Costa Rican academic publishing has suffered from the decline and near fall of Educa. This leaves a significant gap in that there is now no organ dedicated to the publication of pan-Central American works. With Educa's diminution, the Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica is the principal academic publisher in the country. And finally, they have announced a paper bound edition of Historia de Centroamericana, edited by Robert Carmack, to be priced ca. Since establishing itself in Costa Rica in 1979, DEI has published more than 250 titles and features the work of the region's most important liberation theologians, including Franz J. Hinkelammert and Fernando Mires.
Ecology is another important focus.
Their 1994 catalog shows nine titles in the works, three of which have now been published. IICA has its offices in the Coronado section, just out of town, and continues its publishing in the areas of technical agriculture and rural studies. The books are now hard to find amidst four floors of electrical appliances, Lego, gifts, and clothes. Internet training, two sessions, was attended by a mixture of members of the SSRC workshop and local librarians, some thirty in all. I enclose a copy of the SSRC participants who, as in San Salvador, hail from a variety of Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.