This author selected this piece by Costa Rican artist Gussa, “Fukushima,” which depicts the vibrancy, happiness and life we all need during hard times.
(Courtesy of Gussa)
A Tico Times writer reflects on how the opportunity given to her by owner and publisher Jonathan Harris has begun to affect the course of her life.
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Jonathan passed away on June 29 in Escazú. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.
Dean Hinton, center, in San Salvador, 1983.
(Courtesy of Deborah Hinton)
Dean Hinton died at his home in Escazú after a long and distinguished diplomatic career.
Radio Columbia, McGregor’s home of many years, shared this homage on www.columbiadeportiva.com.
(Via columbiadeportiva.com)
Costa Rica mourns the passing of the man who owned the country’s most legendary voice.
Gerardo Cruz, 22, died at Calderón Guardia Hospital in San José on Nov. 19, 2015.
(Via Facebook)
In an ugly twist to the story of a young man hailed as a defender of women, police say he was killed by a jilted lover.
(from left) Alberto, Tomás, Helena, Carlos, Benito, Ricardo, Antonio, Melody and Wolf Guindon, Monteverde, 1969
(Courtesy Kay Chornook)
Wilford “Wolf” Guindon was one of the founders of the Monteverde Quaker community in Costa Rica and a pioneer conservationist.
Fernando Cardenal, jesuit and former Minister for Education in the first sandinist goverment of Nicaragua, during the presentation of his book Junto a mi pueblo in Valladolid, Spain on April 2, 2009. He died Saturday at age 82.
(Lucien via Wikimedia Commons)
Fernando Cardenal was minister of education and led a literacy campaign under Nicaragua’s Sandinista government in the 1980s.
John Koger, representing his love of Costa Rica.
(Courtesy of the family)
Twenty-year Costa Rica resident John Koger, the owner of bus-ticketing and travel service A Safe Passage, died of a heart attack on Nov. 9, 2015, at the age of 61.
Gerardo Cruz, the young man who was stabbed shortly after exposing a perpetrator of street harassment toward a woman in San José, died at Calderón Guardia Hospital in Costa Rica on Thursday, Nov. 19.
(Via Facebook)
Gerardo Cruz, the young Costa Rican man who became a national hero for boldly calling out street harassment of women, died at Calderón Guardia hospital Thursday.
In the immediate aftermath of the 1981 assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Special Agent Jerry Parr shoved the President into a limousine, helping save his life. Parr died Oct. 9, 2015.
Sebastião Salgado
The “true hero” Secret Service agent who helped save the life of U.S. president Ronald Reagan during a 1981 assassination attempt has died aged 85.
