by Rod Hughes
Earthquakes and a late awakening of citizens to the worth of their national monuments have claimed many historic buildings in this country. This is why far fewer historic structures remain standing here than in many Latin American countries. But one worth a visit is the police commissary in […]
by Rod Hughes
Holy Steinbrenner! Do you suppose that changing the field marshal of a sports club really helps a team? Maybe so…
San Carlos, playing on their home grass in Ciudad Quesada and sporting a new head coach, Juan Carlos Arguedas, dumped a lackluster Cartago yesterday […]
by Rod Hughes
A Uminer poll commissioned by the leading daily newspaper, La Nación, shows the “yes” vote for the Central american Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with a razor-thin lead in the run-up to the Oct. 7 referendum vote. But, taking into account normal error in the survey, […]
Note: We would like to apologize for the tardiness of this report, written much earlier but delayed by technical problems.
by Rod Hughes
Puntarenas fans are grieving because they thought their soccer team could. Coming fresh from a good shellacking of Saprissa in Costa Rica’s first Division Sunday, they were […]
by Rod Hughes
So half of the UNCAF soccer tournament semifinals will be fought out on Costa Rican soil, since Alajuela got by Real España of Honduras on goal kicks, 5-4 after ending regulations play in a 2-2 tie. The first semifinal game will be in Tibas’s Ricardo Saprissa Stadium Oct. 23, […]
by Rod Hughes
SANTA CRUZ, GUANACASTE–A leatherback turtle, one-and-a-half meters long, swam ashore Sept. 15 to lay her eggs on Junquillal Beach a full month before the average season starts. Usually, the season begins in the middle of October and ends in March of the following year. Last year for example, […]
by Rod Hughes
SAN JOSE–It’s all over but the automatic mandatory review of the trial record by an appellate court. Former public defender Luis Fernando Burgos, accused of strangling his wife and transporting her body to a remote dumping site, is guilty and the prosecution’s plea for a maximum sentence of […]
by Rod Hughes
While the judges deliberate in the Burgos murder trial, another, much longer, murder trial is winding up this week with final summations. In this one, Fr. Minor Calvo, a controversial, once-popular Catholic priest, and businessman Calixto Chaves are accused of hiring the gunmen who murdered […]
by Rod Hughes
President Oscar Arias has returned from his convalescence from an inflamed tendon to the campaign trail to promote a yes vote on the referendum to approve or deny participation in the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). In an exclusive interview published today in the daily La Nacion, […]
by Rod Hughes
Are you ready for this, friends? Puntarenas 4, Saprissa 1.
Last year’s champs appeared much like has-beens in the port city’s Lito Perez Stadium yesterday. It appeared at first like a normally hard-fought First Division game with Puntarenas’s Jose Garro opening scoring after […]
