In February, just a couple of months after the Public Security Ministry launched the Tourist Police to beef up patrols at touristy areas, detectives...
This year ended with a weather-related exclamation mark on the Caribbean coast and plains, where heavy rains caused mudslides and flooding that left one...
The Arias administration this year pressed the gas on a free-trade agenda that will strengthen economic ties with Europe, Asia and the United States.
Costa...
The year started promising for Costa Rica, despite fears of a faltering economy in the United States.
The Central Bank’s reserves had reached an all-time...
An unlikely coalition of ad executives, journalists, clergy and ex-government officials formed a movement in March called Recuperemos La Paz (Let’s Restore Peace), heralding...
Three U.S. mothers were arrested on international kidnapping charges this year, provoking varying responses to the U.S. Embassy’s requests to extradite them, that set...
