Bitcoin’s realized losses fourth largest on record while unrealized losses increase. You cannot lose if you do not sell. BlockFi is the latest crypto firm to file for bankruptcy following the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire. Crypto: BlockFi files for bankruptcy on the heels of FTX collapse, https://youtu.be/XHpCH_FtHNo. BlockFi will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection later today, a source at the company told Decrypt.
In an official announcement, the New Jersey-based company said it "will focus on recovering all obligations owed to BlockFi," but that "recoveries from FTX will be delayed" due to the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings at the fallen crypto exchange.
BlockFi, which let users earn yield for depositing idle cryptocurrencies on the platform, first halted withdrawals on November 11, the same day FTX filed for bankruptcy. “We, like the rest of the world, found out about this situation through Twitter,” BlockFi wrote in a letter at that time. “We are shocked and dismayed by the news regarding FTX and Alameda.”
The crypto lender is also laying off a large portion of its staff.
In June, BlockFi announced a revolving $250 million line of credit with FTX roughly a week after the crypto lender cut staff by roughly 20%. It said that it was reducing its headcount due to "the dramatic shift in macroeconomic conditions worldwide."
BlockFi isn't the only platform that FTX has bailed out. The crypto exchange also doled out a $120 million loan in August 2021 to the Liquid Group after the latter suffered a $90 million hack. Liquid was then acquired by FTX in May 2022.
The crypto platform suspended withdrawals on November 15 and has yet to reopen them.
Voyager Digital also landed a $500 million line of credit in June from FTX's sister firm Alameda Research. Voyager later filed for bankruptcy on July 6.
As it is, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index dropped from 28 to 26 today.
Bankruptcies, shrinking profit margins and traders realizing hefty losses are all signs of capitulation from various Bitcoin market participants.
One thing miners, short-term and long-term holders have in common is they are losing in the market right now.
According to an on-chain analysis from Glassnode, the scale of both realized and unrealized losses amongst Bitcoin holders is one of the heaviest capitulation events in BTC’s history. Capitulation is hindering all groups from the increasing number of bankruptcies and dwindling miner revenue.
November recorded $10.8 billion in 7-day realized losses for Bitcoin. The largest recorded realized loss in Bitcoin’s history is June 2022 when $19.8 billion was recorded. Such losses show that a large volume of Bitcoin has changed hands at discounted prices.
I entered the market in February 2020 at a price of 10k per bitcoin, perhaps for many who enter the market this month they can see great gains in a few years, as I experienced them in 2020 and 2021. Like many, I continuethinking that BTC will cost more than a million dollars within the next 5-10 years.
Strait of Gibraltar crossing: Tarifa and Tangier could be linked with an underwater tunnel or bridge by 2030. Why Aren't Africa and Europe connected by a bridge? Gibraltar megaprojects, https://youtu.be/4obQiU18ZWo. Since the 19th century, ideas have been debated to unite Spain and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar. The two most studied options in all these years we tell you today.
Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago.
The Strait of Gibraltar crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel spanning the Strait of Gibraltar (about 14 km or 9 miles at its narrowest point) that would connect Europe and Africa. The governments of Spain and Morocco appointed a joint committee to investigate the feasibility of linking the two continents in 1979, which resulted in the much broader Euromed Transport project.
In January 2021, it was reported that the United Kingdom and Morocco would discuss building the crossing between Gibraltar and Tangiers.
Several engineers have designed bridges on various alignments and with different structural configurations. A proposal by Professor T.Y. Lin for a crossing between Point Oliveros and Point Cires featured deep piers, a length of 14 kilometers (9 miles), 910-meter-tall (3,000 ft) towers, and a 5,000-metre (16,000-foot) span, more than twice the length of the current longest bridge span. A 2004 proposal by architect Eugene Tsui was for a floating and submerged bridge connected at a three-mile wide island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
Various tunnels have been proposed. Spain first proposed a modern tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar in 1930. A major problem arose when the engineers hired by the Spanish government discovered that the material under the Strait was extremely hard rock, making tunnelling impossible with the available technology. One engineering solution was to fix, using cables, a prefabricated concrete tunnel to the floor of the Strait. This tunnel would handle automotive and train traffic.
A 2008 geological study cast doubt on the tunnel's feasibility. In March 2009, a contract was issued for a joint system linking the Moroccan Société Nationale d'Etudes du Détroit de Gibraltar (SNED) with its Spanish counterpart, Sociedad española de estudios para la comunicación fija a través del Estrecho de Gibraltar SA (Secegsa). A three-year study for a railway tunnel was announced in 2003. SNED and Secegsa commissioned several seabed surveys.
The Strait depth extends to 900 meters (3,000 ft) on the shortest route, although it is only about 300 meters deep slightly further west, in a region known as the Camarinal Sill; the European and African tectonic plates meet around this area. The shortest crossing is 14 kilometers (8.7 mi). The proposed route of 23 kilometers (14 mi) is west of Tarifa and to the east of Tangier. The tunnel is likely to be about 34 kilometers (21 miles) in all. It is proposed that a connection would have to be made to the Spanish high-speed railway network, which has a line projected to be built from Cádiz to Málaga via Algeciras.
A report on the feasibility of the tunnel was presented to the EU in 2009. A further project study is under development by a group of specialist consultants from SYSTRA, Amberg, and COWI.
Spain (Tarifa) and Morocco (Tangier) could be linked with an underwater tunnel. Now a ferry service works. Within the General State Budget for 2023, an item of €750,000 has been created that will go to Secegsa. The Spanish Society of Studies for Fixed Communication through the Strait of Gibraltar is the only organization that benefits from this amount. Leaders of the organization assure that the project could be a reality between 2030 and 2040; and that they will speak with a German company to carry out a feasibility study. This study will focus on the possibility of building an underwater tunnel between Tarifa and Tangier, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
The tunnel would be 38.7 km long and 27.8 km would be undersea. This underwater tunnel would carry a railway line with shuttle trains for trucks and vehicles and trains for freight and passengers. It would also include an optical fiber, power lines to provide light for the tunnel, and a gas pipeline through which green hydrogen would pass between Europe and Africa.
The Real Björn Ironside // Vikings in Spain & the Mediterranean, illustrate the importance of Gibraltar from ancient times, https://youtu.be/UgKQJ3WGJBk.
