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		<title>The lovely &amp; contested Rio San Juan: Erin on the radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months before this new conflict arose, I explored the beautiful and remote Rio San Juan area, writing about a riverside fishing lodge, a gay Borders Cafe  in a riverside town, and a new tourism initiative for the little-visited area sponsored by the Nicaraguan government.]]></description>
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		<title>Rio Frio story to appear in Best Women’s Travel Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My contribution to the anthology is an account of a trip up the Rio Frio, from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. There were just a few fellow passengers, one of whom was no longer among the living and whose mode of transport—a coffin—took up six seats on the rickety wooden boat.]]></description>
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		<title>No-Army celebration marred by border conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/12/no-army-celebration-marred-by-border-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as Costa Ricans celebrated the 62nd year of being a country without an army, President Laura Chinchilla announced plans to send more police to a disputed stretch of the Costa Rica – Nicaragua border. Six weeks ago, Nicaraguan troops occupied an island in the delta of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers that most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Ruta del Agua: tourism initiative to promote Nicaragua’s southern waterways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[el castillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ochomogo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio San Juan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navigating the Rio San Juan in Southern Nicaragua today, you won’t see much traffic. There are the local fisherman, a few sportfishermen, and the small boats that ferry local residents from very isolated towns to marginally less isolated ones. But in centuries past, the river was a busy thoroughfare. Spanish conquistadors sailed upriver to Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gay Border’s Café in the Nicaraguan jungle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took a boat up the Rio San Juan to El Castillo, which is both an old Spanish fort and an appealing small town with many of its houses built out over the river. The first thing we saw when we disembarked was a sign that said “Borders Coffee” with an arrow pointing up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new agouti: woodcarving in the Solentiname Islands</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/my-new-agouti-woodcarving-in-the-solentiname-islands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/my-new-agouti-woodcarving-in-the-solentiname-islands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the artisan cooperative on San Fernando Island, I fell in love with a pint-sized agouti. An oversized rodent that also goes by the names tepesquintle and guardatinaja, the agouti is cuter than its bloodline implies. I liked the paintings, was intrigued by the painted birds and turtles, but the unpainted agouti, of cedar (not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tarpon fishing and caiman wrangling at Esquina del Lago</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our week or so in Nicaragua we were based at Esquina del Lago, a river lodge with no hot water but plenty of rickety charm. Lodge owner Phillipe Tisseaux met us at immigration in San Carlos, then whisked us across the water. It was dark when we arrived at the lodge, and the life-sized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3000 wooden birds a month in Solentiname</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/3000-wooden-birds-a-month-in-solentiname/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/3000-wooden-birds-a-month-in-solentiname/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I wrote about radical poet-priest Ernesto Cardinal coming to the remote Solentiname Islands in the 1970s and fostering a climate of political activism and creativity that still endures today.  I posted the oil-on-canvas paintings of the islands in that last post. The islands are also known for their wood carvings. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The naive paintings of Nicaragua&#8217;s Solentiname Islands</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/the-naive-paintings-of-nicaraguas-solentiname-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1976 Sandinista poet-priest Ernesto Cardinal came to the remote Solentiname islands in southern Nicaragua. He found a naturally artistic people who weren&#8217;t  expressing their creativity, and a devout people who&#8217;d never thought Catholicism could speak directly to the conditions of their daily lives. &#8220;Before he came,&#8221; said Esparanza Guevara, who showed me around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast boat to Nicaragua: Just us, the crew, and a dead man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hay un problemita,” the boat captain says. There’s a little problem.

How little? I wonder.

“Hay un difunto,” he says in a low voice. “There’s a deceased person.”]]></description>
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