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San Jose, Costa Rica
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Happy Costa Rican Mother’s Day
The streets filled with flowers, the supermarkets with chocolates, and the home appliance stores with SALE signs that tempted passersby as Costa Rican searched for a way to thank their madres (mothers) this last Saturday- Costa Rica’s Mother’s Day.
Though the date may sound off the mothers of other countries (most, including the United States, [...]
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Train to Heredia
Last week, on August 10, the streets of San José tremble under a new giant traveling across the city, making way trough the traffic of jammed streets, parting ways with old means of public transportation. Pedestrians wave and cars stopped as the first Apolo train departed at 5:30 a.m. from Estación del Pacífico, heading to [...]
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One drop of niceness: ID for ticket price is now a reality for the Elderly.
While some bus companies had begun using the electronic ID check devise to replace the transportation cost for the aged citizens it had not become fully a reality just until now. The CCSS has stopped the issuing of tickets and discounts destined to the elderly in view of complications the process raises in administration burdens [...]
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MICHELETTI, ARIAS AND ZELAYA: IN THE MIDDLE OF A PUBLICITY STUNT.
One month ago, as announced by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the president of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias Sánchez, was appointed as a mediator in a dialogue between the interim de facto President of Honduras Roberto Micheletti and the deposed Honduran president, removed form the power by what most of the international [...]
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ELECTIONS AND TRIALS: A THIN LINE BETWEEN BECOMING A PRESIDENT AND A BECOMING A CONVICT.
Two weeks ago, Juan Carlos Cubillo’s voice, one of the attorneys for the Ministerio Público, was heard through the courtroom as his words were delivered toward former president and current candidate representing Partido Unidad Social Cristiana for the 2010 presidential elections, Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, at the final statements in the long awaited sentence to [...]
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