Once again I draw inspiration from the letters to the editor sent to AM Costa Rica. Variations of these letters appear rather frequently on that site. Perhaps the editor feels it his duty to publish all opinion. Perhaps he likes that it’s free content for his web site. Probably both. In any case, the most
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In a way I suppose it’s all my fault. I was the one who told him about Costa Rica. He came down for a visit and within a year he was living here. Actually, it isn’t ALL my fault, but I did set the chain of events in motion. Here’s (part of) Dave’s story. I
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I sometimes like to make fun of AM Costa Rica, I can’t help myself. Today’s headline is a case in point: President immortalized on new postal emission Postal emission??? But still I read the site regularly. In the June 10th, 2011 edition they had a little article that nicely summarized the good things about Costa
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Let’s start with a statistic given by Sandra Piszk, Costa Rica’s Minister of Labor: [translation] “The country has about 300,000 kids who are neither studying nor working.” Now that wouldn’t be so bad in a country of 300 million. But we are talking about Costa Rica, with a population of a little less than 4.5
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Ah, Costa Rica, the land of volcanoes, rainforest, beaches, eternal Spring and whatnot. Too bad about the people that own/run it. I’m fast approaching the 7th anniversary of the day I first moved here. I like it here. For all its faults I still like living here. Having said that, I have come to the
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In less than a month two former presidents of Costa Rica were found guilty of corruption. On April 27, 2011, former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez was sentenced to five years prison from his involvement in a bribery scandal. He was found guilty of taking a half a million dollar bribe from the French
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