President Arias "Is
Getting Married"
What has been kept as a
"national secret" during
the past several weeks,
was made public
yesterday, the president
is tying the knot.
Casa Presidencial
confirmed yesterday that
president, Oscar Arias,
will be getting married.
The Prez began the year
with the public
announcement of his
relationship to Geovanna
Mendolia, a relationship
that ended in June.
The details of the bride
to be are not yet known
other than the hallway
gossip that she is a
foreigner.
In other gossip around
Casa Presidential is
that Kevin Casas, the
vice-president who
resigned following the
publication of a
scandalous email, will
be back in some
government post come
January.
Casas is Arias' pet and
is missed in the halls
of Casa Presidencial,
especially by the Prez,
who has been said to be
have a sad look in his
face in the corridors of
the government house and
also said to be the main
reason the Prez avoids
going to his office at
Casa Presidencial,
preferring to work from
home.
In other political news,
the leader of the
Partido Acción Ciudadana
(PAC), Ottón Solís, said
he fully supports the
Tratado de Libre
Comercio (TLC) - free
trade agreement with the
United States.
Although he would not
comment much on the
decision, during a press
conference Solís said he
could not wait for end
of the recess of the
Legislature to ratify
his support for the
trade deal and that if
had done so earlier, he
and not Arais, would be
president.
Solís said that come
next month he will ask
all the PAC legislators
to withdraw their
motions of protest and
pave the way for passing
of the trade agreement
well before the March 1
deadline.
The above news stories
are all par of the "día
de los innocentes" as
newspapers and websites
around the world fill
their pages with funny
and fictitious stories.
The tradition is the
Spanish equivalent of "april
fools' day" celebrated
in many countries.
December 28 is when the
Catholic church
commemorates the
assassination of all the
male babies: the
Innocent Saints, on
Herod's orders in a vain
attempt to kill the
child Jesus. Since the
Middle Ages, the
sacrilegious have
remembered this mournful
event with humour and
the jovial tradition has
continued.
In olden days, bakers
made salted tarts,
people nailed coins to
the floor, etc. The most
usual was to cut out a
paper puppet and stick
it to the back of a
passer-by, which they
would wear without
knowing and many would
make jokes in bad taste.
On TV and in the
newspapers in Costa Rica
and Latin America, bogus
stories, like the
stories above, will
appear. |
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