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Monthly Archives: November, 2008

Chinese President To Visit Costa Rica

Chinese President Hu Jintao will visit Costa Rica this month in his first trip to Latin America, a sign of increasing closeness between the...

Best Café-Grower Eyes New Harvest Nervously

NARANJO – The rainy sky accentuates the dark greens and browns of the plants and the mud. Fog obstructs the view, but for a...

Universal Plans to Expand To 14 Stores by 2010

Universal, the popular chain of onestop shopping destinations, plans to open four more stores before 2010, bringing their Costa Rican total to 14. The store’s...

Inflation Expands, Breaks 10-Year Record

Prices increased 16.3 percent in the past 12 months, breaking a 10-year inflation record set in September. Prices for food and nonalcoholic drinks increased by...

To Attract Dollars, Banks Hiking CD Rates

Though the credit crunch in Costa Rica is being blamed for a host of ills, the situation might have a side benefit: high interest...

Cartago Microbrewery Sets Sail on Sudsy Sea

CARTAGO – As state-run communication and insurance monopolies are slowly opening their markets to competition, one microbrewery is set to tap into the domestic...

Costa Rican Film Festival Is Back

The Costa Rican Center for Film Production, better known as Centro de Cine, in San José’s historic Barrio Amón neighborhood, is relaunching its longstanding...

A Matter of Principle

Among the myriad laws that govern our behavior, such as gravity, the thermodynamic three or diminishing returns, none is more pervasive than the law...

Atenas Expat Hangout Started With a Cherry Pie

What makes this little pastry shop and restaurant in the western Central Valley town of Atenas so popular that patrons travel long distances to...

Aromatherapy Workshop Blooming in San Antonio

Aromatherapist Mariafernanda Larraguivel swears by a simple rule: Don’t put anything on your skin that you wouldn’t put in your mouth. Aware that chemically derived...

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