It’s April 1st, but here in Costa Rica, it’s not April Fool’s Day. Everyone that received internet messages about being Obama’s cousin is very confused. In Costa Rica, as in Spain and the rest of Latin America, gullible people are targeted on December 28th, el Día de los Inocentes. People play jokes on each other, and the media are allowed to deliver fake news stories. Several years ago, on December 28th, a popular radio station announced that the planets were aligned so there was less gravity on Earth. They encouraged people to jump and experience this once-in-a-lifetime sensation. People (not real listeners) started calling the station, saying they jumped so high, they broke the ceiling. That day, many Costa Ricans were jumping up and down; it was a memorable prank people still laugh today as they remember it. But the history of el Día de los Inocentes is less comical. December 28th is the commemoration of King Herod’s massacre of babies during biblical times.