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...Other Ways to Help ? Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys ? Improve health conditions in remote regions with Medicines Global by packing extra first-aid kits ? To offset the CO2 emissions released during your travels, go to treesftf.org and purchase CO2-consuming trees ($1 will offset a round-trip domestic flight, $3 an international...
Night falls early near the equator, and by 6:30 p.m. it’s dusky here in suburban Santa Ana, Costa Rica. By 10:00 p.m. it is pitch black on the main thoroughfare through the village, a road with no name and no street lamps, like every other street here. Tonight it is raining-raining black oil, slicking roads, roofs, every breathable molecule of air-and I am standing outside in the pitch darkness on the no-name main street, waiting to catch a bus to Piedades, another suburb of San Jose: I’m going night...
Tucked away behind walls, doors, shades, locks, closed mouths, and closed minds, the disabled and the mentally handicapped have no such foothold on the attention and the anxious imagination of San Jose and Costa Rica. They are too expediently forgotten; too easily neglected and ignored...
...Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the streets in the darkness, in the rain, alone...
...week, this time as special envoy to Central America. There had been speculation that the purpose of his trip was to discuss President Reagan's plans for stepped-up support for the Nicaraguan contras. Habib insisted that his talks with the leaders of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica were "exploratory...