It isn’t hard to do. It may not be a good idea, but it isn’t hard to do. People who live in the San Jose area have heard the names. Barrio Cuba. Leon XIII. Los Guido. Pavas. The list could go on. I have come to know some people who live in some of these
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I arrived at Parque Central just a little after 10 am, the scheduled start of the Marcha de las Putas (Slut Walk) demonstration. What the heck, these are Ticos and Ticas, being a little late was like being early, Tico time. Still, there were already a fair number of people there, and the protest would
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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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It’s been a wet year, and the recent set of storms delivered the coup de grace, leaving death and devastation in its wake. I had the misfortune to have been involved in a flood a little over 10 years ago, and was forced to stay in a shelter (a nice one due to the fact
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