Chinamos
Ready
For
Romeria
The
trek
-
Pilgrimage
- to
Cartago
has
begun
with
the
first
few
thousands
beating
the
rush
of
more
than
2
million
expected
between
Wednesday
and
Thursday
(August
1
and
2).
And
while
the
masses
are
preparing
for
their
walk,
so
are
the
'chinamos'
-
the
fast
food
vendors.
Rutas
32
and
10
Open.
For
Now.
The
Minsterio
de
Obras
Publica
y
Transportes
(MOPT)
and
the
Policía
de
Tránsito
(traffic
police)
re-opened
passage
on
the
Ruta
10
in
Turrialba
after
a
landslide
forced
its
closure
in
the
early
hours
of
Saturday.
ICE
Workers
Strike
Today
San
José
will
be a
traffic
nightmare
today
as employees
of
the
Instituto
Costarricense
de
Electricidad
(ICE)
and
local
electrical
cooperatives
will
march
against
bills
proposed
by
the
government
that,
they
claim,
would
allow
the
opening
of
the
electricity
market
in
the
country.
Peñas
Blancas:
The
Border
You've
Never
Heard
About
Driving
north
for
an
hour
from
Liberia,
Costa
Rica,
passing
skinny
cows
in
postcard-green
meadows,
one
wonders
if
civilization
is
ever
going
to
reemerge.
Then
the
taxi
driver
slams
on
his
brakes.
He
comes
to a
smoking
halt
behind
a
row
of
eighteen
wheeler
trucks
at a
standstill
spanning
as
far
as
the
eye
can
see,
inching
forward
like
a
row
of
dinosaurs
migrating
north.
INSIDE
|
COMMENTARY
Will
or
Won't
He
Is
The
Question
Of A
Figueres
Bid
For
The
Presidency
Though
he
has
yet
to
confirm
if
he
will
be
running
for
the
party
nomination,
former
president
José
María
Figueres
Olsen
is
acting
as
if
he
were
in
the
race,
naming
Carlos
Dengo,
grandson
of
Jorge
Manuel
Dengo,
as
his
representative
before
the
Partido
Liberacion
Nacional
assembly.
INSIDE
|
GUANACASTE
Work
Improves
Irrigation
Services
in
Guanacaste
More
than
a
thousand
production
families
from
the
irrigation
district
of
Arenal
Tempisque,
DRAT,
located
in
Guanacaste
now
have
a
better
system
for
the
critic
periods
of
drought
that
may
occur
in
the
next
couple
of
months.
The OneCall Ground Transportation Experience!
Dutch
Firms
Report
Hired
For
Feasibility
Study
Of
Nicaragua
Canal
(Associated
Press)
Two
Dutch
companies
say
they
have
been
awarded
a
US$720,000
(EURO
587,000)
contract
by
the
Nicaraguan
government
to
study
the
feasibility
of
building
a
rival
to
the
Panama
canal
that
would
travel
through
Nicaragua
and
Costa
Rica.
INSIDE
|
FOOD
The
Photographic
Tricks
That
Make
McDonald’s
Burgers
Look
Good
If
you've
ever
wondered
how
McDonalds
manages
to
make
its
burgers
look
so
much
more
appetizing
in
the
pictures
than
they
do
in
real
life,
wonder
no
more.
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