Monday Notes: Costa Rica Updates and Such

This is a little long because I didn’t want to break it up. Take what interests you, but I hope you read the whole thing. NICARAGUA I was a child during the Iran-Contra Affair. So, going to Nicaragua was not on my BINGO card. I remember hearing talking heads on TV; however, I never knew what the big deal was, just that Nicaragua was “bad,” and I probably would never visit. However, I’m living in Costa Rica, and Nica is a border country. So, my husband and I paid a tour company to transport us to Customs, where we showed our passport and literally walked to Nicaragua. Then, another person met us and provided a day tour through a municipality called Catarina and a city called, Granada. On our day tour, I learned Nicaragua is a very poor country. The tour guide had strong feelings about his homeland: he said socialism was bad and the people and country had endured negative effects. He also subscribed to major US businesses opening there because they bring jobs, something citizens need to…