by Rod Hughes
You remember when we said that the Guanacaste soccer team from Nicoya had a leg up on winning the Second Division and a chance to get back up to playing with the big boys in the First Division by virtue of their 2-0 shutout of the University of Costa Rica 11?
Well, they slipped!
UCR […]
by Rod Hughes
Acosta, a scenic mountainous region south of the capital populated by small farmers, provides much of the produce in the metropolitan farmers’ markets. Although its citrus fruits, bananas and plantains are of high quality, it is not particularly famous even in Costa Rica and certainly not for gourmet coffee, pretty much the domain […]
by Rod Hughes
The daily La Nacion today reported more bad news about the Costa Rican Electrical Institute (ICE) but it was not as bad as it might have been. The bad: The new, three-month-old Cariblanca hydroelectric generation plant at Sarapiquí is out of operation indefinitely, only 19 days after President Oscar Arias inaugurated it.
But the […]
