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By Christopher Howard*
Special to A.M. Costa Rica

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated Sunday by many people throughout the world. In Spanish-speaking countries the holiday is called Día de los Enamorados. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their feelings for each other by sending Valentine's cards, flowers, chocolates or offering related gifts.

Below you will find an assortment of words and phrases related to the language of love. Enjoy!

Acaramelados – lovey dovey
Amor – love
Amor a primera vista – love at first sight
Amor juvenil – puppy love
Amorío – a love affair
Adventura amorosa – a love affair
Casarse detrás de la iglesia – to elope
Comprometerse – to become engaged
Compromiso - engagement
Cupidito – Cupid
Dar el sí – to get married
Deshojando la margarita - “Does she love me,
      she loves me not, etc. ?
Dejar plantado – to stand someone up
Descorazonado – heartbroken
Desenamorarse – to fall out of love
Enamorarse – to fall in love
Echar el caballo – to make a pass at or to hit
      on (Costa Rica)
Echar el cuento -  to make a pass at or to hit
      on (Costa Rica)
Echar los perros – make a pass at or to hit
       on (Costa Rica)
Echar el ruco – make a pass at or to hit
       on (Costa Rica)
Echarse la soga al cuello  – to get married
Enamoradamente - lovingly
Enamoradizo – inclined to fall in love
Enamorar – to make someone fall in love with 
      you or to enamour
Enculado – head over heels in love (Costa
       Rica/vulgar)
Encularse – to fall in love (vulgar)
Engañar – to cheat on your mate
Estar loco or loca por alguien - to be crazy about
        someone
Felizmente divorciado/a – happily divorced
Flechar – to sweep one off the feet (love)
Juntados – to live together
Matricidio – marriage (matricide) sarcastically
Me atrae – I’m attracted to you
Me cae bien – I like you
Media naranja – one’s other half
Morirse por alguien – to be dying for someone
No hay amor sin dolor – no love without pain
No hay rosa sin espina – same as the last one
No hay amor sin interés – same as the last one
Perdidamente enamorado/a – lost in love
Pepeado/a - head over heels in love (Costa Rica)
Piropo – a flirtatious statement like “Dichosos los
        ojos que te ven” “Your a sight for sore eyes.”
Picaflor – playboy
Ponerle los cuernos – to cheat on a man
Rejuntarse – to shack up with someone
Romper or terminar con alguien – to break up
         with someone
Romper el compromiso – to break an engagement
Romper el corazón – to break someone’s heart
Ser infiel – to be unfaithful
Sonarle las campanas de la iglesia a alguien
        someone is going to get married
Templado or caliente - horny
Tener algo con alguien – to have a relationship
        with someone
Tener celos – to be jealous
Tórtolos – love birds
Traicionar – to betray
Usted es bonita - You are pretty
Usted es guapo – You are handsome

Humorous expressions about love:

Al gato viejo, ratón tierno – old geezers like
       sweet young things
Asaltacunas – cradle robber
Casarse con zeta -   instead of casarse (the correct
       word to get married) means to get hunted
       instead of married jokingly.
Como en el amor y en la guerra, todo se vale
       all is fair in love and war
Cuando de los cincuenta pases, no te cases
       don’t get married after 50
Dar vuelta – to cheat on one’s mate (Costa Rica)
Del amor al odio sólo hay un paso – one step
       from love to hate
El amor es ciego pero el matrimonio abre los
       ojos
– love is blind but marriage opens the
       eyes
El que casa por todo pasa – he who marries goes
       through a lot
Ella está con el hombre por el amor . . . por el
       amor del dinero
– She is with him for
       love . . . for the love of money
Gallina vieja hace buen caldo – an old hen makes
       a good broth
La luna hiel – a bad honeymoon
Ir a la guerra ni casar no se ha de aconsejar
       don’t get married or go to war
Ponerle los cuernos/cachos a alguien – to cheat
       on someone
Viejo verde – a guy who likes younger women

* Christopher Howard, who has a master's degree in linguistics and Spanish, is the author/publisher of the 16th edition of the perennial  bestselling  "The New Golden Door to Retirement and Living in Costa Rica," "Guide to Real Estate in Costa Rica" and the one-of-a-kind "Official Guide to Costa Rican Spanish." He also is a relocation and retirement expert who conducts custom and group retirement/relocation tours every month.  For information: www.liveincostarica.com. Articles similar to the above may be found at www.costaricaspanish.net



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The funeral for former president José Joaquín Trejos Fernández will be today at 11 a.m. in the Catedral Metropolitana.

