Back then there were still Puerto Rican gangs, defending their turf against white or black rivals.
Mr Chávez has renamed it "Indian Resistance Day".Costa Rican prosecutors were standing by to arrest the head of the Organisation of American States, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, as soon as his term and immunity from prosecution officially expired on October 15th.
Anyone still tempted to idealise the Olympics really ought to read Mr Payne's account of the IOC's wrath as visited on a 1996 Costa Rican swimmer and gold medallist who turned out to have snuck a Pepsi advertisement onto her cap.
Hours after Intel announced its departure, Bank of America said it would close its Costa Rican operations as part of a global restructuring programme, laying off 1,400 workers.It is a grim start for the new government of Luis Guillermo Solís, who will be sworn in as president on May 8th.
Puerto Rican state agencies fall in a gap in America's bankruptcy code: they are excluded from the regimes both for local governments and private firms.
IN AN intriguing exchange a few days ago, Dani Rodrik expressed his faith in the Costa Rican people, who were busy participating in referendum on whether or not that nation ought to participate in the CAFTA regional trade agreement.
FOR ten hours on April 22nd Mario Uribe, a former senator and a cousin of Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe, holed up in the Costa Rican embassy in Bogotá seeking political asylum.
The US and Cuba will also discuss the case of William Morales, a Puerto Rican nationalist wanted in connection with bombings in New York in the 1970s.
Merritt is injured so the biggest threat may be Javier Culson, a 6ft 5in Puerto Rican, who has beaten Greene 3-0 this year.
And Latino children who make up 38% of those in the city's schools (29% in the area's)—are often taught in badly overcrowded classes.So far, despite a handful of aldermen in the city, a few officials in the suburbs and one Puerto Rican member of Congress, relatively few Latinos hold public office.
The specifics of each project are dreamed up by local groups, so they tend to highlight the diversity of the city, from the Grecian pillars in Greek Town to the Puerto Rican flags in Humboldt Park.