It’s a historic day for Costa Rica. Final score: Japan 0-1 Costa Rica. Reaction to Keysher Fuller Wonder Goal vs Japan | Costa Rica vs Japan 1-0. https://youtu.be/h4kaCZ4mtIc.
Costa Rica beats Japan to hand Germany a World Cup lifeline.
Doha – Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open and hand a potential lifeline to Germany.
It was Costa Rica’s first shot on target at this World Cup and could be of huge benefit to the Germans.
The result left Spain, Japan and Costa Rica all on three points. Spain face Germany later Sunday in another crucial contest.
Japan made five changes to the team which shocked Germany in their opening match as coach Hajime Moriyasu made full use of his 26-man squad.
In temperatures of 32 degrees Celsius at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium, Japan immediately went on the attack and won a corner within 30 seconds to signal their intent.
Costa Rica coach Luis Fernando Suarez had resisted making wholesale changes to the team thumped by Spain, dropping teenage winger Jewison Bennette and defender Carlos Martinez to the bench.
Gerson Torres and 34-year-old center-back Kendall Waston took their place in an ageing XI which featured four players from the 2014 World Cup quarter-finals.
But Japan’s early promise melted in the Doha sun and the first shot at goal — a tame effort which sailed high and wide — did not come until 10 minutes from half-time through Costa Rica’s 30-year-old Joel Campbell.
A dreary first half came to a close with “Los Ticos” having had more of the ball but neither side mustering a shot on target.
Moriyasu had seen enough and made a double change at the break, one of them the introduction of Bundesliga-based striker Takuma Asano, who scored the winner against the Germans.
The Samurai Blue were immediately more cutting, and midfielder Hidemasa Morita drew the first proper save of the match within seconds of the restart with a powerful strike.
Moriyasu threw on Brighton attacker Kaoru Mitoma for a defender just after the hour as Japan chased the victory that would put them on the cusp of the last 16.
It was all Japan as the match ticked into the last 20 minutes in front of 41,000 spectators.
Substitute Junya Ito looked to have wriggled free and was closing on goal, only for Costa Rica defender Francisco Calvo to cynically tug him back on the edge of the box, earning a yellow card that could easily have been red.
Costa Rica had done nothing for most of the game as an attacking force, but nine minutes from the normal time they stole it when Fuller’s shot took a deflection and looped in.
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Robotics and Nature of Consciousness, paper published in London, UK: 2022 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Engineering and Management (ICIEM).
The Politics of Consciousness | video lecture with Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, https://youtu.be/1rtS2OEV6bM. What is consciousness? Who has consciousness? And why is it so dangerous to confuse it with intelligence? How does our understanding of consciousness impact the ethical, political and legal debates about abortion, animal rights and the legal status of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? In this video talk, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari unpacks these huge questions step by step, and offers tools for thinking about them clearly.
These are some interesting times to be alive as humans and as the most
versatile curious layer "The Homo Sapiens" of this pale blue planet
"Earth" that we all call home in this large ever expanding sea of the
cosmos, we an unknown race just like a particle of chili flakes in
pizza, we are timid in our behavior and always chewing more than we can
actually swallow ---. There is something about to happen, well guess
what it has already started and this time it will change everything.
What is that one trait that defines and defies "Humans" from all the
other species and we all take proud in that is "Intelligence and
Consciousness" but the tide is shifting and a new traveller is coming to
the shores which will change our Alphabets from "A -- Z" to "A -- I"
and now welcome to the future "The Future of AI and Robotics" where
questions like "How Far is too Far" will be answered but for now the
"Answer of this abstract is Artificial Intelligence and cognitive
robotics". AI has its applications in almost all the fields today,
Medicine and Art to Space Architects and Cognitive Humanoid robots the
most visible yet deceptive the Mobile phones all is AI. The story is
long and all we can hope is that it will be a happy one ----.The AI is
actually peeping in our life’s much faster than many of the eminent
individuals predicted, from healing through AI to have a digital
interaction with Avatar of yourself with the help of AI, the Cognitive
robotics to cognitive embodiment all these have never been done in the
history of mankind, we are in the dawn of a new age "The Age of AI"
where the most important tool for survival will be the cooperation of
"Human Intelligence and Digital Consciousness." This paper is a nutshell
biography of Artificial Intelligence, its fundamentals, concise history
and the road ahead with all the applications of this fascinating term
which we all know as Artificial Intelligence. Read more at, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9853081.
Costa Rica has just won against Japan in Qatar 1-0. San Jose Sunday 27, 2022. Rafael A. Vilagut.
Is happiness a choice, a mindset shift, or can it be bought? San Jose Costa Rica, 26 November 2022. How to Buy Happiness With Money, https://youtu.be/Lgf3NuWFngk.
The hard reality is that the amount of happiness we experience in life is not a function of how much money we have. It’s not even about how many followers we have on social media. Deep Happiness is about committing to and doing difficult things mentally, physically, and spiritually… every day. That is the trifecta to happiness and that is the secret that nobody will ever tell you because nobody wants to admit that everything we know about happiness is wrong
We cannot expect the highest degree of significance and happiness to come about in an easy way. The opposite is actually true. The higher the degree of difficulty and sacrifice, the higher the degree of joy. This is true in all aspects of life…parenting, marriage, physical fitness, education, entrepreneurship, minimalism, yoga, meditation, heat therapy, cold therapy, breath-holding, etc, etc. The list goes on and on with examples of difficult paths that then lead to added joy and contentment.
At the end of the day the real decision is not to choose to be happy or depressed. That is impossible and a lie that is being sold to you. You can’t choose happiness. However, what you can do is to choose to go down the path that others forgo because it is scary. You can choose to complete a difficult task that will in turn lead to happiness and contentment.
Go out and do something different than you have always done. Go out and choose difficult, hard, and scary. In turn, you will see happiness not as something to pursue, but as something that will come knocking at your door as a result of your sacrifice to the pursuit of difficulty.
Read more, at https://happinesstrifecta.com/. Tomorrow is the first Sunday of Advent 2022, a date with meaning for Christians, which invites us to reset, start a new liturgical year and thus be happier in the rest of our lives.