It is a state funeral with many dignitaries expected to attend. Three days of national mourning have been decreed.

Trejos was president from 1966 to 1970. President Óscar Arias Sánchez said Thursday night that the Trejos administration was noted for its austerity.

The Trejos administration also put asphalt on the Interamericana highway from Cartago to the Panamá border and completed a road from San José to Limón. He also was a founder of Banco Popular.

Trejos also promoted the constitutional barrier that prevented a president from being re-elected. Not until 2005 did the Sala IV constitutional court throw out that change.

In private life Trejos was a university economics professor and administrator.


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member came here in 1951


By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Costa Rica Women's Club members were saddened by the death Feb. 8 of Lillian Iverson, one of the first members when
Ms. Iverson
Lillian Iverson
the club was founded 50 years ago.

Ms. Iverson, 82, came to Costa Rica as the bride of Rodrigo Masis, a Costa Rican architect, in 1951. She had two children, Daniel Masis, now of the Washington, D.C, area, and Katherine Masis of San José. The couple met when they both were students at the University of Southern California.

Ms. Iverson served as vice president
of the Women's Club in 1964 and was an unpublished writer. Her daughter said Thursday that she would be studying her mother's literary output to see if there are publishable items. Ms. Iverson was somewhat protective about her writings.

She did, however, found a writer's workshop that is associated with the Women's Club.

She also was a member of the Book Club and of Democrats Abroad.

Blaze destroys dwellings
in Pozos de Santa Ana


By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Fire believed started from a welder's torch ripped though a storage shed, two homes and a rooming house, leaving more than 20 persons homeless Thursday.

The blaze was in Pozos de Santa Ana. No one was hurt, but the flames took nearly all of the structures.

The welding was being done in a storage shed that contained clothing and other flammable items, said firemen.

Trucks came from Heredia, Pavas, Belén as well as Santa Ana. The blaze was reported at 8:40 a.m. and was controlled about a half hour later.

Residents of the dwellings managed to save what they could. Most of the items were electronics like television sets and stereos.

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Investigators move on two cases involving local mayors
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Not often do investigators raid the offices of two mayors on the same day.

That happened Thursday when prosecutors and agents of the Judicial Investigating Organization paid a very early morning visit to the mayor of the Municipalidad de Talamanca. Later in the morning other agents were taking documents from the mayor of Alajuela.

These appear to be two separate cases and unrelated to the detention of the mayor of Liberia a week ago.

The raid in Talamancaa involved the municipal offices and three homes in BriBri and Hone Creek, said the Poder Judicial.

The allegations are of corruption, misuse of public money and negotiations incompatible with the elected office.

The Poder Judicial said that the case involved the diversion of some 350 million colons, or about $630,000. Talamanca is in the southeast of the country. It has a high native population as well as several well-known beach resorts.
The mayor, Rugeli Morales Rodríguez, was detained when agents stopped his car at 4 a.m. He was reported to be en route to a morning meeting in San José. Agents said a short chase preceded the arrest.

Three municipal employees also were detained, said the Poder Judicial. Another person, believed to be the mayor's son, also was detained.

The mayor in Alajuela is Joyce Zücher, a well-known politician who has been a legislative deputy. The allegation there is abuse of authority. She was not detained, but agents sought documents connected with Comercializadora de Concreto y Asfalto S.A., which is constructing a cement plant in Tajo San Rafael.

The municipality quickly came out with a press release in which it said that municipal officials provided total cooperation to the agents and prosecutors. The search was at 8:30 a.m.  Luis Alonso Gutiérrez, the deputy mayor, was quoted as saying the search was a normal process that takes place whenever there is a complaint to the Ministerio Público, the nation's prosecutorial agency. Agents took away documents relating to the permissions for construction granted to the company.


