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Monthly Archives: October, 2007

200 Repeat Offenders Roaming the Streets

According to Public Security Ministry reports, there are some 200 known repeat offenders of assaults and thefts walking on the streets of San José....

OIJ Director Desperate for More Resources

As a green young investigator, Jorge Rojas and fellow agents used to sit in the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) headquarters in San José, waiting...

More Tourists Coming for Major Surgery

He looked nervous, this rangy, six-foot one Gringo with the towhead and pencil mustache. His Army fatigue shorts revealed an 8-inch U-shaped scar just under...

Sculptor Finds Inspiration in Female And Serpentine Forms

He’s caked in white powder, but he keeps on grinding. With his trembling arthritic fingers, he thrusts his chisel into the marble again and...

Henrietta Boggs, First Lady of the Revolution

The Alabama woman who married a revolutionary President of Costa Rica speaks about the country’s past and future.   MONTGOMERY, Alabama – All roads led to...

Xandari by the Pacific: Luxury and Tranquility in Esterillos Este

Believe it or not, it’s still possible to disappear on a quiet, deserted beach just a few hours from San José. Sandwiched between Jacó’s...

Bluefields Lawmaker Gives Voice to Creole Population

MANAGUA – Congressman Standford Cash doesn’t have the pretentious air about him that is typical of many National Assembly members. When other lawmakers address the...

Activists Mobilize Against Abortion Ban

MANAGUA – As nervous police officers looked on, dozens of abortion-rights activists shut down the entrance to the nation’s Supreme Court last Friday in...

U.N. Speech Gets Chilly Response

MANAGUA – President Daniel Ortega’s fiery speech to the 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations, in which he excoriated the imperialist project of...

Abortion Activists Take Protest to Church

After months of the Catholic Church taking its anti-abortion protests to the streets, the streets returned the favor Sept. 30 when a group of...

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