decision is required here, just a majority. Plea bargaining in this situation is a way for the system to save face. It may not formally exist here but it exists between attorneys and prosecutors. The attorney doesn't want to spend hours working and neither does the prosecutor. The judicial panels don't want to spend hours or days listening. They just want it to get worked out. Justice for the offenses that he is suspected of has already been served. Given the chance he will get out of Costa Rica never to return. By giving the interview he committed a new offense. He challenged the judiciary system of Costa Rica to put him on trial. He basically said the way they do things here in Costa Rica is wrong. The system is about to tell him if you don't like the way we do things here, you should have stayed at home.

The whole thing is a sham and an embarrassment to Costa Rica. They are bringing more attention to this than Dave ever did on his own. Telling them he will promote his experiences more when he is released doesn't seem to bright but he thinks they aren't letting him out anyway so why not? He's never going back to CR anyway.

He served long enough. Let him go before it turns into a worse situation.

Keep this in perspective..other than monger message boards no on has ever heard of Cuba dave

yeah there might be 200 people that even care to pay attention
and of those maybe 20 arent laughing at his stupid ass

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and 18 of them are scared shitless that they are next!

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Totally wrong. While I don't think he deserves to rot in a jail, he brought this on himself. He went out of his way to flaunt and profit from sex tourism in a very, very public way where he mad no attempt to hide his identity. The vast majority of us don't engage in such public, foolhearty behavior, intentionally thumbing our nose at multiple governments that make it know they are not thrilled with your hobby.

And, his actions were hardly victimless. He used fotographs of the chicas without their consent (and I know this for a fact) for his own financial gain.

What happens in fight club should stay in fight club- this asshat has made the hobby a little harder to enjoy....May he be get out of jail soon, and learn to keep is stupid mouth phucking shut. He also needs some psychotherapy to deal with his need to be big man on campus (i.e. emotional insecurity and feeling less than)- that is part of what fueled his foolishness.

Free Dave, and tap his mouth shut!

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^nice and who amongst us hasn't wondered if he has that moronic satisfied smile sitting in his cell these days?

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amcostarica.com post from this morning....

U.S. rights report has a few Costa Rican omissions
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

The U.S. State Department human rights report, released Wednesday overlooks aspects important to Americans. Among these are the unconstitutional detention of a sex tourism blogger, land invasions, inconsistencies in government development approvals and censored court records.

The report did mention property problems as it related to native populations. The report said the Costa Rican human rights abuses included harsh prison conditions and treatment, discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and infringement on the rights of indigenous people. Other human rights concerns included trafficking in persons, particularly sex trafficking of Ch*ldren. Domestic violence against women and Ch*ldren was also an area of societal concern, it added.

There was no mention of Dave Strecker, the Key West man who has been in prison since early September because he posted presumably true reports of his exploits with prostitutes in the Caribbean countries, including Costa Rica. The Constitution prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention, and the government generally observed these prohibitions, the report said of Costa Rica. Strecker is accused of violating a 2013 law prohibiting calling Costa Rica a sex tourism destination.

The State Department appears to be guilty of violating that law. The report said that the government identified Ch*ld sex tourism as a serious problem. But there was no evidence. This a continual claim by the State Department because so much U.S. taxpayer money has been invested with organizations that claim to fight sex tourism and prostitution.

There is bad news for Strecker in the report, because it says that a criminal court may hold suspects in pretrial detention for up to one year, and the court of appeals may extend this period to two years in especially complex cases. That is true even if the allegations turn out to be bogus.

The report said that the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia, the Ch*ld welfare agency, received 32 cases of commercial sexual exploitation of minors, presumably in 2015, but the judiciary
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reports just eight cases with four convictions in 2014.

The report overlooks the case of Las Olas, the development on the central Pacific coast that has been elevated to international arbitration with the World Bank. The project developers claim they have been whipsawed by changes in government rules after they failed to pay a $200,000 bribe to local officials.

Then there is the case, well-known to embassy workers, of a corporation with expat officers that has been fighting for 18 years to remove squatters and gain full control of property near Los Sueños on the central Pacific coast. There is no mention of this in the report.

However, the report does say that land ownership continued to be a problem in most native territories adding that violent incidents at the Bribri Salitre reservation over land disputes between native inhabitants and non-natives reemerged during the year.

The report also said that Costa Rica law provides for public access to government information, and the government generally implemented the law effectively, providing access for citizens and non-citizens, including foreign media.

That does not appear to be true of the judiciary where U.S. investigators have expressed concern because court decisions are being vetted to protect the so-called privacy of those involved. The investigators said that without names they could not complete a proper due diligence for their clients.

Also not mentioned in the report is the phenomenon of Gringo prices where U.S. and other expats, including embassy diplomats, are charged more in day-to-day transactions.

And there also is no mention of the legal profession’s habit of expropriating the money of clients.

The report on Costa Rica is HERE! A news story about State Department criticism of authoritarian regimes is HERE!

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I know, right, looks like someone else is not happy with NF, haha.....just joking But really, $10 for a rum & coke in a 3rd world MP

Great read, thanks for posting.....Dave is out on a ledge by himself on this one. A foreigner in a country with a completely different legal, perhaps corrupt(well at least enigmatic) legal process. Good lawyers, an inconclusive case against him, or directing his own PR campaign is his only hope now. I hope it ends well for him.

The land squatting stories were interesting and well known a risk here. As are the title & escrow laws. Really need to know the laws, allocate large monies for the best attorneys, and maybe budget a sinking fund for the unknown out of the blue expenses that are sure to arise.

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this is BS ... so now the US Dept of State is covering up human rights abuses for Costa Rica? I don't think so!

If they considered these human rights abuses, they'd report it. They're not going to pick and choose because they like visiting there or some cockamamie conspiracy theory in collusion. The AM reporter has a stick up their butt for CD.

Human rights has nothing to do with land ownership rights either. When did arbitration at the World Bank become a human rights issue? I find the whole article crap.

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Anyone interested in putting together a care package for C.D., let me know. He probably need toiletries, package food, maybe some flip flops and so forth. His visit will be on the 24th. Thanks.

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I'm not one to hit a guy when he is down. But that interview he gave couldn't of been more moronic if he tried.

Pretty clear he is happy where he is at. Anyone with half a brain would realize that in no way can help him and most likely would hurt him severely.

Maybe if he wouldn't of given that narrative that was posted earlier he would get some sympathy around here.

Most I feel the answer is a resounding NO !!!


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