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...government has concentrated on building roads, schools and hospitals instead of arsenals. The country now boasts the highest per capita income in Central America ($1,520) as well as the lowest illiteracy rate (under 10%). "The last thing this country needs is an army," maintains José ("Don Pepe") Figueres Ferrer, the first President of neutral Costa Rica...
...hours a day in the winter, light 24 hours a day in the summer, treeless, ice-ridden Barrow, lusted for a Mexican restaurant, Fran claims. "So I just overdrew my checking account by $11,000, wrote a hot check, let a couple of big bills slide and opened Pepe's North of the Border...
...Outside, Pepe's is not much to look at; inside, you could be in Nuevo Laredo: serapes, sombreros, paintings of matadors, Mexican waiters. Open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., it has three dining rooms, 234 seats, and it is usually jammed. Fran plans to expand...
...character "was awful. Everyone else's said, 'To the best-looking girl in school,' that sort of thing. I thought what a dud I was." Today she owns a sewage-disposal service in Barrow, as well as a water-delivery service, as well as Pepe...
Fran Tate sells ice cubes to Eskimos for $3 a bag and sells out frequently. If she has her way, one day there will be a skating rink in Barrow. For now, Pepe's thrives. (Mervin Setoyant, for instance, eats there four times a week. "It's something different," he says with a bored shrug, contemplating his usual order...