THE vast majority of municipal budgetsgo toward salaries, services andmaterials. Only 4% goes to maintainingand building streets, bridges, aqueductsand water-treatment plants, the daily LaNación...
COSTA Rican soccer players, TV personalitiesand even politicians will strut thecatwalk next week dressed in the finest bydesigner Oscar de la Renta in a...
WHILE theGrand Finals ofthe nine-month-longannual countrywidetournamentCircuito Nacionalde Surfwent off last weekendat Playa Hermosa’sLa Curva,on the centralPacific coast, in afairly typical fashion,the event was,in essence,...
COFFEE hascontributed to thecountry’s cultureand economy since1820, when landownersbegan plantingit and exportingit to Europe. Duringthe heyday ofcoffee production,in the 1980s, coffeefarmers here receivednearly $300for...
IT was Sunday morning, and the soundof church bells was muddled by a combustiblegrowl and the kind of rhythmichonking usually reserved for soccer wins.A...
KEEP your eyespeeled and your earsopen for a radioshow called “Pelandoel Ojo” (Peelingthe Eye.) You’rebound to hear it emanatingfrom buses,taxis, cars, shopsand homes betweenthe...
DAYS after the calm on Monteverde’ssurface was rippled by abloody bank robbery, 28-hour hostagecrisis and showdown with the police,members of the mountain communityand haven...
SHOPPERS at Auto Mercadogrocery stores will be given theopportunity to help some of SanJosé’s neediest children and familieswhen they make their purchases nowthrough July...
HAVE you ever flown a crocodile? Ifyour answer is no, you should visit BahíaMontereina, six kilometers north of Sámara,on the Pacific coast of Guanacaste.Circling...
