The plans for the new road from San José to Cartago are not finalized but there is an estimated toll cost of ₡1,030, compared to the current single toll collection…

This column by Martin LeFevre was written shortly before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. We feel it is fitting to re-run it at this moment. Democracy works, in…

The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, since to China, and many people outside China, China now is the context of the international (dis)order. As true as that may be, no…

Exportation from Costa Rica, and most countries, took a huge hit in 2020 due to the pandemic. Procomer is thinking ahead to 2021 and making plans to strengthen trade, especially…

11,700 vaccines against covid-19 are entering Costa Rica this week, on top of the 9,750 doses that arrived on December 23rd. The vaccination is made by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer…

Is human ingenuity sufficient to meet the crisis of climate change and species extinction, or will only a radical change in human consciousness itself, beginning within the individual, be adequate?…

Before I talk about the Werewolf of Bettembourg, let me tell you about the White Wolf of Luxembourg.  During my time with the US Army, I took a nice R&R…

“We are waiting…for change, for the future, for news, for tenderness, for each other, for patience to wait some more.” That pitiably truthful vicious circle, in the [Philosopher’s] “Stone” of…