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Monthly Archives: December, 2008

New Networking Group For Professionals

International Professionals of Costa Rica is a new networking group that organizes social, recreational, cultural, charitable and educational activities for internationally minded professionals living...

Organ Music Fills Cathedral After 10 Years

Costa Rica’s largest musical instrument is in operation once again, just in time for Christmas. The 3,000-pipe organ in downtown San José’s Metropolitan Cathedral made...

Obama Challenged to Engage Region

MANAGUA – As U.S. President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office on Jan. 20, Nicaragua and the rest of Latin America will be watching...

Nica Aims to be Landmine Free by ’09

MOZONTE – Diego Antonio Gómez says he hopes the last of the landmines will be removed by the end of 2009, allowing his indigenous...

Limón’s Trash Soon May Head to History’s Heap

Florencia Morgan sprinkles Clorox on the mounds of trash outside her house to cover up the smell and keep away the flies. For as...

Ticos Fight Back

A businessman shot and killed two thieves who had just robbed him of ¢990,000 (about $1,833) as they allegedly fired on him while trying...

No Good Pizza Raid Goes Unpunished

Police, responding in March to citizen complaints, thought they were doing the right thing by cracking down on pizza vendors who were selling pies...

Some Coke Brought to You Via an Octupus’ Garden

If you’ve noticed less cocaine making its way north by way of drug mules’ rear ends – and you probably haven’t – it may...

Don’t Swallow Coke or Stick It You-Know-Where

As of September, police at JuanSantamariaAirport had busted 26 drugrunning “mules” for smuggling cocaine in creative places, such as inside their body. Some had swallowed...

Like All You Fans, We’d Tumble for This Guy

Boy George, the flamboyant pop star of the 1980s, brought his glam culture rock to San José in September, wowing the tiny crowd of...

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