Costa Rica

Some Costa Rican Tongue

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I drew this cartoon for The Costa Rica Star and it ran Friday, March 16.

The president signed a new anti-nepotism law and I speculated  it could impact the next administration, if that presidency is occupied by religious wingnut Fabricio Alvarado and his speaking-in-tongues wife.

I draw four cartoon a month for the Star. Since there’s five weeks in March and the election is in early April, I took this week off so I can draw next week closer to election day.

Here’s the video.

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Cementazo Chopper

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I drew this cartoon last week for The Costa Rica Star.

Costa Rica presidential candidate Fabricio Alvarado has been flying to events in a helicopter that’s connected to Juan Carlo Bolanos. Bolanos is currently embroiled in the Cementazo scandal and is currently in preventive imprisonment (whatever that means) for embezzlement, influence peddling, criminal simulation and false accusation.

There’s a new cartoon for this week at The Star. Go check it out.

Here’s the video.

Please consider making a donation to keep the cartoons, columns, and videos coming. Reader contributions, small and large, really do help and are appreciated in a time of dwindling revenue for political cartoonists. You will also be supporting free speech and liberty while those in power are doing all they can to suppress it. You can also support by purchasing a signed print for $40.00. Just look at the right of this page and click the PayPal button. Thank you!

El Protector

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The United States donated three tactical vehicles to Costa Rica’s police forces, and they didn’t pass technical revisions.

The vehicles lack reflective stickers, as they’re all black, so they can operate on night missions. The exhaust system has a grill so people can’t go Beverly Hills Cop on them and insert bananas. There are no mufflers on the vehicles as they don’t make any noise.

After the SWAT type vehicles are made to conform to the nation’s standards, they’ll probably look more like an electric car, and not much use as a tactical vehicle for covert operations.

I drew this cartoon last week for The Costa Rica Star, and we made a video. It’s the first video for them. It’s longer than the videos I’m making now as I produced this one before I decided to go shorter.

Here’s the video.

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print (please specify which print you want or I won’t mail one). All donations will receive my eternal gratitude

Expat Democrats

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This cartoon ran last week in The Costa Rica Star.

I get annoyed at people who claim they’ll leave the country if they don’t get their way. You hear a lot of celebrities make that promise. But, after they don’t get their way they don’t ever do us the favor of keeping their promise and leaving. They stay and continue to vent.

One of their favorite destinations to not go to is Costa Rica. Rush Limbaugh swore he’d move to Costa Rica if Obamacare passed. He’s still here. If Rush had moved to Costa Rica he would have discovered a nation that already has a national health plan. Oops.

Liberals and Democrats aren’t any better. How many swore they’d move to Canada, France, the UK, or Costa Rica if Trump won. None of them left.

A lot of lefties believe Costa Rica is a liberal utopia in Central America. It’s a nation that takes climate change very seriously. However, it’s a very religious nation where abortion and same-sex marriage are illegal….for now.

An international court recently ruled that Costa Rica needs to allow same-sex marriage. Costa Ricans have responded to this by putting a candidate into their presidential runoff who is campaigning on the nation leaving the international court system and vowing to never recognize same-sex marriage.

So, liberals, if you want to be an expat in Costa Rica, keep in mind there’s a very strong religious conservative tilt in the nation despite the legal prostitution. That’s weird, right?

The Costa Rica Star discovered I am making videos of my cartoons. They’ve asked me to do the same for them. There is not a video for this cartoon, but there is one for the next. You can go to the Star’s YouTube channel and check it out.

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print (please specify which print you want or I won’t mail one). All donations will receive my eternal gratitude

Alvaradomania

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If you’re a betting person, you’ll put your money on Alvarado winning the presidency in Costa Rica.

The run-off pits Fabricio Alvarado against Carlos Alvarado. Fabricio is the religious zealot from the National Restoration Party, that only holds one seat in the National Assembly, which is held by Fabricio. Carlos is from the center/left Citizen Action Party, which currently holds the presidency of a government that’s in a financial crisis.

Do you vote the guy from the party that hurt the nation’s economy, or do you vote the guy who only cares about fighting against same-sex marriage? Decisions, decisions. It would be a pretty simple choice for me.

You vote for Carlos, the guy who at least has a clue on how government and the economy works against. You don’t want to put a religious bigot in charge of your nation. Costa Ricans only have to look north to see how that works out.

This cartoon ran last Friday for The Costa Rica Star. There’s a new cartoon up for this week, which I’ll post here next week.

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print (please specify which print you want or I won’t mail one). All donations will receive my eternal gratitude

Some Costa Rica Tongue

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Here’s last week’s cartoon for The Costa Rica Star.

A video emerged of presidential candidate, Fabricio Alvarado, wife speaking in tongue. It’s good stuff. I’m not far enough along in my Spanish lessons to hold a conversation yet, but I can tell from the tape when she’s not speaking Spanish…or any discernible language.

Fabricio made the run-off last Sunday and there’s a very good chance the religious zealot will be Costa Rica’s next president.

There’s a new cartoon up this week (which I’ll post here next week). Go to the Star’s page and check it out.

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print (please specify which print you want or I won’t mail one). All donations will receive my eternal gratitude

Election Day In Costa Rica

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Costa Rica is going to the polls today to elect a brand-new president. This cartoon was published last week for The Costa Rica Star (and there’s a new one for this week which I’ll post here next week. Confusing? Yeah).

Fabricio Alvarado, an evangelical preacher and singer of Christian music whose wife speaks in tongues (go see this week’s cartoon), was languishing in the polls until the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Costa Rica should allow same-sex marriage. Now, Alvarado is leading in the polls of the heavily religious nation.

While the nation is very progressive on environmental issues, voters vote their religion. In addition to same-sex marriage, abortion is illegal in Costa Rica. The nation is heavily in debt and its credit rating is plummeting, but most voters are focused on social issues. Alvarado has barely campaigned on the fiscal issues.

It’s doubtful he’ll get enough of the vote to win the presidency outright. So, there’ll be a runoff in April. Look forward to more cartoons on Costa Rica’s elections until then. I’m sure if Alvarado wins, I’ll have a lot of fun with “President Fabricio.”

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print (please specify which print you want or I won’t mail one). All donations will receive my eternal gratitude