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... Continue Reading →
Alvarado Explodes
This cartoon was first published November 9, 2018 in The Costa Rica Star. Be Complicit What kind of person would want to be part of something that disparages, slanders, and disrespects Dear Leader and his sycophantic followers? Hopefully, you. Making a contribution supports my work and keeps the cartoons, columns, and videos coming. My income... Continue Reading →
Costa Rica Colones
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. Be Complicit What kind of person would want to be part of something that disparages,... Continue Reading →
Costa Rica Middle Class
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... Continue Reading →
Weed In Costa Rica
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... Continue Reading →
Costa Rica’s Paid Strikers
This cartoon was published in The Costa Rica Star, October 12, 2018. Despite not going to work, many strikers in Costa Rica were actually paid while striking. A court ruled that the Ministry of Education must recoup $150 million paid to strikers during the strike. And, over 550 of the strikers even traveled out of... Continue Reading →
Angry Mob In Costa Rica
This cartoon was first published in The Costa Rica Star October 5, 2018. The strikes are winding down in Costa Rica and this week's cartoon may be the last on the subject...maybe. I did this cartoon before the "angry mob" narrative was started in the U.S. by Republicans. In Costa Rica, there actually were angry... Continue Reading →
Striking Boobies In Costa Rica
This cartoon was first published September 28, 2018, in The Costa Rica Star. Strikes protesting the new tax system in the nation have been continuing for several weeks, despite the courts ruling them illegal. Last week, some strikers took over operating rooms to prevent oncology patients from receiving scheduled surgeries. From an article written by... Continue Reading →
Two Tickets To Paradise
This cartoon was first published in The Costa Rica Star, September 21, 2018. The United States State Department was warning citizens in and planning to visit Costa Rica of the strike, warning that it was causing delays in traffic and at airports, and that there were even accounts of violence. Expats in Costa Rica initially said... Continue Reading →
Baby Strikers
This cartoon was published Friday, September 14, 2018, in The Costa Rica Star. When I drew this cartoon, I knew a lot of the country wasn't really being affected by the strike. Most of the attention was in the capital and other larger cities. That may have changed this week, and I think I kinda... Continue Reading →