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Monthly Archives: March, 2009

CIMA Hospital Guanacaste Still in Embryonic Phase

On the hot, dusty Highway 21 west of Liberia, a lonely sign sits in an empty lot. “Coming soon,” it reads, “a new state-of...

Arias’ ‘Shield Plan’ Drawing Fire From Experts

President Oscar Arias’ plan to combat the current economic crisis, the so-called Plan Escudo, or Shield Plan, is getting a second look from economists...

Costa Rica Deficit Grows To $172 million

Costa Rica’s central government accumulated a ¢96 billion (over $171 million) budget deficit from February 2008 to February of this year, the Finance Ministry...

New Insurance Companies Knocking at the Door

Georgina Díaz is ready. Díaz, general administrator of the insurance company Seguros del Magisterio, smiles as she describes her firm’s plans for the Costa Rican...

Arts Festival Flies South

Like the many snowbirds who flock to the country this time of year, this year’s National Arts Festival is heading south. Alternating between San José...

Agricultural Villages, Chiefdoms & Better Pottery

While the sites of the Early Ceramic Period in Costa Rica (circa 1500-500 B.C.) are few, small and difficult to locate and identify (TT,...

Blowout!

The wildcat Naft Sefid 20 was scheduled to drill clean through the Cretaceous limestone gas cap in an effort to tap the expected Eocene...

Easy to Explore, Heredia Invites Discovery

Did you know that Heredia was the first Spanish urban center on the west side of the Central Valley? I didn’t, and I was...

Telephone Numbers Will Switch to 8 Digits April 22

Starting April 22, an 8th digit will be added to all telephone numbers in Nicaragua. The government’s telecom regulation agency, TELCOR, says the measure is...

Rights Activists Expect Reversal On Abortion Ban

MANAGUA – After more than two years of public-awareness campaigns, political lobbying and legal challenges, Nicaraguan human-rights activists are more hopeful than ever that...

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