Stories about Costa Rica from March, 2007
Chile, Costa Rica: “Un Computador por Niño”
Ricardo Carreón, General Manager of Intel for Latin America, describes a pilot test of Classmate PC (“laptop for kids in emerging markets”) that he attended in Costa Rica with Intel CEO Craig R. Barret. On a related note, Carreón points us to a collection of YouTube videos about Chile's “Un...
Costa Rica: Cafta, Point of Discord
Roy Rojas on the intense protests against the Central American Free Trade Agreement in Costa Rica: “what has happened in countries that have ratified the agreement, for example Nicaragua and El Salvador, is that exports to the US have gone up significantly and there has been no loss of employment...
Costa Rica: Tico Tarzan video
Uri Ridelman shares a video of Gilberto Shedden Graham, better known in Costa Rica as “Tico Tarzan”, and his domesticated crocodile, Pocho.
The Costa Rican media ignored the Anti-CAFTA march
El Sr. Masís de Moravia. by Juliaa (The sign reads “If CAFTA passes we'll be slaves like this donkey.”) Cristian Cambronero from Fusil de Chispas [es] sums up the blogger perspective on the Costa Rica Anti-Cafta marches in his February 28th post. The media refused to report on the event,...
Costa Rica: How to Brew Coffee
Uri Ridelman of Tico Food on “how to brew a cup of coffee the traditional Costa Rican way.