by Rod Hughes
Convicted confidence man Arnoldo RodrÃguez enjoyed his freedom as a fugitive for 25 years after a conviction in Boron, California, for defrauding a Salt Lake City, Utah, jeweler of $120,000. But Monday a Costa Rican judge ordered a year preventive detention on four local counts of–what else?–fraud.
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by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s number one prosecutor, the equivalent of the U.S. Attorney General, announced this week that he will try for another four-year term of office. Francisco Dall’Anese already has made his place in Costa Rican history as the man who indicted two expresidents, Rafael Angel Calderon and Miguel […]
by Rod Hughes
Remember the Egyptian businessman accused of dumping the excrament from his 2,000 dairy cows into the river from which two sizeable towns take their drinking water for the past three years? (See newsfeed #1384) Welll, it appears he wasn’t quite candid with the Costa Rican Immigration authorities when […]
by Rod Hughes
When the mighty Alajuela soccer juggernaut has trouble making its way to a victory over the Univesity of Costa Rica. things are misfiring badly. But, “twas so yesterday in a game so lackluster it deserved to be televised in black and white.
To get […]
by Rod Hughes
Everyone gripes about inflation in Costa Rica, but families are currently spending more proportionate income than they have in 10 years, thanks to a slowed inflation rate (partially fueled by a real estate boom that shows no sign of flagging.) The daily La Nacion reports that the retail […]
by Rod Hughes
If your taste runs to nature without glittering hotels, casinos or celebrity nightlife, La Cangreja National Park is for you. As profiled by a recent issue of The Tico Times, this is the nation’s newest national park, five years old with miles of well-marked hiking trails.
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by Rod Hughes
President Oscar Arias returned from his diplomatic trip to mainland China with his shopping bags bulging with cash for his country. Besides talking his hosts out of $20 million in immediate aid for victims of the disastrous September flooding, he received $27 million in longer-term projects.
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by Rod Hughes
Smile, evil-doers. You’re on candid camera!
Minister of Public Security Fernando Berrocal has announced an ambitious program to place 3,000 surveillance cameras in high-crime areas. The program will cost $18 million but Berrocal says, “This will place Costa Rica on the cutting edge […]
by Rod Hughes
They were all ready in the courtroom, the alleged victim of a nurse’s error in the administration of chemotherapy, the prosecutor, the defnse counsel, the judge, representatives of the Social Security (Caja) that administers public hospitals.. The summons had been served. […]
by Rod Hughes
The Alajuela defense left the door open just a mere crack and that was enough to let one of the slipperiest strikers around, Alonso El Mariachi Solis, through late in the first half to a winning goal at Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in Tibas. That was enough in this […]