In a month I will start a New Year's trip with a good friend to a city I have never been to before, which is already bringing me a lot of happiness.My advice, travel, write, ask for forgiveness, don't hold grudges, and share quality time with family and true friends.It has always worked for me in the search for happiness, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
Invitation call GALATEA DE ORO: San Joaquin de Flores Costa Rica, November 29 – International Women's Human Rights Defenders Day. Against the Pushback, We #PushForward | 16 Days 2022, https://youtu.be/Xx8Mw8ofi6Y.
Featured activists in the video (in order of appearance): • Marwa Azelmat | Digital rights expert and Lead policy advocate for the Association for Progressive Communications (Morocco) • Hanna Lemma | Women’s rights advocate, feminist researcher, and Founder/Director of Addis Powerhouse (Ethiopia) • Fernanda Rotondo | LGBTIQ, and human rights activist, Coordinator of the Gender, and Human Rights Division of the ANDHES organization (Argentina).
The Global 16 Days Campaign is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Originally called the "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence" campaign, it was initiated in 1991 by the first Women's Global Leadership Institute, held by the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), at Rutgers University.
Since 1991, more than 6,000 organizations from approximately 187 countries have participated in the campaign. In Costa Rica on November 29, at the San Joaquín de Flores library, Heredia province, at 2:00 p.m. we have been summoned by the Ambassador of Peace and Culture Alondra Gutierrez to participate in a Cultural Act where the Prizes will be awarded World Cups to nonviolence 2022.
Significant dates for The Global 16 Days Campaign. November 25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, November 29 – International Women's Human Rights Defenders Day, December 1 – World AIDS Day, December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 5 – Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, December 6 – Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, which is observed as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada, December 10 – International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The World Academy of Modern Costa Rican Literature video yesterday,
PRONTO GALATEA DE ORO, https://youtu.be/evvJWAoP9nY. El evento ha sido reprogramado para el Centro Comunal de Llorente de Flores, en Heredia tel 2101-6731 Costa Rica. Actualización, 28/11/2022. Misma hora, mismo programa.
San Jose Costa Rica November 25, 2022, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
This blog today explores the extent of corruption plaguing FIFA FIFA corruption occurs. How FIFA corrupted the World Cup, and how Russia 2018, and Qatar 2022 took advantage of it. Vox https://youtu.be/BlKVfJg4hHE.
On December 2, 2010, FIFA announced the 2022 World Cup would take place in a surprising country, Qatar. At that same meeting, they also announced that the 2018 World Cup would take place in Russia.
These selections set off a new chapter in FIFA’s history, one where the public would have a greater sense of how bribery and corruption have a huge role in who gets to host this international sporting event.
The last 14 World Cup locations were decided by a group of 24 powerful men within FIFA called the executive committee. Their votes meant a lot to bid nations and allegations of bidders bribing members of the committee lingered for decades. These allegations reached a new level when criminal investigations were launched nearly five years after that FIFA announcement. The fallout of these investigations nearly broke FIFA and tainted the World Cup. Watch the latest episode of Vox Atlas to understand how FIFA corrupted the World Cup host selection process.
The FIFA president said in 2019 Costa Rica could host the World Cup, and vowed ‘never again’ to corruption scandals in soccer. FIFA President Gianni Infantino 3 years ago, called on world football to “never again” return to the corruption scandals that shook the sport in recent years and led to the imprisonment of numerous leaders. “We never want to live what we have lived in FIFA, CONCACAF, and Costa Rica,” said the leader in a press conference in Costa Rica, referencing the scandal known as “FIFAgate,” which exposed corruption in world football.
Recalling that case, which occurred before the start of his term at the helm of FIFA in 2016, Infantino said that international football “was much more than very bad — it was clinically dead” according to Tico Times in 2019.
Eduardo Li, the former president of the Costa Rican Football Federation, Fedefutbol https://www.fedefutbol.com/ was one of those arrested and sentenced in the United States for accepting bribes, as were the football leaders of other Central American countries.
“There is no going back. If someone still in Costa Rica, in Central America, in North America or the Caribbean believes they can come to football to cheat to get rich against the interests of football, we don’t want these people,” Infantino said.
Last week, Concacaf President and FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani sent best wishes to all four of the region's men's national teams – Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States – who are competing in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Also, a week ago, the Privy Council in London denied former FIFA vice president Jack Warner's request to be extradited to the United States to face trial on up to twelve counts of corruption allegedly committed during his time in office.
Costa Rica vs Spain World Cup Match yesterday: How bad was it?
Costa Rica got their World Cup campaign off to the worst possible start, as they suffered their heaviest-ever defeat at a World Cup, going down 7-0 to Spain at the Al Thumama Stadium. In what was one of the darkest days in Costa Rican football.
A horror half for La Sele, completely dominated by Spain, highlighted by the fact they completed 537 successful passes, the most recorded in a half of World Cup football.
Costa Ricans didn’t just lose by seven goals but were also the first nation since the 1990 World Cup not to register a single shot on target. A complete shame for all of us.
There is no shame in losing a game of football, but the meek and sluggish manner in which Costa Rica lost against Spain was unforgivable, a disaster class from start to finish in every department. There was no creativity going forward and utter shambles defensively; they didn’t even lay a glove on the Spaniards. And that is also corruption.
With the last three administrations, Luis G. Solís, Carlos Alvarado, and now Rodrigo Chaves, Costa Rica is falling apart, its democracy, its education, its tourism, its institutions, its economy, and now its soccer.
For the good of Costa Rica, we wish the government success, but the signs it has given, not fulfilling electoral promises, are more than worrying.San Jose Costa Rica November 24, 2022 rafaelvilagut@gmail.com. Despite the way the world is going with wars, crises, etc., we must be thankful for the good and especially today, which is largely celebrated on Thanksgiving Day.
“Anything can happen at the World Cup”. Fifa World Cup 2022: Track every match in Qatar. Hayya Hayya (Better Together) | FIFA World Cup 2022 Official Soundtrack, https://youtu.be/vyDjFVZgJoo.
How will the 32 countries fare at the biggest sporting event of the year? Follow their progress, and get the latest results, fixtures, and full schedule. ST Singapore, https://bit.ly/3Vq27xj.
Costa Rica Soccer Coach Suarez: “Anything can happen at the World Cup”. Minutes after Argentina’s bid crashed against Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica coach Luis Fernando Suarez Guzmán warned on Tuesday that this World Cup can hold many surprises. Tico Times, https://bit.ly/3i8RzEn.
