“Costa Rica,” said Dr. Rodrigo Gamez Lobo, longtime President of INBio (National Biodiversity Institute) “is complex enough to be interesting, and small enough to be manageable.” Thanks to modern technology, I had a tremendously informative conversation with Dr. Gamez between his office in Costa Rica and my home in California. Costa Rica is one of [...]
CURITIBA, Brazil – Vera wanted to sing, but she lost her breath every time she tried to raise her voice. As one of the 24 inmates in the Águia News Choir, at the Women’s Work Release Center (CRAF) in Curitiba, Paraná, it took a month of music for her to give up a 17-year addiction [...]
Respiratory ailments can range in severity from mildly annoying to fatal, and can affect all ages, from infants to the elderly. Several symptoms are common for acute respiratory ailments, including fever, headache, fatigue, weakness, stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat, chest discomfort and cough. Chronic respiratory ailments are also common, such as asthma, allergies and chronic [...]
Maracaibo, Venezuela – Coromoto Torres can’t wait for her first trip overseas. Her bags are packed, her airline tickets are purchased and several years of savings have given her a purse full of bolívares. All her passport needs is a departure stamp. But she can’t take her first trip outside South America because she doesn’t [...]
Costa Rica is the best country brand in Latin America, says the seventh annual edition of the Country Brand Index (CBI), the global study of country brand strength by Future Brand, published last November 11th. The CBI analyzes countries around the world in five main dimensions: Value System, Quality of Life, Good for Business, Heritage [...]
ARIES March 21 – April 20 Romance and pleasure (erotic and otherwise) are your focus this week. You enjoy the risks of falling in and out of love which could happen during the next seven days. You need to keep physically active, though, in order to keep a positive energy flow. The big challenge is to [...]
If there’s a more apt metaphor for the messy end of the Age of Oil, I haven’t heard it. A tanker truck loaded with driveway sealant burst a valve and leaked the gooey gunge along a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike the day before Thanksgiving. A couple hundred cars “were disabled when the [...]
The Centre for Culture and Tranference of Technology, part of the Communications Bureau at the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), is presenting an expo exhibiting technological creations from the 1950′s, that were used by ICE. The name of the exhibit is “Living Collections”, and presents the identity of the ICE through objects and robots built [...]
The builder La Laguna working hand in hand with the Teran family in May of 2004, gave shape to what is now the only golf course to the east of San Jose, the Monteran Golf Course. The Club House opened in June 2007, the Driving Range in February 2008 and in May of 2008 was [...]
If I needed any reminder why it’s important for retirees to learn Spanish, today was an object lesson: trying to communicate by phone with medical personnel to request results of some routine lab work be emailed to me. Not only is it difficult to understand Spanish at the fast pace most Ticos speak but on [...]
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