I could use stronger language, but you get the idea: I am mightily pissed off. Costa Rica is a great place to live, if you don’t mind living in the Middle Ages. This morning, for example, I tried to install my new Internet modem. This is a great new model, with all the bells and [...]...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum We have written several blog posts here about Russell's violations of the right to union organizing in Honduras.  Because of its abuses in Honduras, Russell ended up on ILRF's list of corporations that violate freedom of association....

Filed under: Photos, Stories, South America, Colombia, Hidden Gems, Hotels and Accommodations, Budget Travel, News, Travel Deals I think long and hard about what kind of cool, helpful knowledge I might be able to share with Gadling readers, and sometimes the most obvious material escapes me. But it ...

Day 5 of the UNCAF Cup sees the conclusion of proceedings in Group A. Earlier tonight, Nicaragua surprisingly drew 1-1 against Belize. I say it was a surprise because Nicaragua played so well against El Salvador and Honduras. Harrison Roches took the lead for Belize on 18 minutes, and Juan Barrera s...

Over the holidays, we stayed on Ambergris Caye, a Belizean Caribbean island. It's essentially a long thin spit of sand, about 30 miles long, and only 4 blocks wide, kind of like Fire Island. Unfortunately, my brand new SanDisk 8 gig card fizzled out after the trip, and we may have lo...

Each individual has what is called an ‘official future’ they imagine. It is essentially a compilation of assumptions usually based on extending current trends into the future in a linear way. That means assuming the US Dollar will remain the world’s reserve currency because it is n...

Latin America is so conservative it is unusual to find someone doing things differently. But today I found two serious, hard-working gals doing just that. They had decided on the Mercado in Cartago as the location for their new restaurant. This was smart, because the Mercado gets a lot of traffic &#...

Seventy-five lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender delegates from different Central American countries congregated this past week in Nicaragua's capital city of Managua for what participants are calling the first such region-wide encounter, reports El Nuevo Diario ("First gathering on sexual divers...

Mongabay: Last week Brazil unveiled plans to cut deforestation substantially from a 1996-2005 baseline of 19,533 squaure kilometers per year. The announcement met a mixed response from conservationists. Some applauded the decision to set hard targets for reducing deforestation, others say the target...

Heredia, Costa Rica is in the mountain valley and visually stunning. I don't know if I will get another internet connection again, as I am heading north, so I will try to get some more pictures in if I can. I think it will rain soon, so that may put a damper (quite literally on my photography plans)...