by Rod Hughes
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, met yesterday in Managua and, predictably, the atmosphere around the two might have been apt for a snowball fight. As they walked together from the plane that brought Arias, the space between them was so wide TV cameras were forced to pan […]
by Rod Hughes
Oscar Lopez, the sole elected representative of the miniscule Accessability without Exclusion party (PASE, the acronym in Spanish), stridently accused three prestigious hospitals here of benefitting from the elimination of tariffs on human organs destined for transplants if the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega are due to have a private chat today in Managua and both countries are watching closely to see if the sparks fly as they have in recent months when they have exchanged barbs in separate statements.
New Costa Rican ambassador to Nicaragua, Antonio […]
by Rod Hughes
Well, the ravenous sports writers of this country cannot gripe about this: The Costa Rican under-17-year-old soccer All-Star team has advanced to the threshhold of the quarter finals in the world tourney for the age group being held in South Korea.
They did it with a 2-0 pasting Tuesday of the host South Koreans […]
by Rod Hughes
While it is wise to travel with a little extra cash, Costa Rican customs agents at Penas Blancas on the Nicaraguan border thought three Ticos in two semi-trailers were overdoing it.
Hidden in the trailers were an estimated $600,000 in bills.
Jailed on four months’ preventive detention were the two truck drivers and the owner […]
Here are the First Division standings as of Monday, Aug. 20. P stands for games played, W for games won, L for lost, T for tied and Pts. for points.
Group A
Team […]
by Rod Hughes
San Jose—The prosecution has rested its case and now it is the defense team’s turn in the murder trial of Luis Fernando Burgos, a case that has many of the elements that riveted public attention in the Scott Peterson trial in California. It involves a missing wife whose body is later found in […]
by Rod Hughes
Saprissa has joined Alajuela in the quarterfinals of the UNCAF Champion’s Cup soccer tourney, but on the strength of its 5-2 win in the opener. The Costa Rican champion lost yesterday to Once Municipal of El Salvador on the latter’s home field, 1-0.
This is the first time in 10 years Saprissa has lost […]
by Rod Hughes
What if they opened a landfill and nobody came?
In late June, the Costa Rican courts ordered the government to pay a construction company, Constructora Hernán Solís a hefty fine for a landfill the company had open between 1993 and 1995—29 months—without receiving so much as a single banana peel of garbage. The Esparza […]
by Rod Hughes
Alajuela’s soccer club coasted painlessly into the quarterfinals of the Uncaf Champion?s Cup yesterday, by knocking out Isidro Matapán of Salvador with a scoreless tie. The “manudos,” as the Alajuela players are nicknamed, fairly well suffocated their rivals in Jorge El Calero Suarez.
The Costa Rican team will meet Real España of Honduras in […]
