Costa Rica

Costa Rica Vacay

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This cartoon first ran November 30, 2018, in The Costa Rica Star.

Where do people in Costa Rica go when on vacation? I wondered the same thing about Hawaii before I moved there, and then I found out. They go to Las Vegas.

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Costa Rica Marchamo

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This cartoon was first published in The Costa Rica Star, November 23, 2018.

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Costa Rican Turf

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This cartoon originally ran in The Costa Rica Star, November 16, 2018.

Last Monday night, The NFL was to host a game between the Los Angeles Ram and Kansas City Chiefs in Mexico City at Estadio Azteca Stadium. These international games have been huge successes for the NFL, and a regular season game at this stadium in 2005 between the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals set the record of the largest crowd to attend a regular-season NFL game with 103,467, now since broken. Keep in mind, that was a game featuring the Cardinals.

Unfortunately, this year’s regular season game had to be moved to Los Angeles because the field was in horrible shape. Where did the company come from that was hired to do the field? Costa Rica.

There are a lot of inside jokes about Costa Rica contractors being unreliable. “Manana” in Costa Rica doesn’t mean tomorrow, it means “never.” Projects are rarely ever completed when promised and you usually end up paying more than the quoted price, especially if you’re an expat.

I’m sure the NFL will return to Mexico city, but I bet the Costa Rican contractor for the field doesn’t.

By the way…

…here’s the rough. I just really like it for some reason.

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Alvarado Explodes

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This cartoon was first published November 9, 2018 in The Costa Rica Star.

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Costa Rica Colones

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This cartoon was first published in The Costa Rica Star on November 2, 2018.

Did you know that in addition to being very low in currency, that Costa Rica’s colones has monkeys and sloths on it? Now that’s kinda cool.

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Costa Rica Middle Class

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This cartoon was first published October 26, 2018, in The Costa Rica Star.

There’s a movement in Costa Rica, which is deep in debt, to reduce the salaries of positions like bank presidents and the president of the nation’s Supreme Court. Fernando Cruz makes a salary of $10,600 (U.S.) a month. He argues that this is a middle-class income in Costa Rica and if his salary is reduced then he’ll be reduced to living in poverty.

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Weed In Costa Rica

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This cartoon was first published October 19, 2018, in The Costa Rica Star.

Last week my editor at the Star asked me to do something on marijuana becoming legal in Costa Rica, in relation to the news of it becoming legal in Canada. I initially didn’t think it was a good subject because medicinal weed isn’t legal in Costa Rica, so why would we talk about it becoming legal recreationally? But, I changed my mind.

Why did I change my mind? Because, people are passionate about pot. Usually, you know someone smokes marijuana, not so much from the smell, but from them talking about it constantly. They’re like vegetarians. How can you tell if someone is a vegetarian? They’ll tell you…repeatedly.

Frankly, it’s stupid not to legalize marijuana. If alcohol is legal, then you might as well legalize weed. It’s no more dangerous, and in fact, may not really be dangerous at all. I guarantee if the Democratic nominee for president stands on a platform of legalizing it, and not just OK with it, but fully open and promising to work to make it legal, that candidate will win. There will be millions of first-time voters.

There are more smokers of marijuana in Costa Rica than cigarette smokers. Cigarettes are legal. Marijuana is not. It’s probably going to stay that way for a long time. Don’t hold your breath.

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