Volume 53, Number 10 · June 8, 2006
The Trouble with Costa Rica
By Stephen Kinzer
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina
Duke University Press, 383 pp., $79.95; $22.95 (paper)
Estado de la Nación en Desarrollo Humano Sostenible (State of the Nation on Sustainable Human Development)
San José: Programa Estado de la Nación, 432 pp., available atwww.estadonacion.or.cr
Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?
by Eva Paus
Palgrave Macmillan, 250 pp., $65.00
La Miel de los Mudos, y Otros Cuentos Ticos de Ciencia Ficción
by Iván Molina Jiménez
San José: Editorama, 92 pp., $12.50 (paper)
The CIA needed a very important favor from Oscar Arias after he became president of Costa Rica in 1986. Just across his country's northern border, in Nicaragua, CIA-sponsored rebels were fighting to overthrow the leftist Sandinista regime. Costa Rica's outgoing president had allowed them to maintain clandestine bases on Costa Rican territory. The CIA wanted Arias to do so as well.
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