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Monthly Archives: October, 2009

Expat, Wife Ambushed Returning From Laguna

After 16 years in Costa Rica, Howard Cox had enough of the rising crime and moved to Nicaragua to start anew. “Now I feel like...

Honduran Crisis Sparks Diplomatic Tussle in D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At 5 a.m. on the morning of Latin America’s first coup d’état of the 21st century, Honduran Information Minister Eduardo Enrique...

Granada Considers Vigilante Justice

Frustrated with police inaction, residents taking justice into own hands Second in a two-part series on citizen insecurity in tourism towns   A string of robberies in...

Refugees’ Journey Far From Finished

The portrait picture of 25-year-old Teklehaymanot Habtemariam sent to The Tico Times by a concerned cousin looks nothing like the confused man pushed to...

Caldera Highway Cited

In a move that seems to many to be long overdue, the Environmental Tribunal, an administrative court under the Ministry of the Environment, Energy...

Hewlett-Packard products to be anointed ‘Made in Costa Rica’

U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) opened a research and development center Tuesday in Heredia, north of San José, a development that is expected to...

Limón Carnival lives again

Costa Rica´s Caribbean coast carnival – with its color and costumes, traditional food and flavor, music, art, horse shows and parades – is back...

2010 election bell has sounded

Marching closer to the February 2010 vote, the Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE) sounded an official kick-off to the campaign season on Wednesday. To an audience...

Costa Rica beats Egypt to move to quarterfinals of Under-20 World Cup

The Costa Rican under-20 national soccer team is proving that despite the dark clouds hanging over the chances of the men´s national team to...

Rigoberta Menchú calls on U.S. to play a stronger role in Honduras

For Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú, the Honduran crisis stretches beyond the country´s jagged borders, green mountains and far-reaching farmlands. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who...

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