The streets are alive with the sound of addiction
A cell to the left of me, a cell to the right of me.  I am standing at the bus stop next to the Hotel and Hospital Catolica trying to ignore the two women on their cell phones.  I have no book to distract me, and they are drowning out each other’s voices so I can’t even try to learn some Spanish. 

If they were talking to each other their voices would not be at that pitch.  If they were talking on their land phones at home, would they talk this long?  Is it that we are so busy that the only time we have to deal with many things in life or to chat, is enroute? Fortunately, when the bus arrived, both women were off their phones.

After buying a few things at the AutoMercado downtown, I caught the Sabana Cementerio bus across town.

It was election day, and the streets were crowded with pedestrians and with cars, cars driven just to be seen flying their partisan flags — and heard — honking their horns rhythmically or in counterpoint.  There was no way I was going to take a taxi in this stop-and-go traffic.

My bus driver had his radio on playing ranchera music loud enough for the back row to appreciate it. I was two seats behind him, and a young woman kitty corner from me was on her cell phone yelling in Chinese, trying to be heard over the music.  Soon the bus was full, not even standing room left.  There were more children than usual, and one of them was shrieking, just for the fun of it.  I looked at the crowded sidewalks.  Every tenth person was on a cell phone.  I just smiled, imagining a friend visiting from the States asking,  “How can you stand this?” 

Well, I guess I’m used to it.  And besides, I learned a long time ago that there seldom is anger or frustration or threat in any of the noise.  It is just people feeling free.

I sat back and relaxed and pulled out the paper on which I had written 25 of the new title suggestions for my column. I crossed off “Princess in Paradise.”  Flattering but hardly fitting.  I rather liked, “You Have Eminently Good Taste to be Reading my Column.”  The author of this suggestion pointed out the longer the title, the less I would have to write. My dogmatic self liked “Jo Says So.”
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“Ponderings from Pavas” is not quite accurate in its locale; “Musings of a Gringa” perhaps fits right now because I have been thinking lately about the psychology of cell phone communication and its extensions like text messaging, Facebook and Twittering.

My friend Alexis says a French study concludes that the addiction that has developed among users is different from other addictions like alcoholism, gambling, etc, which isolate the person from others. This addiction is to connect with others.  I’m not so sure.  Addictions can bring us into meaningless connection with others (drinking partners in a bar, a sex partner, or the person next to you at the roulette wheel).  I wonder if the connections made with the addiction to these modes of communication are any more meaningful

These are just “Musings from Costa Rica”  (Yes, another suggestion.)  

Perhaps all of this IS just progress, like the automobile or the telephone.  And just maybe the world IS getting more complicated, even in Costa Rica, and the only time people really have a chance to talk is on the road or they only have time to communicate 140 characters, meaningful or otherwise.

Whatever, as they say.  The noise downtown was nothing compared to the joyous racket that woke me up Sunday night.  I thought a street party was going on four stories below my window.  It turned out to be the celebration at the Hotel Crowne Plaza a half mile away — a celebration to welcome Laura Chincilla, the president-elect of Costa Rica.
 
And so you have “”Reflections of an Expat Gringa” otherwise known as a “Liberal, Progressive Democrat in Costa Rica.” (You think that’s a tad redundant?)



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Next two weekends are for the mules at Parrita festival

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

The country's national mule festival will run both weekends until Feb. 22 in the central pacific coast town of Parrita.

The festival involves more than mules. There is a queen contest, bullfighting, food booths, dances, parades and other typical events in local fiestas.

The Festival Nacional de las Mulas is organized by the Asociación para el Bienestar del Cantón de Parrita. Early residents of Parrita on the Pacific Coast used the mule as their primary work animal to plow fields and transport
their crops to market, organizers have said, so the tradition still runs strong.

The festival is an unabashed effort to lure Central Valley residents to Parrita. The organization notes that the area is one of spectacular beauty and there is ample accommodations.

The mule festival began with a single farmer holding heated races between his mules, and it has since evolved into the biggest tourist draw of the year for Parrita, which is between Jacó to the north, and Quepos to the south.