Mixed feelings: our father was born in Madrid, and he married in Costa Rica in 1959 our mother was born in San José, Costa Rica, so today in the game CR-SP, our family will be the winner of whoever wins.
Spain is included in group E of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, along with Costa Rica, Germany, and Japan. Luis Enrique's (Martínez García) team will face the strongest team in pot 2, the Germans, a rival that everyone wanted to avoid.
The Legendary Life of Saint Maurus. Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022: Teacher's Day in Costa Rica. Parents need to know what's coming for their children. San José de Costa Rica, Central America.
Teachers' Day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers and may include celebrations to honor them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the community tone in education. This is the primary reason why countries celebrate this day on different dates, unlike many other International Days.
To commemorate the onomastic date (Saint Maurus born in Africa on January 1, 512) of Mauro Fernández Acuña (November 22nd,1843), a reformer of Costa Rican education.
Our Costa Rican great-grandfather, son of Nicaraguans, Jesús Trinidad Vega Noguera, was responsible for establishing Teacher's Day in Costa Rica, published in No. 87 of the Gazette Corresponding to 10-10-1915, for 11-22 of each year.
St. Maurus appeared in the late 9th century, supposedly composed by one of Maurus's 6th-century contemporaries. The bishop of Le Mans, in western France, sent a delegation asking Benedict for a group of monks to travel from Benedict's new abbey of Monte Cassino to establish monastic life in France according to the Rule of St. Benedict. The Life recounts the long journey of Maurus and his companions from Italy to France, accompanied by many adventures and miracles as Maurus is transformed from the youthful disciple of Benedict into a powerful, miracle-working holy man in his own right. According to this account, after the great pilgrimage to Francia, Maurus founded Glanfeuil Abbey as the first Benedictine monastery in Gaul. It was located on the south bank of the Loire river, a few miles east of Angers. The nave of its thirteenth-century church and some vineyards remain today
Parents NEED TO KNOW What's Coming For Their Child BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE — Yuval Noah Harari https://youtu.be/r7YDc8PQPDM.
The problem today is that parents don’t teach their children enough about how to deal with failure. Kids today, including parents, become so offended and upset even by everyone else’s differing opinions.
Education in Costa Rica is divided into 3 cycles: pre-education (before age 7), primary education (from 6-7 to 12-13), and secondary school (from 12-13 to 17-18), which leads to higher education.
Mauro Fernandez Acuña studied law at the University of Santo Tomás, from which he graduated in 1869. He reached several positions in the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica and was a university professor at the College of Lawyers. He was a delegate in the Costa Rican Constituent Assembly in 1880 and again in 1885, 1892, and 1902. He was President of the Congress, Minister of Property and Commerce, advisor of State, and Director of the National Bank of Costa Rica.
In 1885, he was named by President Bernardo Soto Alfaro as the head of the Secretariat of Public Instruction, where he initiated a reform in Costa Rican education, which triggered the closing of the University of Santo Tomás (at which he studied) and put more funding into Secondary Education. He helped found the Colegio Superior de Senoritas, Costa Rica's first secondary school for women.
Fernández was responsible for hiring his wife Ada's sister, Marian Le Cappellain, to found the Colegio Superior de Señoritas in 1888.
He died in San José on 16 July 1905. He was declared a Benemérito de la Patria, a title that was given to honorable Costa Rican persons in history, by Executive Decree 109 on 18 June 1955.
Costa Rica's education system was ranked 54th in the "Global Competitiveness Report 2013–14", and was described as of "high quality". The literacy rate in Costa Rica was 97.9%. It is 2 points over the average for Latin American and Caribbean countries.
There are five public universities in Costa Rica: Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), and National Technical University (UTN).
Public universities offer degree programs according to their specialty and by law, and manage their own central and regional campus. By Costa Rican law, two different public universities may not offer the same degree program.
Public universities publish a number of journals where students and academics can publish their research, and access international research publications freely. There are also several private universities: Texas Tech University - Costa Rica, Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (Costa Rica), Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), Universidad Adventista de Centroamérica (UNADECA), United Nations University for Peace, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas (UCIMED), Universidad de EARTH, Universidad de Iberoamérica (UNIBE), Universidad Católica de Costa Rica, Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica (UNEM), Universidad Santa Paula, Universidad Veritas, Universidad Cristiana del Sur, Universidad San Juan de la Cruz (SJDLC), Universidad Americana, Universidad Hispanoamericana, Universidad Fidélitas, Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica (UNEM).
Unfortunately, primary, secondary, and university education in Costa Rica does not stop getting worse every year.The last three rectors of the UCR, the best university in the region, Dr. Henning Jensen, Dr. Carlos Araya, and Dr. Gustavo Gutierrez, have been accused and investigated for corruption and multiple crimes.The judicial system in Costa Rica is so perverse that they have not been called to make a preliminary statement by the Public Ministry.
For years, politics has destroyed a good part of the foundations established with blood, sweat and tears by Don Mauro Fernández and hundreds of thousands of Costa Rican teachers like our great-grandfather Jesús Vega-Noguera (1869-1925), Higinio Vega Orozco (1892-1940), my grandparents Jesús Vega-Orozco (1908-1997), and La Niña Angélica Rodriguez-Arias (1908-2012) and her sisterLa Niña Mercedes "Ditas" (1911-1985) both graduated from the Colegio de Señoritas.
This year 2022, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is analyzing the complaint of several Venezuelan students whose rights have been recklessly violated by Costa Rica from 2015 to 2022.
Meanwhile, in our family we continue to educate people, siblings and cousins like Dr. Jorge Cháves-Camacho (1925-2002), Virginia López-Rodríguez, Flora León-Rodríguez, Elizabeth Longhi-Carvajal, my sister Emilia Vilagut-Vega, and the undersigned. San Jose Costa Rica, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022: Teacher's Day in Costa Rica, by MSc Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
All my life I’ve been waiting for this…a Williams is going to win. KING RICHARD – Official Trailer, Netflix https://youtu.be/BKP_0z52ZAw. Driven by a clear vision of their future and using unconventional methods, Richard has a plan that will take Venus and Serena Williams from the streets of Compton, California to the global stage as legendary icons. The profoundly moving film shows the power of family, perseverance, and unwavering belief as a means to achieve the impossible and impact the world.
