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| Subject: The good: Little has changed 1 year after slaying of Costa Rica conservationist Jairo Mora Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:16 am | |
| For a comprehensive account of Costa Rica conservationist Jairo Mora’s murder, see “Why Jairo died”
MOÍN, Limón – It was February, and leatherback sea turtles had just starting arriving to nest on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast when Marielos Morice and I made our drive down the uneven dirt path along Moín Beach.
When the road turned to sand, Morice looked up and yelled for me to stop.
“This is the place,” she said. “This is where they killed him.”
We stepped out of the car and Morice walked me to the spot where police found the body of 26-year-old sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora in the early morning of May 31, 2013.
I had expected a memorial or an altar or at least the stencil of Mora’s face that had become ubiquitous graffiti in San José. But nearly a year later, nothing about the patch of beach told the story of Mora’s death or the chain of events that landed seven men on trial for his murder.
The slaying was the culmination of a bitter feud between the beach’s turtle protectors and local egg poachers. It started nine years ago with Morice’s daughter, Vanessa Lizano, when she began leaving her family’s wildlife sanctuary at night to rescue turtle eggs.
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/05/30/a-beach-unchanged |
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