May 12, 2008
I went for a swim in the pool yesterday, after filling and vacuuming. I think I’ll swim every day, whether I want to or not, just because of all the work I had to put into it.
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by Rod Hughes
Somebody should tell the Brujas soccer team that having magic is important but you’ve got to keep it up. (Brujas means “witches” in Spanish and is named after Escazu, the “city of witches” and the seat of this club’s franchise. A scrapping University of Costa Rica side gave […]
by Rod Hughes
Former public security minister Fernando Berrocal stuck to his guns in a hard-hitting report to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, presenting 36 pages of testimony that declared the deep penetration of the Colombian FARC guerrilla-terrorist-narcotics trafficking organization deep into Costa Rica. But lawmakers are still waiting for concrete evidence, […]
by Rod Hughes
Only two days after President Oscar Arias told Latin American nations of his plan to boost aid to farmers in the face of a worsening world food crisis, the government announced that it would give 50,000 colones per month to the most poverty-stricken women in the country.
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by Rod Hughes
MANAGUA, Nicaragua– President Oscar Arias pledged his government to spend $70 million in agricultural stimulus in the face of the worsening world food price crisis. He told the summit of Latin American respresentatives that he would present his plan to Costa Rican Legislative Assembly within the next few […]
By Rod Hughes
And other soccer tales. Two Alajuela stars spilled the beans on the Channel 7 TV sports section of the news program Telenoticias: Santos paid five million colones to the Alajuela club to beat Cartago in the final game of the regular season. They did handily, 2-0. For Santos, […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rican Olympic qualifier Mario Montoya from the San Jose suburb of Uruca began swimming young in order to conquer his asthma. But the treatment has led him to be only the fifth qualifier so far for the Costa Rican Olympic team
The 18-year-old […]
by Rod Hughes
It is a sign of the Arias Administration’s lukewarm relations with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that the government is treating an offer of $100 million in economic aid as if it were a Trojan horse. But the most enthusiasm Costa Rican ambassador to Nicaragua Antonio Tacsan will allow […]
by Rod Hughes
Fact check: Presidents, when reviewing past accomplishments, tend to paint with a wide, rosy brush. But many times the press picks up a gilded lily but this time it was the Comptroller General’s Office that blew the whistle on one statement of President Oscar Arias’s State of the […]
by Rod Hughes
Apparently, Mother Nature is throwing curves at Costa Rican meteorologists. Weathermen predicted that rains would begin earlier this year, in April instead of May. And they did, for about three or four days in mid-April. Then the sun came out and stayed out.
The […]
