A year and a half after its largest eruption in more than140 years, the Turrialba Volcano is back open for tourists. The Turrialba Volcano is one of Costa Rica's five active volcanoes.
The Las Palmas and Suerre hotels in Punta Uva were shut down this week, 18 years after they were ordered to be closed by MINAET. Protesters demonstrated at the demolition of the hotels. Area residents blocked the street, burned tires and tried to turn back a brigade of police.
An Amnesty International mission demanded Thursday that the government of Nicaragua legalize therapeutic abortion to prevent cases of maternal death or of women impregnated...
U.S. expat Lisa Artz, 49, becomes the fourth Osa Peninsula resident killed since December 2009 and the second in six months in the small, isolated community in southern Costa Rica. Nobody has been arrested in any of the cases.
