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Obras del Espíritu Santo is Working to Prevent Children from Entering Life of CrimeSAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica – Raúl, 12, is homeless.He doesn’t know why his parents are incarcerated.His brother, Jeffrey, 15, is a drug dealer.But Raúl doesn’t want...

The cabin is at a mile elevation (about 1600 meters) in a heavily logged and developed section of the central Sierra Nevada. John Muir called the Sierras “The Range of Light,” and despite the stumps and slash in the...

As Costa Rica celebrates 190 years of independence on September 15th, it’s worth reflecting that in one of the most historically violent regions in the world, this country has had no army since 1948. If even a few other...

“For everybody knows or should knowThat if nothing drastic is doneAeroplane and Zeppelin will come out,Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls inUntil the town is beaten flat.”Yeats, Lapis LazuliIt has been ten years since the fateful events of 9.11. Fateful...

Official Data from the Immigration Office analyzed by ICT• International arrivals represent a growth of 9.2%For the second time in history, Costa Rica regained its annual visitation record of two million tourists in 2010, according to data from the...

SAT, High Technology Sourcing Company, designed and developed the first flat computer Tablet designed in Guatemala, which will compete against the Galaxy, the Apple’s iPhone and against Samsung.Guatemalan engineers designed the tablet, which is called CyberTech Pad CT 8003,...

The canyon fans out before me, and the gorge slices through the rocks below. Though I’m only a ten minute drive plus a ten minute walk from town, there isn’t another person in sight for miles.I cross three streamlets...

Recently I came upon the construction of a bicycle course adjacent to the creek that runs along the edge of town, behind the sycamore where I often take my sittings. When I arrived that morning, a group of boys...

In my last column I was singing the praises of Costa Rica’s extensive bus system, pointing out the significant amount of money my husband Layne and I save by having no car. For the most part, the buses here...

Living in the emergent global society, one of the questions that intrigues me is whether the lifeless consumeristic culture, which has overwhelmed people in America and generated a very high percentage of dead souls, has become virtually uniform. If...