I am speaking of Costa Rican Chief Exec, Oscar Arias, who actually is in New York, not Washington, to participate in the summit on world climate change and today, a U.N. meeting on nuclear arms proliferation chaired by none other than Obama himself. But being a sucker for “punnish” and sometimes “overly cute” titles to […]
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Success in business can be a very elusive thing. I was thinking about that the other day and I came up with the following definition: Success in business is when you develop an idea that satisfies a need in a unique way and then you stick with it until it works, i.e., accomplishes your goals […]
I am a little confused about this whole mess concerning Roberto Dobles, who just stepped down as the head of MINAET, Costa Rica’s Environment, Energy and Telecommunications Ministry. He is also a second-cousin to Costa Rica’s President, Oscar Arias. Okay according to reports in La Nación and The Tico Times, Dobles and his family are […]
The great American “blame game” is in full force these days. Poor Obama. Do you think he really knew the mess he was getting himself into? Living in a country like Costa Rica it is a little hard to fathom executives being paid $1 to $4 million dollar bonuses. I mean the entire tourism industry […]
Well wouldn’t you know it, after a week of stock market gains everyone is smiling and talking about the recovery being underway. But wait, aren’t those the same people that were just last week blaming the stock market plunge into oblivion on Obama’s stimulus plan? Does Bush now get the credit for the recovery since the plan […]
I remember a few years ago after a quarrel with my then girlfriend I jumped into the car and drove off into the mountains towards Vara Blanca. This is a place I liked to go to get away from it all and on this particular day that is exactly what my goal was. I drove […]
Costa Rica is virtually a “land-bridge” formed hundreds of millions of years ago by the separation of the great land mass that now forms the continents of South America and Africa. It is a country of many fault lines and is dotted with active volcanoes. So sure it is going to be a place where occasionally the earth does move […]
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