Based on the true story that will inspire the world, Warner Bros. Pictures’ “King Richard follows the journey of Richard Williams, an undeterred father instrumental in raising two of the most extraordinarily gifted athletes of all time, who will end up changing the sport of tennis forever. Two-time Oscar nominee Will Smith (“Ali,” “The Pursuit of Happiness,” “Bad Boys for Life”) stars as Richard, under the direction of Reinaldo Marcus Green (“Monsters and Men”).
People who don't have a plan don't know where they're going.The first phase to be a doer and an achiever is having a plan and adjusting it from time to time. If you have never made a plan, I recommend you watch this movie and then practice it for 2023 to 2025, even to 2050. If you liked it, share this blog with people who can benefit from it.Have a happy and healthy start to the week.
How to Retire in seven Years Starting with $ cero: valid to start 2023! 41 days remain until the end of the year.
San Jose Costa Rica, November 20, 2022, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com. How to Retire in 7 Years Starting with $0, Mark Tibury, https://youtu.be/6RdXGUparU0.
Are you a doer, dreamer, or drifter? Spanish: ¿Cómo jubilarse en siete años desde $ cero?
Energy: an issue that trespasses borders, and continents. There are no known recent reports on the precarious energy situation in Central America. San Jose Costa Rica, November 19, 2022, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com. The future of energy in Europe | DW Documentary, https://youtu.be/0LG_eEqdcLs. When energy is extracted in one country to sell to another country, the benefit may not be equally distributed to the people of both countries. A sad example is Qatar and FIFA´s world cup beginning tomorrow.
According to the last DW documentary, energy is life - these days, Europeans are experiencing that first-hand. For far too long, Europe has depended on coal, oil, and gas imports from around the world. Not only have these fuels been driving the climate catastrophe, but they also serve as a dangerous bargaining chip for geopolitical interests.
Energy is essential worldwide -- and it is an unresolved problem. The war in Ukraine has shown just how dependent Europe and the world are on fossil fuels. This has weakened Europe and given export countries - frequently governed by authoritarian rule - a geopolitical means of leverage.
Now, war on the European continent has eclipsed concerns over the climate crisis. The increased consumption of harmful fuels is creating economic and political problems. Yet, against the odds, decarbonizing Europe remains a widespread priority, and alternative solutions are already available.
In France, Denmark and Ukraine, civil initiatives are taking energy supplies into their own hands and investing in the joint production of their own solar energy. In some cases, privately produced solar energy has proven much cheaper than what national solar energy providers offer.
These initiatives show that decentralizing energy production could be the key to transforming our energy supply. Poland still depends heavily on coal, but is offering retraining programs for employees in the mining business to help them transition to green jobs.
An estimated one million such green jobs are expected to be created in Europe by 2030. Green hydrogen, currently still in the development stages, could be a sustainable and profitable alternative for industries in the future. Across the continent, workable alternatives are emerging.
The current quick succession of political crises has now joined the ongoing climate crisis to show just how important it is to act now. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP27 came to its end yesterday from 6–18 November 2022.
The conference was sponsored by Coca-Cola. Several environmental campaigners suggested this was greenwashing, given the company's contribution to plastic pollution.
In a report published in October 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considers Africa to be the most vulnerable continent to the effects of climate change. More than 100 million Africans will in fact be threatened by global warming between now and 2030.
On 15 November 2022, Polish climate activists Dominika Lasota and Wiktoria Jędroszkowiak, and Ukrainian activists Svitlana Romanko, Valeria Bondarieva, and Viktoriya Ball protested during a session held by Russians, whose 150-person delegation included 33 fuel lobbyists.
The activists called out to the Russian delegation, stating that the Russians were war criminals who didn't have the right to be present at the conference and didn't deserve respect. Lasota called the Russians "despicable" (Polish: podłymi) and held up a banner "Fossil Fuels Kill".
The activists were forced out by security personnel. Justin Rowlatt of BBC News was also removed from the Russian session by security personnel after he asked the Russian delegation, "Do you plan to compensate for the damage made to the natural environment in Ukraine?".
There are no known recent reports on the precarious energy situation in Central America.
Much emphasis is placed on the impact of climate change in Central America, due to associated natural disasters, but it has not been studied, much less analyzed in its Legislative and Executive Powers, on the strong dependence of the Central American and Caribbean region on theUnited States, to cover the basic energy needs of the eight countries that make up the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System SG SICA established since 1991 with an area of 572,510 km2 (221,050 sq mi), and a population (est. 2020) of 60,495,553 inhabitants.
The most expensive and most controversial world cup in history. Human rights concerns hangover FIFA World Cup in Qatar | DW News, https://youtu.be/QyvO51KlS5c.
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champions are France, who won their second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
With less than two days to go until kickoff in the controversial World Cup in Qatar, the human rights situation in the emirate is still considered poor. There have been changes, but do they go far enough?
The situation of migrant workers in Qatar has attracted particularly intense criticism in recent years. Numerous journalists and non-governmental organizations have traveled to the country, documenting the sometimes hellish living and working conditions in shelters and on construction sites.
Since it was announced that Qatar was going to be the country chosen to host the 2022 World Cup, there have been countless examples of news and comments from celebrities who have hit out at FIFA's choice and have blamed the organization for giving more importance to their own monetary gain than to human rights.
The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over about a month. The host nation(s) automatically qualify.
As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, twenty-one final tournaments have been held and a total of 79 national teams have competed. The trophy has been won by eight national teams. Brazil has won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France, and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain, with one title each.
Costa Rica was forced to cancel the World Cup warm-up friendly with Iraq in Basra after the agreement not to stamp passports wasn't honored at the border with Kuwait.
San José Costa Rica, November 16, 2022. Controtempo 2025, Silversea's World Cruise https://youtu.be/v3e40853JTU.
Shortly before entering the university in Caracas, the high school graduates of the Colegio Instituto Escuela went on a cruise in the Caribbean, even though it was not the first time I had taken a cruise in the Caribbean, that was the most fun.
One of the most exciting experiences of my entire life was arriving in New York City on a cruise ship, accompanied by my good friends José Guillermo and Andrés Hamilton.
