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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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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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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Way back in 1971, the President of the United States, one Richard Milhous Nixon, declared ‘war on drugs.’ By doing a little math in my head, that was a shade under 40 years ago. A 40 year war is better than a 100 year war. I guess. Since 1980 (I’m giving the war a chance!)
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Early on in my wanderings through downtown San Jose, I stumbled upon Pawn Shop Row (my term, feel free to use it). The general area is around Calle 12 between Avenues 1 and 3, at least I think it is. Naturally there are no street signs. I just know how to get there from my
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