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Caribbean Costa Rica has been deliberately starved for Government funding, developmental subsidies for businesses, etc. since forever. Institutionalized racism is the reason. After they helped build the railroads, the hope was they'd go back to Jamaica or whereverthefuck. Any good history of CR is quite plain about this--As late as the late-50's, Black Ticos were restricted in their movements, etc--not just custom--it was the law. Not a part of their history they like to trumpet but racism is alive and well in Ticoland, and that colors (pun intended) their perceptions and the impressions given to folks from elsewhere. Deserved or not, they also have attitude about Dominicans who tend to be more Black-mulatto than the other Latins here.
Believe me, I'd love to be proved wrong about this but don't think I will be.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

You are right about the racial bias. The locals love to tout their tolerance but realities don’t quite match the rhetoric or history.

I once read, not sure if I could find it again but I think so, that Black Costa Ricans from Limon were not allowed to spend the night in the Central Valley (Cartago to San Jose to Alajuela) until the 1950s. That is essentiall the same information that you had Jazzbo.