The world of travel clubs has changed and evolved just like the city ships that ply all the seas and oceans, and especially the segment of luxury cruises.
At the invitation of good friends from Andorra and Miami, before the pandemic, I started a project with the largest travel club in the universe, and I named it "Los Caballitos de Mar" or SeaHorses Club.
As part of the project I wrote my first four Kindle-publishing ebooks about the wonderful world of luxury and super luxury cruises like the ship in the 2025 video above: 136 days of glamor to celebrate life.
When you do a job well done, then you always reap, it can be writing a book or a song or starting a project in the network industry like inCruises.
Every week I receive good news about the expansion of my luxury and super luxury travel network from incruises and its business partners, cruise lines, hotels, airlines.
It is possible to make the trip of your dreams with this business model in the global tourism industry, for more information write to ravilagut@ymail.com thank you very much.
Patron saint of the science of friendship and much more, Saint Albert the Great. San Jose Costa Rica, November 15, 2022 rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
He was known as Albert of Cologne and Albert of Teutonia, and various laudatory epithets were attached to his name, but Albertus Magnus, ‘Albert the Great', became common only in accounts of him written by the later scholastics.
Albert was probably educated principally at the University of Padua, where he received instruction in Aristotle's writings. A late account by Rudolph de Novamagia refers to Albertus' encounter with the Blessed Virgin Mary, who convinced him to enter Holy Orders. In 1223 (or 1229) he became a member of the Dominican Order, and studied theology at Bologna and elsewhere. Selected to fill the position of lecturer at Cologne, Germany, where the Dominicans had a house, he taught for several years there, as well as in Regensburg, Freiburg, Strasbourg, and Hildesheim.
During his first tenure as a lecturer at Cologne, Albert wrote his Summa de Bono after a discussion with Philip the Chancellor concerning the transcendental properties of being. In 1245, Albert became a master of theology under Gueric of Saint-Quentin, the first German Dominican to achieve this distinction. Following this turn of events, Albert was able to teach theology at the University of Paris as a full-time professor, holding the seat of the Chair of Theology at the College of St. James. During this time Thomas Aquinas began to study under Albertus.
Albert was a scientist, philosopher, astrologer, theologian, spiritual writer, ecumenist, and diplomat. Under the auspices of Humbert of Romans, Albert molded the curriculum of studies for all Dominican students, introduced Aristotle to the classroom, and probed the work of Neoplatonists, such as Plotinus.
It was the thirty years of work done by Thomas of Aquinas and himself that allowed for the inclusion of Aristotelian study in the curriculum of Dominican schools.
Albert was beatified in 1622. He was canonized and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 December 1931 by Pope Pius XI and the patron saint of natural scientists in 1941. St. Albert's feast day is November 15.
St. Albert the Great (15 November), https://youtu.be/LtLYkyyCM78. Albert's writings collected in 1899 went into thirty-eight volumes. These displayed his prolific habits and encyclopedic knowledge of topics such as logic, theology, botany, geography, astronomy, astrology, mineralogy, alchemy, zoology, physiology, phrenology, justice, law, friendship, and love. He digested, interpreted, and systematized the whole of Aristotle's works, gleaned from the Latin translations and notes of the Arabian commentators, in accordance with Church doctrine. Most modern knowledge of Aristotle was preserved and presented by Albert.
Albert mentions friendship in his work, De Bono, as well as presenting his ideals and morals of friendship at the very beginning of Tractatus II. Later in his life, he published Super Ethica. With his development of friendship throughout his work, it is evident that friendship ideals and morals took relevance as his life went on. Albert comments on Aristotle's view of friendship with a quote from Cicero, who writes, "friendship is nothing other than the harmony between things divine and human, with goodwill and love". Albert agrees with this commentary but he also adds in harmony or agreement. Albert calls this harmony, consensio, itself a certain kind of movement within the human spirit. Albert fully agrees with Aristotle in the sense that friendship is a virtue. Albert relates the inherent metaphysical contentedness between friendship and moral goodness. Albert describes several levels of goodness; the useful (utile), the pleasurable (delectabile), and the authentic or unqualified good (honestum). Then in turn there are three levels of friendship based on each of those levels, namely friendship based on usefulness (amicitia utilis), friendship based on pleasure (amicitia delectabilis), and friendship rooted in unqualified goodness (amicitia honesti; amicitia quae fundatur super honestum).
By MSc Rafael Alberto Magno Vilagut i Vega Martín y Rodríguez en San José de Costa Rica, día de la Ciencia y de la Amistad.
Turtle symbolism and meanings include longevity, perseverance, steadfastness, protection, retreat, healing, tranquility, the Earth, and transformation. Today we share in this space the wonderful world of turtles, and the experience from a YouTuber, and Tico times. Costa Rica's leading English-language newspaper since 1956, featuring breaking news, regional news, travel, business, sports, entertainment and real estate.
The arrival of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the Ostional National Wildlife Refuge is typical during November. Hundreds of turtles lay their eggs in Ostional’s dark sand.
The Ostional Wildlife Refuge was created in 1984 to protect the animals from poachers known for stealing turtle eggs for commercial purposes. It covers approximately 238 hectares of protected land, including 15 km of beach territory.
It is in the Nicoya Peninsula, about 50 km from Nicoya (city) and a few kilometers away from Nosara. “Arribadas” (turtle arrivals), which is how this phenomenon is commonly known, often occur during September, October, and November.
This mesmerizing event can be seen on three beaches in the northern Pacific of the country Nancite in Santa Rosa National Park, Corozalito, and Ostional Refuge, where the largest number of turtles arrive. It is the second most important place in the world for the protection and nesting of the species.
“Historically, in the September, October, and November arrivals, over a hundred thousand turtles can arrive in one night; however, it is impossible to know the exact number. In fact, last year, we recorded more than 219,000 turtles arriving at Ostional. A similar number would be expected for this month, but it is only an estimate,” noted Andres Jimenez, who works at Ostional.
Given the importance of turtle conservation and the aim of protecting these animals, Ostional beach restricts tourist access. Visitors are allowed if a local guide accompanies them. Nonetheless, no further activities are permitted at the beach, and once the watching tour is over, the visitor must leave.
SINAC also reminded the population that extracting eggs without authorization “will be criminally prosecuted before the corresponding authorities.”
