Congratulations to Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica’s first female president, elected with 46% of the votes cast, sixty years after women were first allowed to vote in Costa Rica. Ms Chinchilla was Oscar Arias’ Vice President and Minister of Justice. She pledges to put security at the top of her agenda. She also pledged to support [...]
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Inside the National Theater, Neoclassical Architecture
The National Theater located in the heart of San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital city is an architectural gem. It is a copy of the famous Paris Opera House. If you are traveling to Costa Rica on vacation and are in San Jose be sure and go see it or [...]
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I have heard many travelers to Costa Rica talk about traveling to Limon and saying, “My it is not at all an attractive town and located in such a beautiful coastline on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica with palm trees and warm Caribbean winds which blow each day. Limon is a port city and [...]
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“ART WASHES AWAY FROM THE SOUL THE DUST OF EVERYDAY LIFE.” Pablo Picasso
The new artist group has a name ” Conjunto De Artistas” and is the brainchild of Jan Yatsko. Jan and her husband have been living in Atenas for eleven years. She is an artist (oil painting, watercolors, and sketching-including art journals.)
Jan wrote the [...]
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WILL THE REAL ROSEMARY REIN PLEASE STAND UP?
Continuing my series on artist and writers in Costa Rica I would like to highlight Rosemary Rein.
Rosemary is a resident of Costa Rica, along with her husband Barry. Rosemary read a book about Costa Rica and told Barry, “We have to move to Costa Rica, so they followed [...]
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The Christmas season in Costa Rica is welcomed each year by the Entrada de Santos y Boyeros (the entrance of saints and oxcarts drivers) to the city of San Jose. Approximately two hundred colorful hand painted oxcarts with their bueyes (team of oxen) participate. Each oxcart carries a santo (saint) made of wood as a [...]
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Today October 12 is a Holiday in the US. It’s Columbus Day.
On September 8, 1502 Christopher Columbus arrived on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica and took refuge just off the coast near what is now the Port of Limon. Was he disappointed in what he found in Costa Rica?
The native Indians were friendly towards [...]
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A Plurp of Costa Rica’s History
Costa Rica today is a social democracy with presidential elections held every four years. The present constitution was adopted in 1949, and provides for a set of checks and balances. At that time the military was abolished and a civil police force was formed.
But has Costa Rica ever had [...]
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