Police reportedly called the girl’s parents and issued a public call for students to avoid anything handed to them in the street (like strange frozen things in plastic bags).
In a reminder that Costa Rica’s Catholic Church is still woefully stuck in the past, one of its highest leaders on Sunday used the annual pilgrimage to Cartago, which draws an estimated 2 million people each year, to speak out against legalizing gay civil unions and in vitro fertilization.
Avraham Kotlitzky has been working for the last eight years to recreate a legendary hot springs resort on a hill just south of the city. The resort was Costa Rica’s biggest tourist attraction in the 1880s and, legend has it, the especially hot waters can cure all kinds of ails, from psoriasis to indigestion.
The legendary springs fell into disuse and ended up lost, forgotten and buried in a garbage dump for decades — until an Israeli Indiana Jones named Avraham Kotlitzky tracked them down here eight years ago, moved garbage and weeds aside, and thrust his hand into a hot spring.
