Live Coverage: Inauguration of Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica

GC, your writing skills indicate you could use some more schooling. I assume you came to Costa Rica because Obama was re-elected. I suggest you find another country to spread your stupidity. Electing an educator in Costa Rica is the best move that I have seen…well, since the USA did it twice in the last 8 years. Educators care about constituents, business people only care about $$$. The PLN was a corrupt puppet of the corporate run GOP. Thank goodness both parties are dead in the water! Now we just need to squelch out the morons like you. Pura vida!

As Andy Rooney once said “you can’t teach a fencepost nothing” (I know, double negative, my bad–but Spanish is a lot about double negatives anyway) . Without sounding TOO conspiratorial, it is in authoritarian government’s advantage to keep its people dumb so they don’t know enough to question. What’s behind allowing high pesticide use, fluoride in salt, dangerous food additives — which studies have shown to diminish mental capacity of those consuming them? And then, when those who know better try to bring in foodstuffs which are safe to consume, the government tells us “no, you can’t have it — WE get to tell you what you can have and not have because only WE know.