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Monthly Archives: December, 2010

Ortega aims to militarize Nicaragua – Costa Rica border

Daniel Ortega's defense-bill package would be a "Christmas present" to the military.

Texas family finally flies home

After more than a month in the intensive care unit with a family member that remains in a coma at Costa Rica's CIMA Hospital, the Swenson family is going home to Texas thanks to an anonymous donor.

Your help needed for storm victims

In times of need, communities stand together. The Tico Times is supporting victims of recent storm-related disasters by collecting the following items. (Please, no...

Surfing the concrete wave in Costa Rica

Tico skateboarding pioneer: Costa Rican skateboarders are known more as artists than as athletes.

Coffee important for teen diet, growers say

In a marketing strategy unveiled Friday, Costa Rican coffee growers want to make coffee an important part of teenagers’ diets. They say that coffee contains...

Gov’t looks for quick coffee fix

The months of September, November and December have been disastrous for Costa Rican coffee production. Due to “ojo de gallo,” an invasive plant fungus,...

Environ damage continues; court ruling pending

New photos from Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry illustrate that Nicaraguan soldiers have nearly completed a canal that could threaten protected wetlands near the San...

Costa Rican wetlands lack protection

As erosion and sedimentation damage C.R. wetlands, environmentalists ponder how to prevent more harm to the country's ecosystem.

Costa Rica discovers new crab species

University of Costa Rica’s Zoology Museum: “To discover a new species of river crab for the country isn’t something that happens often.”

Parties rally voters as election nears

Political gurus are holding their breaths and hoping for a higher voter turnout for Sunday’s municipal election. More than 75 percent of the country...

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