I admit it - I’m a junkie. A week ago Jorge re-scheduled an engagement we had tonight, partly becuase he assumed I was going to be checking out the TV for the results on our national elections. I said I had made my piece with the elections, assuming that there was no possible […]
Last year in Costa Rica inflation was almost 15%, the largest percentage of that due devaluation: a dollar was worth c457.58 when the year started and c495.65 when it ended. There’s an almost 10% drop just because we’re using a currency that allows our central bank to print out new Monopoly bills. Recent […]
And of course, the so-called Movimiento Libertario has voted in favor of taking money from the state. It had so far been called immoral by the official party line, but a few weeks ago Otto Guevara said that he was considering a suggestion made by some party members, who recommended taking money from the […]
According to the official line, Guillermo Malavassi quit the presidency of the Movimiento Libertario just two weeks after taking office because of a conflict of interest with the UACA, a private university where he’s the dean.
It’s been brought to my attention that on November 2004, Malavassi published an article in La Nación entitled Political Debt […]
Not that you’ll read about this on the Movimiento’s own site, but apparently Guillermo Malavassi Vargas, the new party president, has just resigned his position after not even two weeks on the job.
The official line so far is that there was a conflict of interest with his position as dean of a private university. […]
We have this concept here in Costa Rica called deuda política, which translates to political debt: basically, money that the government gives political parties after the election, split out proportionally according to the percentage of votes they get, so that they can pay up debts incurred during the campaign.
One of the first things that I […]
The Movimiento Libertario had a national assembly yesterday, and Otto Guevara’s faction has won (that link is in Spanish). Raúl Costales, the hard-working ideologically correct party secretary, is no longer with the group, although it is still unclear if he was removed or he resigned. Kattia Chavaría, the movimiento’s treasurer an […]
I first met Ernesto over 10 years ago, when he was running a tiny mexican food business out of an even tinier garage. He called the place Huaraches, after the mexican dish. It was impossible not to get caught up in his great attitude and fun demeanor - the fact that the food […]
Lo bueno de cuando las cosas pasan públicamente, es que uno no tiene que confiar en la palabra de una sola persona. O dos. O dos y varios periódicos. O…
Aparte de mis comentarios, el exhaustivo análisis de Jorge Codina y las noticias en varios medios, se abrió un grupo de discusión recientemente […]
Like it or not, a name is one of the first impression someone gets from you. As soon as they hear it, images spring into the mind’s eye, even before they know who you are. As if that wasn’t enough, every time your name is spoken that image is conjured again, reinforced in […]