Comments on: Government demands answers from US over program to stir Cuban unrest from Costa Rica

By: Luis Diego Campos

Luis Diego Campos — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:57:00 +0000

Soon the chinesse will open up a chinesse restaurant on the corner near the US ambasy here in ticoland and will spy the shit out of the gringos,but I dont personally think they will get useful info other than expat ssn,list of fugitive names,list of hookers names and phone numbers that the US embassy staff usually called to fulfilled their sexual animal….

By: Daffy

Daffy — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:29:00 +0000

Costa Rica has caught the US embassy engaging in espionage and terrorism using Costa Rica as a base of operation.

The Costa Rica government has no balls.

They need to kick out the US ambassador and close the US embassy. The USA is putting Costa Rica at risk.

I say kick out the US ambassador or get a few billion from the USA to pay for the problems they cause.

By: Frank Castle

Frank Castle — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:16:00 +0000

Excuse me, I’m not a FoxNews watcher, Mr. Broadbrush. Having a U.S. ambassador being killed in a consulate is not a minor issue and is made worse when the admistration lied about it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:19:00 +0000

Nicaragua has nothing military? Are you smoking piedras again Ben Dover? Ever heard of Russia? You twit, I’m putting your silly ass on “ignore.” Good luck with your militia. I hope not too many of you are killed by friendly fire from your “not (just) hand guns” Suerte clown. Oh by the way, Ben, I’m guessing Fernando Gerdano with the Imperial logo is not a Gringo. But you are still a clown.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:04:00 +0000

Ben Dover: Try proofreading some of this crap! Perhaps with a little more time and effort, you could make it semi-comprehensible, but I doubt it.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 04:29:00 +0000

Its time to say that everyone really knows that Right sided goverments have hurt more poor people that left sided goverments. Right sided goverment hate poor and hate poor countries thats a fact. Right Side goverments sell everything and sortly after they go bust. Its time that everyone know its not bad to eat and have a small houses and not to be super rich. The US form of getting rich is joke for most US citizens. How many home foreclosed in 2008 30 millon+ because everyone was told buy a house and your house is going to go up in price. US economy is a false economy its fake. US goverment bails out banks but not the average person during the crises in 2008. Lets help the poor and not focus on making a few rich and more richer. PLN have hurt CR with Cafta and selling what little Costa Rica has left. Help the small farmers, Help small business, Hire local people. Buy Local. Build small house for families not large house that only 2 people live in.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 03:30:00 +0000

There is group of 300 guys and gals that train every other week and are well armed they have brought in help to train. This group has been talked about a little in media but nobody has gone and seen them to much. The group is growing very fast and everyone own there AR15 i understand. I live between Cartago and Central Valley. Its very farming type area and most of the farmers are very diffrent than most people in CR. In my area most people grow there own food and sell at local markets. I was shocked when i went to a gun range in Costa Rica and saw my Farming buddies with AR15 and Good gear. Go to a gun range hear you might be surprised. The PLN play this Nicaragua thing up to much. Nicaragua says something and PLN get upset. Words are just words they stir up uneducated emotion. Every country needs another to hate.Costa Rica country to hate is Nicaragua, Just like US hate Arab nations then somebody else. Domincan´s hate Haiti. Every Political systen needs a enemy. Maybe we can sit and have beer one day. Your thoughts are good.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 03:14:00 +0000

Your right Rich get Rich and the rest get the rest meaning poor get poor. I love the fact that people think owning a car and a nice home is the most important thing it is not. If you grow your own food and can live on your own terms and your better off.

By: expatin paradise

expatin paradise — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 02:40:00 +0000

I agree with you completely about the Monroe doctrine, CAFTA, and foreign powers who try to control the affairs of smaller countries. I certainly did not mean to suggest that I endorse these attitudes, only that they exist – the US is this hemisphere’s bully. The Bush administration coerced the Arias administration to go all out for CAFTA, threatening to cut off trade if CR didn’t sign on. Such extortion is unconscionable but commonplace. Now, the US is pushing for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, another agreement designed to benefit nobody other than big corporations.

I am surprised at your statements about Costa Rica’s readiness in case of invasion and Nicaragua’s lack of forces. I had read recently of militia activity, but thought that it was BS. I am also surprised to know that so many Costa Ricans are so well armed – the impression that one gets is that only the criminal sector (per many Ticos, the Nicaraguans) is armed. I hope that you’re right, but wonder why so many Costa Ricans are so paranoid about Nicaragua if you are right. Of course, Nicaragua has close and well-armed allies in Venezuela and Cuba. I would hope that Panama would rush to Costa Rica’s aid, but I would be very surprised to see Panama become involved if the US opposed their intervention.

I don’t want to cause you to reveal any more personal information than you are comfortable revealing, but I wonder if your area is better armed than the Greater Metropolitan Area or the central valley. If you don’t mind saying, in what part of Costa Rica are you located?

By: expatin paradise

expatin paradise — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 02:00:00 +0000

I see your point – certainly investment by foreigners whose standards of living have driven up property values. On the flip side, for every gringo who paid high prices for real estate here, some Costa Rican landowner got a good payoff. Prices go up in response to the increased demand presented by foreigners, but it is the same aristocratic wealthy and powerful Costa Rican families who have always exploited the Tico working class who are asking and getting those prices.

I agree that those who can afford to do so should contribute to the welfare of others who are less fortunate here, and I find it ludicrous that Gringos here bitch about the taxes. It sounds as if you have done well financially and have spread the wealth. It also sounds as if you have befriended some expats who are not typical of most I run into here, some I wouldn’t mind having as friends. As for those who build expensive vacation homes that stand vacant, I hope that they at least pay their luxury-home tax and employ Tico caretakers (and pay the caja and other appropriate taxes) to protect their real estate.

The problem here, in the US, and about everywhere else worldwide is that a very few people have most of the wealth and live off the misery of the rest of us, and the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us is widening. In the US, the Wal-mart heirs alone hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in the US. I’m sure that,if it were possible to lift the veil on who owns what in Costa Rica, we would learn that the same division exists here, and that it might be even more extreme. Of course, the difference in this regard between the US and Latin America is that here this dynamic has existed since the Spanish first arrived. I believe that this is one reason that working-class Ticos have such a reputation for complacency and patience – they are accustomed to accepting whatever the powerful allow them.