Ronald N. Harpelle is a historian and filmmaker. He is the author of "The West Indians of Costa Rica" and has written extensively about the West Indian diaspora in Central America. Ron Harpelle is also the director of "In Security", a documentary film about barbed wire and boundaries, and the co-director of "Banana Split", a documentary about Canada s favourite fruit. With Bruce Muirhead he appeared in [http: //vimeo.com/16696833/ "Citoyens du Monde/Citizens of the World"], done for TFO.