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This comes from an admitted CR utter tyro who presumes no knowledge and I'm not trying to spread FUD. However I've been reading AM Costa Rica daily for 3 years and read Threads back to '04, and this crackdown just "feels" different. To paraphrase a poster in another thread, " In previous crackdowns, the ooMPahs were closed for 3 days, then open for business as usual. This time it's been longer." And looks more permanent. Maybe this is the Perfect Storm (1) powerful interests Tico and Gringo who want to restore and burnish the glory of Barrio Amon, have it be swank boutique hotels, art galleries, etc. for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Regional Corporate Manager in town for the day or on vacation (I believe that CAFTA will bring them), (2) the embarrassment of all this activity of what we do so close to downtown, (3) an accomplishment a city or national politician can point to in a re-election bid, (4) we've just gotten too big as a group (not us, I mean "sex tourists" in general), have gotten too much publicity to ignore.
Yes, what we do is legal and where we have done it has been tolerated because it was marginalized in a ghetto of sorts. OTOH, I can see us routed to a Zona Tolerancia on the Mexican model also.
Please, if I'm being a total wack job in this--I can take a slagging. But I've at least stimulated thinking I hope about what our future is here. Again, I'm not trying to spread Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt.
Oh, and about the perfectly legal hotels? Frequent Immigration raids and tough code enforcement might do them in. [u][/u]

So, the questions are the obvious ones--What's going to happen near-term and what's your thoughts on the future?

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I think some people are imagining that things "feel different".

The only reason they're being closed for longer is because the upgrades they have to perform to re-open take longer, and it takes time for an inspection to occur to re-open. That's it. Nothing sinister or conspiratorial.

ZB in particular has chosen to remain closed to perform more upgrades. The others will likely be open at the earliest abilit to do so.

Everything has been the same or better.

ZB girls at the Sportsmans yesterday and at the Del Rey today. Many willing to walk down the hill to Asia for 50 if you ask them nice.

Del Rey was full of ladies at lunch today. The "feeling" was one of desperation on the girls part. More girls than usual .

I think the reason why some of these girls worked at mps is because they don't like to stand around the DR for hours without work. Plus they are not used to cein so they will go quicker for less. I think this was rubbing off on the other girls . I hope anyway.

Nice Day.

That's exceptional news. I really hope this holds out until LD. As I've said before, I wouldn't care if any MP's were open as long as it stays the way you just reported. QBF might have a heart attack though...


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