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Monthly Archives: January, 2009

Trail Race to Traverse Southern Pacific Coast

Scott Jurek, known as the Lance Armstrong of ultramarathon, is coming to Costa Rica for the fifth annual Coastal Challenge, a six-day trail race...

Year of the Ox Plods In

After a year of financial crises and economic turmoil, a little calm, hard work and risk-aversion could be just what the doctor ordered. It...

Escazú to Get the Blues Next Weekend

Blues fans will be able to relish their favorite music for more than 13 hours at the second annual Costa Rica International Blues Fest,...

High Seas High School Makes Port in Limón

If you ever thought your school days could have been a tad more exciting, then eat your heart out. Recently, two vintage sailing ships...

Local Girls Get Kick Out of Soccer Program

Like inadvertent pied pipers, Becky Poskin and her DartmouthCollege soccer teammates walk through the dusty slums of Granada with enticing bags of soccer balls...

Some 1 Million Nicas Have Emigrated to Costa Rica

GENEVA – About 1 million Nicaraguans have emigrated to neighboring Costa Rica seeking a better life due to the dire poverty and lack of...

Ortega Announces Gov’t Spending Cuts

MANAGUA – Lamenting that Nicaragua is “trapped” by the economic downturn of the “global capitalist” system, President Daniel Ortega last week announced a $66...

Ortega Criticizes U.S. Policy Toward Cuba

President Daniel Ortega is calling on the U.S. administration of Barack Obama to end the blockade against Cuba and to free five Cuban prisoners...

Gov’t Drops Criminal Investigation of NGOs

State prosecutors last week closed their controversial criminal probe of 17 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) after they failed to find enough evidence to press charges...

Alemán Versus Murillo in 2011 Presidential Contest?

In the hypothetical situation that Arnoldo Alemán faces First Lady Rosario Murillo in the 2011 presidential elections, the former president says he’s sure he...

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