Word: ricas
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...make their golden years extra mellow. Although places like Playa del Carmen and Cancún in Mexico have long been retirement havens, ever venturesome boomers are settling deeper into Central America, lured there as much by the laid-back ethos as by the lush forests and beckoning beaches. Costa Rica alone, according to the foreign-retiree association Casa Canada in San José, plays host to 50,000 Americans. That migration has spawned a real estate boom in scenic coastal and mountain towns from Honduras to Panama...
While many students will avoid their reading and darken their tans this spring break, the Harvard branch of Federation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) will head to Costa Rica to aid Nicaraguan refugees...
Approximately 13,000 Nicaraguan refugees, mainly single women and children, have fled to Costa Rica to escape poverty and persecution, according to the FIMRC website and Angela M. Mayorga ’09, the coordinator of the trip...
...Costa Rica, largely immune to the dictatorships, corruption and grinding poverty that mark so many of its neighbors, has long been considered the ?Switzerland of Central America.? But in recent years it has been plagued by a moribund economy and a string of presidential bribery scandals that have made it a ripe target for left-leaning pols like Solis. Arias, meanwhile, ran a bland campaign that seemed to rest on his Nobel laurels. ?Such a weighty name was supposed to sweep away any opponent,? says political analyst Victor Ramirez, ?but [voters] proved it wasn?t enough to reconquer? a population...
...Clarification: In the article "Dodging a Bullet in Costa Rica", TIME described presidential election runner-up Otton Solis as having been "backed by the radical and increasingly popular left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez." While the Chavez government favored Solis' candidacy, Solis insists he distanced himself during his campaign from Chavez's more radical anti-U.S. policies. As Solis himself wrote in an email to TIME, "I am sure you know that I have been highly critical of Chavez populism and gut antagonism towards the USA. It seems that you have fallen into the cold war extremist?s view...