The 45-member hippie commune at the Pure Life Treehouse Community in southern Costa Rica is yet to learn of the Covid-19 pandemic, native Jerry de Jong said Monday, adding that residents spend most of their time pondering the cosmos and aligning their chakras, not reading news. “You news, you lose man,” de Jong said Monday beneath…
Costa Rica’s Tourism Institute unveiled a new statue today to commemorate the “courage, leadership and educational vision” demonstrated by British teacher Richard Glenn, who got drunk and took teenaged students to a strip club while on a school trip to the Central American country in 2019. Glenn, who received international attention following his teaching ban…
‘MERICA __ Tex-Mex restaurants across the country are banding together this week to ensure the flawed traditions of margaritas, sombreros, maracas, bastardized Mexican food and overall cultural cluelessness are again propagated upon masses of uninformed Americans this Cinco De Mayo. Wednesday’s Cinco De Mayo promises to be another idiot-dance of obliviousness celebrated by legions of white…
TAMARINDO, COSTA RICA – Leonard Palmer’s mission to learn Spanish in Costa Rica ended tragically on Monday when the 37-year-old Tempe, Arizona native jumped off a bridge after losing his mind trying to understand reflexive verbs. Palmer, who had high hopes when he moved to Costa Rica to learn Spanish in January, was advancing in…
Our Mae of the Week is Brad Reardon. Originally from Ann Arbor Michigan, Brad has spent the last five years of his post 6-year community college life teaching English at the Let Go Inglish Academy in Alajuela. Recently, he has been considering a career change to full-time Ropa Americana model since the move to online classes has…
After decades of cringeworthy mispronunciations, the restaurant chain Pizza Hut and soft drink giant Pepsi announced Monday they will change their brand names in Latin America to PeKsi and PiKza Hut to cater to a more regionalized audience. Beginning April 1, all 461 Pizza Hut restaurants in Latin America will officially become PiKza Hut, a…
Movie director Steven Spielberg, who announced Monday that he will redo the idiotic scene in Jurassic Park that depicts San José, Costa Rica as a tropical beach town, has shared exclusive images from the movie’s on-going update, being filmed in the capital city known as Chepe. Stay tuned to Elpeji.com for exclusive updates and images…
Movie director Steven Spielberg announced on Monday that he will update one of the most controversial scenes of the film Jurassic Park — which depicts San José, Costa Rica as a tropical beach town — to incorporate authentic shots of the capital city’s famed landmarks and urine-drenched squalor. In one of the opening scenes of…
The Paris Saint-Germain soccer team will be without Keylor Navas indefinitely after the Costa Rican goalkeeper ascended to Heaven following his save of a Lionel Messi penalty kick last week. Navas, who is already seen as a deity in his native Costa Rica, was summoned to Heaven by the Holy Spirit during a postgame press…
The Central American nation of Costa Rica is the world’s best place to flee when trying to escape criminal charges, tax evasion, crippling drug addictions, or overall creepy shit you wouldn’t even write in your own diary, a recent study found. Long considered a refuge for foreigners trying to leave baggage behind and outrun their…
Sun-starved Canucks cause confusion, polar(izing) vortex angst in Nicoya Peninsula MAL PAÍS — As the western hemisphere continues to dig itself out of the pandemic version of a polar vortex, Costa Ricans breathed a sigh of relief this week after what was first thought to be snowfall on a local beach was actually just pasty…
A Houston man trying to fly to the Costa Rican town of Liberia last week found himself in the west African nation of the same name some 32 hours later. Attempting to escape record cold that left millions of Texans without electricity, Tony Townsend, 44, jumped at a Southwest Airlines promotion offering cheap flights to…
“Read my lips: No New Street Names” José María Figueres, a presidential hopeful for 2022, assured Costa Ricans on Monday that he has no plans to change the country’s highly efficient address system, an announcement celebrated by attendees of the press conference held 80 meters north and 25 meters east of the Musmanni bakery in…
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – Diez horas después de que terminara el primer debate presidencial en México, el candidato favorito, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aún se encuentra en el Palacio de Minería respondiendo la pregunta final de la noche, de acuerdo con el personal del lugar. AMLO, conocido por su ritmo de habla lento y monótono,…
MEXICO CITY – Ten hours since the conclusion of Mexico’s Presidential debate, front-runner Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador is still at the Palacio de Minería answering the final question from last night, according to the venue’s custodial staff. AMLO, who is known for his measured, snail-paced speaking rhythm, was still completing his planned remarks and presenting…
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