Direct Trade Costa Rica

06/12/2019

VIP - City Bus, Coffee & Culture Tour

22/04/2019

08/06/2018

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35 new photos · Album by Orion Reid

23/03/2018

23/03/2018

23/03/2018

23/03/2018

This is a new stage of life for my family and I! For over twenty five years of my career I had made the corporate global monster richer and richer. I did everything to get ahead. As long as I got mine I was happy. After about the fifth time of being used up and spit out by a corporation I was ready to reinvent myself and some how return to my comfortable corporate job. But it seems my destiny was to champion a new cause. It was now time to enlist myself in the small army of family run, small and medium sized companies. They needed me and I needed them. I knew the corporate beast better than anyone. Both in Costa Rica and abroad. I new the difficult task that faced these family run companies. Our corrupt governments being bought and paid for by international lobbying groups. It was time to help and to be helped. This Facebook account was opened to inform on local business in Costa Rica with the intent to inform you on your options as tourists to our beautiful country. Corrupt corporations will try to sell you there options by using fear factor, unfair price fixing and exclusive contracts that shut out the local market. In most cases the local products and services are less expensive, safer and a more personalized experiences. I am hear to unite these family run businesses so they can work together under one marketing flag to achieve their goals. Not a cooperative but a group of individual family run businesses cooperating. Its the only way to have a fighting chance against the corporate onslaught. Direct Trade is fair trade! Direct Trade was created to help raise families, not raise corporate profit!

Cordial regards,

Orion Serapio Reid Stoddard

affectionately known as "Big O"

Born and raised in Costa Rica

Parents xpats from USA
former Peace Corp volunteers.