<strong>by Rod Hughes</strong>
Want to call ahead for reservations in Panama as you drive south on the InterAmerican Highway from San Jose to Paso Canoas on the Costa Rica-Panama border? Better make your call before you leave San Jose, even if you have your cell phone with you.
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by Rod Hughes
The testimony of former Public Security Minister Fernando Berrocal before a special Legislative Assembly committee probing FARC penetration into the political culture has hardly produced the dramatic revellations lawmakers sought. But Berrocal apparently wanted to extend his 15 minutes of fame yesterday.
The former […]
by Rod Hughes
The value of the dollar against the colon continued its rise yesterday but the trading frenzy of Friday has calmed. Yesterday´s hike of 3.87 colones per dollar was only slightly higher than the Monday rise of 3.44 and much less than the sharp jump of 9.50 registered on […]
by Rod Hughes
Internet money speculators are playing hob with the value of the colon. Late last year, Costa Rica raised the value of its colon against the dollar and for a time only about 487 of the local currency was needed to buy a dollar. Last week, it went up […]
by Rod Hughes
It may not be any threat to Boeing yet, but a new consortium, Costa Rican Aerospace Alliance (Coraal), has signed a contract with Ad Astro Rockets to build a platform on which to test Dr. Franklin Chang’s plasma rocket engine, the daily La Nacion reported late last week.
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by Rod Hughes
We never thought we would ever see it, but Costa Rican companies are outsourcing in order to field their own brands even as the country woos foreign automotive parts firms to settle here. But the lure of cheap Asian labor is too good to resist.
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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.
I […]
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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