Those who attend might have a chance to ride a mule, too.



Agents await autopsy in case of girl, 12, buried in Paquera

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

A tragedy involving a February-December romance is playing out in the Nicoya Peninsula community of Paquera where the body of a 12-year-old girl was found in a shallow grave Thursday.

The girl had been missing since Tuesday when she went to clean a neighbor's home, said the Judicial Investigating Organization. The neighbor is the principal suspect in the case. He is Enrique Quirós Rojas, 71, a local agricultural worker.

Informal sources said that the couple have been involved, that the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia, the child welfare agency, had been alerted multiple times. The girl was supposed to travel to Puntarenas today for questioning and counseling, neighbors said.

The girl was identified by the last name of Delgado. Her
body was found near the man's home. He told officers where to find the body when he showed up at their office Thursday morning, agents said. Investigators visited him earlier in the week as they searched for the girl, who had been reported missing

The location is in Barrio Salinas in Paquera, which is well-known to tourists as the Nicoya side of the Puntarenas ferry.

There was no word on the cause of death, although murder is suspected, said prosecutors. There also is no word on the possible motives. An autopsy report is awaiting.

The girl's family lives nearby, so her activities were known to them. The parents allowed her to work as a house cleaner, prosecutors said. Neighbors said that the girl did not attend school.

The man was questioned in Cóbano Thursday afternoon.


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Pirated electrical products
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Pirates do not just target jeans and CDs. Also produced are fake electronic goods and devices of all kinds, most made in northern Asia, according to an organization that tried to fight this flood of mislabeled products.

The use of substandard, cheaper products that carry the trademark of a well-known company can be dangerous. That is the warning from the for Harmonization of Electrotechnical Standards of the Nations of the Americas. The organization will be meeting in San José March 8 to 11 at the Hotel Real Intercontinental.

Speakers will be experts from the United States, Canada,  México, Costa Rica, Colombia and Brazil, said an announcement.

Some nations have become major factories and storage places for pirated products of low quality that are sold for cut-rate prices, the organization said.

More than 75 percent of the fake products come from northern Asia, the organization said. Then the low-quality products are used, either knowingly or unknowingly, by contractors who then complete jobs and leave the customer vulnerable to electrical problems and failures.

Among the types of products are fuses, lamps, switches, breakers and all sorts of specialized items that come in what appears to be factory-provided packages, said the announcement.

One purpose of the conference here is to develop a framework so that the influx of fake products can be reduced, organizers said.


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Africanized bees do not mix
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Honeybees cannot live side-by-side with humans, thanks to their newly Africanized genes.

A woman in Villa Nueva de Quepos is dead today because bees managed to infiltrate her home and build a colony in the spaces in the dwelling's wall.

She is Clara Richette, a Canadian. Injured by multiple stings was William Marcell, a U.S. citizen. He is hospitalized. They both were at home Wednesday when for some reason the bees began to attack inside the home.

Africanized bees moved up from Brazil in the late 1960 and 1970s. Their aggressive behavior and survival skills allowed them to displace the more placid honeybees of European extraction. Africanized bees have no more venom than the European cousins, but they attack vigorously and in groups when they are triggered by the scents emitted by other bees stinging.

For years firemen have been destroying feral bee colonies in Costa Rica. A bee colony may have 400,000 members.

The colony in the home occupied by Ms. Richette and Marcell was in the wall. Presumably the bees had an outside exit and lived there for months or even years without incident.

The current strain of Africanized bees came into being as an experiment by a scientist in Manaus, Brazil. He crossbred imported African bees with the local honeybees. But then some queens escaped and set up feral colonies. The scientist wanted to increase the honey yield. European bees do not collect nectar well in tropical areas.

Honeybees are not native to the new world. The bees have moved as far north as the southern United States. They appear not to be able to endure harsh winters.

Latin beekeepers have learned to work with the Africanized bees and found that they could get an increased honey yield. For one thing, they usually put the bee hives on their own stands because vibrations from hives on the same platform can generate aggressive behavior, they found.

Some persons are allergic to bee stings, and can be killed by a few stings. But Africanized bee colonies will inflict thousands of stings. That can be a fatal amount.




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