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Monthly Archives: October, 2009

Carnival Dances Its Way Back to Limón

Life Is a Carnival Again: Colorfully clad comparsas and thousands of onlookers took to the streets of the Caribbean port city of Limón last...

Bahía del Sol Makes You Wish for a Longer Stay

As we sat next to our stationary bus on the side of the Inter-American Highway, waiting for traffic police to clear the remnants of...

ALBA Countries Move Toward Virtual Money

The countries of the Venezuelan-backed Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) last week recommitted themselves to moving toward a new virtual currency called the...

High Court Green-Lights Reelection

  High Court Green-Lights Reelection By Tim Rogers   A surprise ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court to overturn a 22-year-old constitutional ban on consecutive...

Violence Rocks Atlantic Coast

The Caribbean port town of Bilwi woke up Tuesday morning to torrential rains and a desolate yet tense calm on the streets, following a...

Homeless World Cup Changes Lives

Axel Urbina’s wide smile glows as he flips through the pages of his Homeless World Cup scrapbook. He thumbs through articles written about the...

Dockworkers Strike

While Costa Rica tries to pitch its Caribbean port of Limón as a modern operation with enormous potential, it faces forces that continue tugging...

Crisis Has Exporters Seeking New Harbors

LA UNIÓN, El Salvador – The political crisis in Honduras, which has cost Central American exporters millions in economic losses since last June, is...

Authorities shutter Saprissa over allegations of unpaid social security

Costa Rican Social Security System (Caja) officials closed Ricardo Saprissa Stadium Wednesday, claiming the San José soccer team owes a ¢ 720 million (more...

Costa Rica road officials were warned in 2006 bridge would collapse

TURRUBARES, Costa Rica – The collapse of a bridge last week that resulted in the death of five people could have been avoided had...

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