by Rod Hughes
Everyone who sees a soccer match watches a different game.
This writer saw the Costa Rican All Stars tie 1-1 in an exhibition game with Haiti Wednesday evening at Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in Tibas and enjoyed it immensely. La Nacion sportswriter Gustavo Jiménez watched […]
by Rod Hughes
“Well, didn’t it rain, chillun?” goes the old black spiritual song and Costa Ricans have good reason to sing it.
Torrential rainfall has driven 1,600 persons from their homes into emergency shelters, damaged or destroyed 2,000 houses, knocked out 22 […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica will be seated on the United Nationas Security Council for the 2008-2009 period. This country attained the seat during the General Assembly session this morning when the Dominican Republic withdrew its candidacy.
During two previous votes, Costa Rica had a strong majority […]
by Rod Hughes
If you are one of the 60,000 people living in Tibas and Moravia, you may have noticed that your drinking water tastes like s–t. That is because it may be.
The morning La Nacion newspaper brought to those residents the happy news that the […]
by Rod Hughes
A young mother was killed Sunday when the car in which she was riding was hit by a landslide in the Acosta area. Her toddler daughter and others in the car managed to escape. Acosta is in the mountains south of San Jose.
Noilin […]
by Rod Hughes
It’s a dirty business but someone has to do it. The Sitca S.A. company will treat garbage from the Carbbean port city of Limon plus the towns of Siquirres, Guacimo and Matina, sorting out the organic stuff for processing into gas fuel for home use, recycling the rest […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s beloved and irritating Sele (All Star soccer team) nearly always starts the runup to the World Cup qualifications by wandering around the pitch like lost children. So when a Salvadoran team, much despised by Spanish-language press sportswriters, tied an apparently victorious Costa Rica at the last […]
by Rod Hughes
Abigail is a very lucky little girl to have been born in Costa Rica where the medical system could save her life. She was born June 11 at Tony Facio Hospital in Limon, taken by Caesarian after only 26 weeks of gestation, weighing all of 436 grams, only […]
by Rod Hughes
No matter what you have heard, it isn’t ALL about soccer in this country.
With a sterling performance on the waves yesterday, Costa Rica’s Federico Pilurzu made his way into the finals of the O’Neill Cold Water Classic and a […]
by Rod Hughes
Shanghai, China–Costa Rican kids are bringing home a load of medals from the Special Olympics for physically and mentally challenged children–67 of them. This is twice as many as they won four years ago in Ireland. They are due to arrive home Sunday.
The […]
