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Eh, that sort of thing happens all the time. Heck, the US was trying it with TikTok. As long as the Chinese company got fair value, it doesn't bother me. You're not wrong that it's extortion, but there are thousands of worse problems.Panama forced the Chinese company to sell because of pressure from the US.
Don't know if it was a fair price or not. Still extortion.
Takes the leg out of one of his excuses. Maybe he'll come up with another excuse.
Shoot I didn't see this when you first posted. Haven't been up there for a while. Think they have extended the paved portion but not completely. Great place to visit for a weekend.Hey @CRHeel94 -- do you know if the road to Monteverde is still a rough ride or if they have improved it. When I was there some years ago the big discussion among locals that I talked with and (overheard) were the pros and cons of making it easier to get there. I'm curious and literally asking for a friend.
Shoot I didn't see this when you first posted. Haven't been up there for a while. Think they have extended the paved portion but not completely. Great place to visit for a weekend.
My wife and I must go back...we were looking places over with an eye to moving to CR when we visited a decade ago. We pretty much decided that if we did move that Heredia looked like a great spot.
I would not have guessed this. I can see it now; it's just not my mental image of you. Actually, I don't know what my mental image was in terms of your diet of books, but it wasn't that, lol.Though 90% of my reading is in English
Atenas is the place I would look at. Town up in the mountains but a manageable drive to SJ. Have noticed some European-owned restaurants popping up in that area.
Heredia is nice, but the traffic going up can be a pain. That area had the prettiest girls back in the day (I'm sure that's a real winning data point with the wife).
You old guys -- you and Zoo come to mind -- have been on quite a roll recently with the accuracy of your recollections of long ago events.Thanks for the tip...am I wrong in remembering a light rail set-up from SJ to Heredia?
I read some Mario Vargas Llosa. And I enjoyed what I did. I hope to read more someday when I don’t read so many drafts of student essays and annotated bibliographies and tests and theses. My favorite thing that he wrote came in 1984 when he had already begun his rightish leaning. It was ‘The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.’ It is never touted as his best but I liked it for the history. I should (and will) read ‘Harsh Times’ (2019) because it is about Guatemala. While he left The Left, spent time as a Liberal, then moved Center-Right, he was always anti-authoritarian and thus also anti-fascist - which in these times is something hopeful to bind some of us together in solidarity I guess.
Quote from ‘El País’ of Spain following the death of Vargas Llosa: "...when it seemed that he would no longer write anything worthy of his great novels, he published the superb ‘Harsh Times,’ (Tiempos Recios) based on the CIA's intervention to overthrow—in 1954 and with false accusations of radical communism—the moderately social democratic government of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala. The work closes with a paragraph in which Vargas Llosa, a staunch anti-Castroist, demonstrated that rather than being an enemy of Fidel Castro, he was a friend of the truth. The Guatemalan lesson, he acknowledged, led revolutionary Cuba to ally itself with the Soviet Union to ‘shield itself against pressure, boycotts and possible aggression from the United States.’ In his opinion, ‘the history of Cuba could have been different’ if the United States had earlier accepted the ‘modernization and democratization" of the Guatemala attempted by Árbenz.’”~ ‘El Pais,’ — Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)
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Muere Mario Vargas Llosa, gigante de las letras universales
El escritor hispano peruano, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010, fue autor de obras maestras como ‘Conversación en La Catedral’. Ha fallecido en Lima a los 89 añoselpais.com
I would not have guessed this. I can see it now; it's just not my mental image of you. Actually, I don't know what my mental image was in terms of your diet of books, but it wasn't that, lol.
Anyway, I would have liked to read Garcia Marquez in Spanish. And I'd bet Borges is a better read in the original. I know of Vargas of course but have never read his works.
Thanks for the tip...am I wrong in remembering a light rail set-up from SJ to Heredia?
That was before their messiah arrived and told them the “truth”.It amuses me that Republicans used to warn of following a path like Venezuela. And now…