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This thing that i am really suspicious about is why was a Nicaraguan army, so close to Costa Rica a nation know for not having a standing military. I love Costa
by kls 16y ago
This thing that i am really suspicious about is why was a Nicaraguan army, so close to Costa Rica a nation know for not having a standing military. I love Costa Rica for the exact reason that they don't have a standing military, they really do have a live and let live philosophy. I have many times thought about "screw it all, I am moving to Costa Rica" but it is thing like this that really concern me about doing so. Latin America has been known for it's eternal left / right struggle and Costa Rica just seems too be to easy a victim if the wrong people come to power in one of it's neighbors.
- icegreentea 16y agoMaybe that border area is a good training area? Training areas are typically kinda hard to find. Have to find a place where people won't mind alot of people with guns running around and possibly blowing stuff up. You'll also recall a bit ago, a Swiss Army company accidentally waltzhed into Lichtenstein, or when some British Marines missed the Gilbrator and landed in Spain instead on a exercise. Sometimes mistakes do happen.
- kls 16y agoSure, there could be a legitimate reason, but given Latin America's history, I would not blame the Costa Ricans for being suspicious.
- arnoldoMuller 16y agoIf you count the number of people killed by wars in Europe or North America in the 20th century, Latin America is the place to be. Latin America has numerous social problems but the number of conflicts (and their magnitude) between countries has been traditionally very small.
- kls 16y agoI am less concerned with being killed and more concerned with living under a dictatorship. I mean that would be the antithesis of the reasons I would move to Costa Rica in the first place. South America has hand it's share of them, and the disease that causes the symptom still exists.