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Rainy Season Begins As Predicted

The rainy season arrived on Friday as predicted for the Central Valley and the Central Pacific, according to Max Mena of the nstituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN) - national weather service. The IMN says that a low pressure system over the Central Valley yesterday morning is a clear indicator of the start of the rainy season that will last through November.     Readmore

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Newest Hospital Opens in Costa Rica's South Pacific

The ultra-modern 85,000 square foot Hospital De Osa located in the town of Cortez, in Puntarenas is now open. The hospital is the newest in Costa Rica and features multiple treatment facilities including a state of the art emergency room, a pediatrics wing, a neurology center and an obstetrics and gynecology center.     Readmore

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Costa Rica To Import 162.000 Tons Of Rice

The government of Costa Rica has authorized the importation of 162.000 metric tons of rice free of duties for the balance of this year and next. The news came from a government decree published in La Gaceta signed by president Oscar Arias, foreign trade minister, Marco Vinicio Ruiz, economy minister, Marco Vargas, and agriculture minister, Javier Flores.     Readmore

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3G is OK

Following delays resulting from problems with the contract, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), yesterday got the "visto bueno" (approval) from the Contraloría General de la República - Comptroller's office - to spend us$225.000.000 dollars to purchase 1.5 million 3G cellular lines. ICE can now continue with the bidding process where eight supplies are vying for the contract to install the next generation cellular network to meet the country's demands. 3G allows…     Readmore

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Costa Rica Suspends Legal Cooperation With US

Costa Rica has suspended legal cooperation with the United States and filed a diplomatic protest over what it called the "disrespectful" treatment of its Fiscal General, Francisco Dall'Anese, at the Miami International Airport. Dall'Anese travelled to Miami in Wednesday to meet his US counterpart, Michael Mujasey, and to attend a court hearing involving the former vice-president of Alcatel in Costa Rica, Christian Sapsizian, who is believed to be a key witness in the ICE-Alcatel…     Readmore

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What the heck?

This photo courtesy of Insidecostarica.com is worthy of a place in our "what the heck were they thinking" department. This intersection is located in San Antonio de Belen on the road that goes from San Antonio to the Ojo de Agua, in front of the shopping mall. But look closely and ask yourself, who has the right of way? With an intersection filled to the brim with "ceda" or "yield" signs who goes when? If driving around Costa Rica isn't confusing…     Readmore

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Semana Santa Exodus Begins

Saturday, 8 March 2008

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The exodus to the beach, resorts and Nicaragua is on as Semana Santa gets underway and vacationers leave the city, overloading the bus system and highways. The bus terminals...

Earthquakes felt today

Tuesday, 23 October 2007

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Today 56km off the Pacific coast two earthquakes were felt throughout the region today.  Both within .5km of each other and one at 3:41pm measuring 4.7 and the other at...

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Saprissa, Pachuca have final say

Sunday, 4 May 2008

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Wednesday was a rough night for Major League Soccer's representatives as DC United and Houston Dynamo lost out on aggregate to Pachuca of Mexico and Costa Rica's Deportivo Saprissa...

Saprissa drops another match

Thursday, 17 April 2008

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 by Rod Hughes Saprissa is in freefall in the First Division soccer championship and even some sportswriters are panicked. The headline on the back cover of the paper La...

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Oct 26 2007
The Punishment
Friday, 26 October 2007

THE PUNISHMENT -- by Jack Ewing


The incident took place so long ago that Daniel Valverde doesn't remember for sure if it was Alvaro Mesa who felled the last manú negro tree on Hacienda Baru, but he was definitely the one who sent the workers to cut it into logs and split the logs into posts. Some people say that what happened that day was Alvaro’s punishment for cutting down the last manú negro on Hacienda Barú. Others say it was the curse of an Indian shaman whose tomb Alvaro had opened. Regardless of why it happened, it was the worst experience of his entire live.


The year was 1971. Daniel Valverde, Nato and Challo Campos and Arcele Arroyo followed Alvaro Mesa to the fallen tree, deep in the rainforest of the upper portions of the hacienda. On the hike up, Alvaro showed the men a  pre-Colombian cemetery where he claimed to have found gold in one of the tombs. When they reached the fallen manú negro, Alvaro left instructions with Daniel and Arcele and took Nato and Challo with him to blaze the trail they would use to carry the posts out on their shoulders.

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Official language: Spanish
Capital: San José
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