TCRN STAFF: Mr. Opinion.
Nicaragua
Nicaragua continues it's attempts to annex a piece of Costa Rica. Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega is setting himself up as a puppet Hugo Chávez by running, unconstitutionally, for another term. Both of these dictators are friends and...
Featured Columnist - Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Autumn is at its peak and premium in northern California’s Central Valley. The yellows, oranges, and golds are resplendent in the parkland on a brilliant day, while the temperature is still mild enough for shirtsleeves.
Two...
Featured Columnist - Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, despite or because of our cynical age, retains a powerful hold on the post-modern mind. Nowhere is that fact more apparent than with Western notions of indigenous people and their relevance for the...
TCRN STAFF: Both sides should be careful, as they both have a lot to lose. Nicaragua already has a tainted recent history in terms of conflict, and this will certainly have an impact on Costa Rica’s primary economic...
Featured Columnist - Political Correspondent - Latin American Relations
Jennifer Mayer
San Jose is not known for the striking murals that grace the major cities of Europe or the United States. In fact, the vast majority of graffiti in San Jose...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Living in a cultural desert, as we do in the West, and as more and more people do in this vapid global society, what is our response? Is it to just "go with the flow" as...
TCRN STAFF:
The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN) - national weather service - said we saw the effects of Thomas that is now leaving the Caribbean, but soaked Costa Rica for almost three days straight, causing landslides and flooding in many...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
When asked where the capacity to be creative comes from, Eric Kandel, the Nobel Laureate neuroscientist, answers very assertively: “It comes from the brain!”
Statements such as this reflect a growing scientism in the Western world,...
UPDATE: Second day of National Emergency. Rains are expected to continue for 2 more days. A large flash flood completely destroyed the neighborhood Lourdes, located in Aserrí. Throughout the effected areas there are 23 dead and 10 are known...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Jane Goodall, the aging but still very active doyenne of chimpanzee studies in the Gombe Reserve, Tanzania, was interviewed recently on America’s premier TV magazine show, “60 Minutes.” Watch Video. In the most evocative moment of...
