I got a divorce almost four years ago. Recently my ex-wife contacted me via IM and mentioned that she was moving to Panamá. A few years ago she had mentioned in passing that she had a spot of trouble getting a civil status certification - I didn’t think of it at the […]
Here’s a brilliant conference by Hans Rosling on how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. Besides being the most sui generis and amusing talk on economics I’ve ever seen, he presents viscerally the difference an extra $10 per day on income can have in the quality of life.
I was surprised that he […]
It’s official. Costa Rica’s educational system has gone down the drain.
I stopped by Torneca today to buy six screws of a specific size. As soon as I arrive at the cashier, their system goes down. A flustered lady singals a bored-looking fellow and asks him to write me a manual bill for […]
I was reading the news today about Costa Rican congresswoman Evita Arguedas, who was elected for the increasingly more inappropriately-named Movimiento Libertario. It seems she’s been ostracized by party leadership because she voted against what they thought. Now, I’m no fan of Evita, but I still think the whole business is hilarious. […]
I’ve heard many complaints regarding CAFTA, and most of them boil down to the same issue: foreign corporations are bigger, and they’ll swallow our poor competitors whole. People with this argument often use words indicating size, implying that by girth alone these behemoths will squash our tiny industry.
What most of these people actually […]
For those of you who read Spanish, there’s a good opinion article published by a member of PAC evaluating the current Movimiento Libertario (almost as aptly named as Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker Trilogy).
El señor Raúl Costales predijo la extinción del Movimiento Libertario como movimiento ideológico si quebraban con sus principios fundamentales al […]
We’re looking to hire another ASP.Net / C# developer for a long-term project. As I had mentioned before, we’re small team and want to keep growing by adding dedicated, team-oriented people with a sense of humor.
You must have experience with C#, Javascript, DHTML and XSLT 1.0 to create modular and reusable components. Familiarity with […]
For more on how the election day really was, you should go check out Jacqueline’s one-day travelogue Election Day in San José, Costa Rica. Jacqueline, a self-declared election nerd, even describes how our election works. Well worth read.
On a more personal note, Jorge has a great article called “…and they didn’t even get the […]
I’ve started this post many times. Once I begun by making a point about how my dad saw things. Once I decided to start with an example of how public opinion is turning again in favor of Rafael Ángel Calderón and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, both up until recently in prison and undergoing a […]
It’s 11:26 p.m., and with 57.7% of the voting tables accounted for the numbers so far are:
Oscar Arias: 40.8%
Ottón Solís: 40.3%
Otto Guevara: 8.2%
Guevara is exactly on the range that Borges and Asociados predicted he would get (as opposed to the over 15% that the ML was getting before they decided to dump the principles).
The difference […]