Monthly Archives: December, 2012

Cool temperatures will maintain in most of Costa Rica.

US general retired from active service in August 1991.

Most deaths occurred in traffic accidents.

San Cristóbal volcano became active spewing ash columns of up to 500 meters high.

Vice President Nicolás Maduro said Monday that Chávez could be sworn in by Supreme Court justices.

Modus operandi of the attackers corresponds to drug trafficking groups, officials said.

Festival was a commitment to help make Costa Rica carbon neutral by its bicentennial in 2021.

A court of appeals Friday overturned the conviction of ex-Costa Rican President Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1998-2002) and acquitted him on the charge of "instigating corruption" in a case of influence peddling with the Costa Rican Electricity Institute and French telecommunications giant Alcatel.

The San José-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a ruling Thursday night against the government of Costa Rica condemning its ban on in vitro fertilization. The court ordered the country to legalize the practice, which was outlawed in March 2000 by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV.

Costa Rica’s annual State of the Nation report this year noted that there were more protests in 2011 than all but two years in the past two decades. In 2012, that trend continued, as groups as diverse as farmworkers and Supreme Court justices marched in the nation’s capital.