Reservations should be made before arriving at Ostional to ensure there are available guides. Visitors are encouraged to follow the instructions of the SINAC Park Rangers, the beach guards of the Ostional Development Association (ADIO), and community guides.
SINAC also provided the following official list of accredited guides to coordinate the details of tours and visits, which can be found here, Turtle Nesting at Costa Rica’s Ostional Wildlife Refuge https://bit.ly/3UzRp78. San Jose COSTA RICA, Sunday, November 13th, 2022, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
Video one.Costa Rica: Venezuelan Victims University of Costa Rica (UCR) vs Judiciary, Judge Hugo Porter does not admit an appeal.https://youtu.be/Vx5ytrkgZnQ.
The extremely high popularity enjoyed by the government of Costa Rica began to deteriorate to the extent that ordinary citizens must survive in a more corrupt, more expensive, more insecure, more polluted country, with the worst roads and road system in all of Latin America.
Venezuelan students in Costa Rica University are the most recent victims of the unfair Judicial System, and of the National Council of Rectors, CONARE since 2015, when the UCR Dr. Rector Henning Jensen Pennington does not observe or comply LAW 3740, a current law sheltered by an absurd unconstitutional and illegal university autonomy.
The Ombudsman's Office and the Foreign Ministry gave a criterion back in 2016 that favored Venezuelan university students and forced the University of Costa Rica to once again apply the Law known as the Cultural Agreement between the Republics of Costa Rica and Venezuela.Committing the crime of perjury before the radio and TV cameras and the judges, Rector Jensen of the UCR assured in 2017 that from the UCR they were within the framework of the Law, but it was not true. The third criminal cassation chamber of the Costa Rican supreme court of justice filed on November 11, 2022, revised the last appeal in the Costa Rican justice in a resolution not accepted by any of the hundreds of Venezuelan student's families offended, aggrieved and victims of the Government of Costa Rica whose head of state is Dr. Rodrigo Chaves Robles @RodrigoChavesR since May 2022.
In six months of misgovernment, with high inflation, the President of Costa Rica has not been able to fulfill any of the electoral promises of combat rampant corruption in Costa Rica,lowering fuel prices at the pump, lowering the price of food, providing drinking water to all Costa Ricans, and worse of all All of its decrees was to indefinitely postpone a European standard in force since 2014 in the European Union, EURO 6 which ensures air quality against pollutants emitted by combustion vehicles.
Children and the elderly in Costa Rica are confined in intensive care not because of COVID-19 or for known reasons, but probably because of the very poor quality of the air due to the toxic carcinogenic emissions present in vehicle fumes.
In the short period of government in 2022 of the new Social Democratic Progress party, 17+ criminal investigations have accumulated in the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic against president Rodrigo Chaves and an investigation in the process of admission to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR Petition 0000071471 file P-1541-22 country COSTA RICA, August 22 and 23, 2022.
Social peace, full democracy, and the welfare state of Costa Ricans, thousands of American, Canadian, and European residents are hanging by the thread of a needle.
THE GOVERNMENT OF COSTA RICA is not RESPECTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF VENEZUELAN STUDENTS in its territory, nor of the higher education students in the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF RECTORS; CONARE, nor in the UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA (UCR), which contradicts the RULE OF LAW THAT SHOULD PREVAIL.
The newly appointed President of the Judicial Power of Costa Rica MAGISTRATE ORLANDO AGUIRRE GOMEZ @PoderJudicialCR and Attorney General Carlo Díaz @FiscaliaCR have a lot of work to do.
Video two.Costa Rica University (UCR) ceased to apply an agreement that exempts "kids-Chamos-Venezuelans" from enrollment in the radio program La Doble Tracción, https://youtu.be/JSkqoivUgVc.
Within the framework of the meeting of the United Nations COP27, and the discussion of Euro 7 in the European Union, individuals interested in knowing more about what is happening in Costa Rica against Venezuelan student's Human Rights may contact the office of the Presidential House, Dr. Rodrigo Chaves by mail despacho.presidente@presidencia.go.cr or by phone +506 2207-9252.
For Happy and Healthy, San José Costa Rica, November Saturday 12th, 2022, by Rafael A. Vilagut, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
Costa Rica´s RECOPE State oil company: Management has work to do here.
By Rafael A. Vilagut, twitter @vilagutr
The Costa Rican Oil Refinery (RECOPE), once considered the largest company in Central America, with almost 60 years of existence, focuses its operations on refining, importing, and distributing the fuels demanded by Costa Rica, a mission entrusted to it since its creation in 1963, and which it retained after its nationalization in 1974.
To fulfill its mission and vision, RECOPE has built the National Fuel System, made up of the oil dock, located in Moín, Limón, Caribbean area, where shipments of raw materials are received; the pipeline, a unique complex in Central America, through which the product is pumped from Moín to Barranca in Puntarenas, crossing practically the entire country from east to west, being the safest and most economical means for transferring clean fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels; as well as four distribution, sale and storage facilities, which are interconnected through pipeline lines.
The facility with the greatest commercial and operational activity is located in Moín, where there was the refining plant (until 2011), the largest storage park in the country, and the product pumping station towards the central plateau. They are followed by the terminals of El Alto de Ochomogo in Cartago, La Garita in Alajuela, and Barranca in Puntarenas. It also has facilities for the supply of fuel to aircraft at the international airports Juan Santamaría Alajuela, and Daniel Oduber in Liberia, as well as at the Tobías Bolaños in Pavas, San José and at the Limón Airport. The pumping stations are in Moín, Siquirres, Turrialba, and El Alto de Ochomogo.
The bad administrations that the company has had in its last eight years are reflected in the outdated information on Wikipedia and on the misleading company's institutional page as of the date of this publication https://www.recope.go.cr/.
With the new administration of President Rodrigo Chaves Robles, far from improving things have worsened by putting a lawyer in the presidency and a Board of Directors, who lack the attestations of trading, marketing, project management, shipping, and refining economy.
Executive President´s Refinadora Costarricense de Petroleo.
2022 - 2026 Lic. José Manuel Quesada Espinoza.
2018 - 2022 Alejandro Muñoz Villalobos (According to Wikipedia, November 11, 2022).
2014 - 2018 Ing. Sara Salazar Badilla, by far the worst in history.
