Stories about Costa Rica from January, 2006
Caribbean: BlogHer's site launches
BlogHer's new “internationalized” site is now online, with Karen Walrond covering Latin America and the Caribbean.
Caribbean: The Taíno & Catholicism
Indigenous issues blog Voice of the Taino people links to an article entitled “Christianity, Capitalism, Corporations, and the Myth of Dominion”, noting that the “Roman” Catholic Church still has not...
Costa Rica: Revolutionary Calendar
Batichangó.com has designed a 2006 calendar which is free to download and “100% revolutionary.”
Costa Rica: Sugar Cane Energy
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) is looking into sugar cane waste as a source of renewable energy says Bob Glass.
Costa Rica: Elections Site
JD Clarke has launched a website dedicated to the 2006 presidential elections in Costa Rica called elecciones2006.com (ES). On its front page is an announcement which seeks volunteer photographers, pundits,...
Costa Rica: Broadband (Im)penetration
Bob Glass writes that for every 1,000 Costa Rican inhabitants, there are only 10 high speed connections, compared to South Korea's 248 or even Chile's 59.
Costa Rica: Arias Rules Out Presidential Debate
Costa Rica Blogs says Nobel Peace Prize winner, Oscar Arias has ruled out all possibilities of a debate between front-runners.
Blogging in Exile
The following article was originally written in Spanish by Sebastian Delmont, a Venezuelan native who now lives and blogs in New York City. It was published in the first (and...
Costa Rica: International Observers Called to Elections
Costa Rica Blogs says that 110 – 120 international observers will be on hand during the February 5th elections.
