Monthly Archives: December, 2010

A still-recovering Will Laughlin sits down with The Tico Times on Sunday to relive an 82-hour run from the Pacific to the Carribbean.

The diminished Costa Rican textile industry indicates a new era of Tico exports. While Costa Rica falls behind the Central American region in textile exports, it surges ahead in sales of high tech components and medical devices

There are more than a few ghosts floating around Cuba. Brilliant musicians like Compay Segundo of Buena Vista Social Club fame, literary figures like...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Analysts warn defense laws would create spy networks, state-sponsored repression.

Will Laughlin of Boulder, Colo. became the first person to complete the rigorous 261-mile bike route, called the Ruta de los Conquistadores, by foot.

At least 12 Costa Rica legislators will travel to Golfito Friday to observe U.S. counternarcotics operations. The trip is being organized by the U.S. Embassy in response to recent controversy over the Joint Maritime Agreement, a bilateral accord that allows the United States to use Costa Rican waters to fight drug trafficking.

National Registry Site in English Any English-speaking landowner who’s ever struggled to understand what a “hypoteca” or a “catastro” is will be elated to learn...

Have you had difficulties shipping health supplements and other medicines to Costa Rica? Have you had trouble getting them through Customs at the airport?...

Need that supplement from the United States? Well, one less postal service will transport it for you. How tougher customs enforcement has resulted in one supplement company saying no to shipping drugs.

In an effort to reassure Costa Rican legislators that the U.S. needs Costa Rica’s help in anti-drug operations in the Southern Pacific Zone, U.S....