2013 - 2013 Econ, Litleton Bolton Jones.
2010 - 2014 Jorge Villalobos Clare.
2006 - 2010 José León Desanti Montero. The energy, environmental and health security of five million Costa Ricans is in question, especially with the measures taken in July 2022, where the quality standards of refining products imported that had to be homologated to the old European standard Euro 6 (2014) were postponed indefinitely.
Recope´s Board of Directors 2022-2026. Juan Manuel Quesada Espinoza Rolando Guido Sáenz Sandra Gallegos Ayala José Alberto Carpio Solano Liseth Hernández Cordero Mihaela Dobrinescu Dobrinescu Gerardo Araya Naranjo
Within the framework of the meeting of the United Nations COP27, and the discussion of Euro 7 in the European Union, individuals interested in knowing more about what is happening in the Costa Rica refinery and the measures to protect air, water and against climate change can contact the office of the Presidential House, Dr. Rodrigo Chaves by mail despacho.presidente@presidencia.go.cr or by phone +506 2207-9252.
Bitcoin (BTC) is on sale:Crypto Market Drops Over $100 Billion Overnight. Crypto is going to come out the other side of this, says Blockchain Association executive director, https://youtu.be/T96mj5EAmIU.
Date
BTC Open
BTC High
BTC Low
BTC Close
BTC Volume
BTC Market Cap
Nov 09
$ 18,543.76
$ 18,590.46
$ 15,682.69
$ 15,880.78
$ 102,905,151,606
$ 304,958,504,278
Nov 08
$ 20,600.67
$ 20,664.61
$ 17,603.54
$ 18,541.27
$ 118,992,465,607
$ 356,030,188,153
Nov 07
$ 20,924.62
$ 21,053.25
$ 20,489.97
$ 20,602.82
$ 53,510,852,236
$ 395,596,352,770
Crypto Fear & Greed Index drops from fear (29) to extreme fear (22), yesterday.
Crypto chaos continues as market drops over $100 billion overnight according to Decrypt. Amid the collapse of FTX exchange, leading cryptocurrencies in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, Polkadot, and Solana have continued to nosedive.
Video the ‘CNBC Special: Taking stock’, Kristen Smith, Blockchain Association executive director, joins Eamon Javers to discuss the drama surrounding the abandoned FTX-Binance deal and the impact it’s had on the cryptocurrency markets in the last three days.
In these uncertain times, with the war in Ukraine, unresolved pandemic, supply chain chaos, inflation, and high-interest rates, strong US dollar, the best advice this blog can give to our family and friends is to consult a goodindependent financial adviser at least four times a year.
Every day more foreigners find a place to establish their residence in the Costa Rican countryside and cities due to the advantages of the country, which are much greater than the few disadvantages, such as the high cost of living. From a series of episodes we are going to dedicate today to the place where we recently moved our office very close to the Chamber of Industries, and the PwC auditing firm in the neighborhood of Los Yoses.
The Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica is the institution that has represented the country's industrial sector since 1943.His leadership in the business sector has allowed high levels of excellence in search of better conditions not only for the industrial sector but also for thousands of Costa Ricans.
The Los Yoses neighborhood, east of San José, is an open-air museum that exhibits dozens of modernist buildings built in Costa Rica after 1950 by the first generation of "pure architects", since the previous professionals were engineers with an emphasis on architecture.
Montealegre family, Mariano Montealegre Bustamante was one of the most enthusiastic pioneers of coffee cultivation in Costa Rica.He was married to Gerónima de los Ángeles Fernández Chacón.
Every year he planted more blocks of land and invested large sums in warehouses and machinery to pack the grain into sacks.The house of the Montealegre Bustamante Family was located in the center of the Josephine capital, on the south west corner of Ave. Central and Calle 2, the famous former corner of Monumental.His neighbors mistakenly believed that his obsession with coffee would end up ruining him, but the opposite happened, strengthening his fortune.
Gerónima Montealegre Fernández de Carranza Ramírez was First Lady of Costa Rica and wife of Temporary Head of State Bruno Carranza. She was born in San José on October 30, 1823 to her parents Mariano Montealegre Bustamante and Gerónima Fernández Chacón, and was sister of President José María Montealegre Fernández, Mariano Montealegre Fernández great coffee entrepreneur, Francisco Montealegre Fernández, and 8 more siblings.
Barrio Los Yoses was a coffee farm owned by José Pablo Francisco Montealegre Gallegos grandson of the coffee king Mariano Montealegre Bustamante.It was called that because it was abundant in yos, a kind of tree that was planted there to give shade to the coffee trees.When Mr. Francisco Montealegre died in 1943, his descendants decided to urbanize those ten blocks. The Montealegre family abandoned politics and focused on business in the 20th century. The Alonso family is also well known in Los Yoses, Guayabos de Curridabat, and Escazú. Auto Mercado S.A. is a family business with 100% Costa Rican capital. In 1917, Don Guillermo Alonso Rodríguez settled in Costa Rica, from Spain, together with his wife, Doña Victoria Matanzo. During the first decades of that century, Mr. Alonso established several retail businesses in the capital, San José, such as La Vieja Lyra, La Fortuna, La Lonja and, in 1932, the Bar Azul. From offering bar and cafeteria services, it became specialized in the sale of national and imported groceries. Under the innovative concept of the “auto service” era, the first Auto Mercado was opened in Los Yoses in 1960, aimed at a select clientele and with high-quality products. The chain had only one supermarket until 1970, when the second point of sale, known as Auto Mercado Centro, was opened.
In 1948, Enrique Maroto Montejo (1920-2001) returned to his homeland with a prestigious degree under his arm and a baggage of ideas to build the first modern buildings in the international style, but adapted to the topographical and climatic conditions of Costa Rica. Much of his work and legacy remains in Los Yoses.
In this elegant and central neighborhood of Barrio Los Yoses, several mansions with history are for sale, if you want to see them and a service like you have never experienced before, please contact the Lawyer and Notary Lic. Ulises A. Obregón, a specialist in Title Insurance since 2004, (First Costa Rican Title & Trust S. A) and the Spanish historian Dr. RafaelA. Vilagut, who started Remax and a Dutch company in real estate company in Barcelona in 2003, has also since the 1970s Rafael worked together with his father Emilio on real estate developments in Central and South America.
