by Rod Hughes
The United States won its fourth Gold Cup soccer tourney yesterday in a bangup game of suspense and movement, defeating Mexico 2-1.
The organizers, CONCACAF, got what they wanted (some would say engineered) in Chicago—a packed stadium of rabid fans cheering two popular teams. The spectators got a fine game of thrills and—wonder of […]
by Rod Hughes
Something smells rotten at Soldiers Field in Chicago where a U.S. soccer team defeated a strong Canadian side, 2-1, yesterday. And the stench was overwhelming when Mexican referee Benito Armando Archundia anulled a clearly legitimate tying goal with a minute left to play.
We will say no more.
This means that the United States team […]
by Rod Hughes
The First Chamber of the Supreme Court has ruled that Hipermas, a superstore part of the international Walmart chain, must replace a customer’s car stolen from the lot Dec. 22. 2001. The landmark decision will put on notice other commercial parking facilities that have previously escaped scot-free from their responsibilty to actually protect […]
by Rod Hughes
Do you know of any other country where this would happen?
Yesterday, the floor session of congress was adjourned due to leaks in the roof during a thunderstorm. Water not only came in drops and dribbles from the ceiling but washed in rivlets down the walls of the august chamber and flooded some deputies’ […]
by Rod Hughes
Nidia Gonzalez, a congresswoman of the Citizen Action Party (PAC, in its Spanish acronym) has resigned her seat due to a conflict of interest and Ottón Solís, the party’s chief, named the party’s assistant general secretary, Beatriz Rodriguez, as her successor.
A year ago, Gonzalez co-sponsored a bill to continue permanently as law a […]
by Rod Hughes
The gasoline from the National Refinery (RECOPE, its Spanish acronym) you get the second half of next year will contain 7% alcohol fuel, RECOPE announced yesterday. The plan goes along with President Oscar Arias’s ecology program as well as reduces somewhat expenditures for imported fossil fuel.
But, at least initially, it will not reduce […]
By Katherine Stanley
Tico Times Staff | kstanley@ti…
It’s a job that would make most of us quake in our boots or call for our mommies – but not Jorge Woodbridge, apparently.
The Vice-Minister of Economy and Commerce has been assigned the task of getting rid of government institutions’ unnecessary trámites, or bureaucratic processes. Institutional Coordination Minister Marco […]
by Rod Hughes
According to the daily newspaper La Nación, Maureen de los Angeles Fernández of the western San Jose suburb of Pavas married a Cuban she had never met for a payment of ¢40,000 ($76.92 at today’s rate of exchange) because she needed the money and the Cuban needed the Costa Rican visa the marriage […]
by Rod Hughes
“The truth is out there,” promised the old TV series, X Files.
But finding out the whole truth about the 2,000 page Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is going to be a monumental task if the pro and con propaganda does not get a little more realistic, according to an exclusive in-depth story […]
by Rod Hughes
So you think San Jose is expensive…
Be happy you’re not in Sao Paolo or Rio, which rate the highest in cost of living in Latin America, according to the Mercer Human Resources Consulting firm, based in Britain.
Mercer’s research people found San Jose has the fifth lowest cost of living in Latin America. If […]
