Yearly Archives: 2015
The Night Transfer of Cubans From San Jose
QCOSTARICA - Despite the dismantling by Costa Rican authorities of a human trafficking network on November 12, and believed to be the cause for now more than 2,500 Cuban migrants stranded at the Peñas Blancas border, has the business of the coyotes (the smugglers) really been broken?
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Politics is Closer Than It Seems
QCOSTARICA via Vozdeguanacaste - The word politics sometimes sounds unconnected to our life and our personality. It is common to hear neighbors or friends say they are not interested in politics, and that might even be your position or mine. However, we don’t realize that we ingest politics daily.
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Colombia’s Really Weird Beauty Pageants
TODAY COLOMBIA - Colombia’s got a thing with beauty pageants. Traditionally, these events are tied to promoting agriculture, but the phenomenon has expanded to include donkeys and 7-year-old girls in bikini.
Colombia is a country with one of the greatest number of beauty pageants in the world. The BBC calculated...