Araya Fires Hundreds of Hired Vote Counters After Second Place Election Finish

Paid-off TSE employees said they confused PLN with PAC, PUSC, and PASE SAN JOSE — Costa Rica’s unemployment rate shot up an entire percentage this week after Presidential candidate Johnny Araya fired hundreds of TSE workers he’d employed to rig the Feb. 2 elections. Araya, who finished a surprise second in the presidential voting to…

Mae of the Week: January 16

This week’s M.O.T.W. is Costa Rican presidential candidate Luis Guillermo Solis. Solis is from Montes de Oca and is getting absolutely demolished in the Presidential polls despite being by far the most educated. Solis was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan while leading candidate Johnny Araya can neither spell Fulbright nor Michigan, which…