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Monthly Archives: August, 2013

Top Internet streaming services provider expands Costa Rica operations

Local facilities will handle the company’s main operations for Latin American customers.

Paper plane photo exhibition takes flight in Barrio Amón

Photographer Luna Lin's exhibition in downtown San José explores the nature of travel. The exhibition opened last week at Libros Duluoz San José and will be on display through Sept. 18.

Israelis rush for gas masks, expecting U.S. strike on Syria

"They warned us of a possible attack, and they run out of masks? It's ridiculous," one mother said.

Costa Rica cops dismantle drug smuggling ring that used local postal service

Costa Rica's Drug Control Police seized over $200,000 worth of ecstasy Wednesday in an investigation into a drug ring that used the national postal service to send and receive drugs from Europe and Nicaragua.

Costa Rican woman denied therapeutic abortion petitions Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Doctors at a public hospital in Costa Rica refused to perform a therapeutic abortion last November, saying the woman's life was not at risk.

Costa Rica environmental groups still raising questions in Jairo Mora case

Two months after Costa Rican conservationist Jairo Mora was murdered, police swept up suspected members of a criminal gang of turtle poachers and charged them with murder. But local environmental groups are pushing for more answers.

Syniverse opens office in San José suburb, plans to hire 70 telecom workers

The U.S.-based telecommunications company marks first office in Central America with a visit from Costa Rica's foreign trade minister.

Foreign ministers reach agreement to end trucker protest at Costa Rica-Panama border

Despite the announcement, commercial truck drivers continue blocking the border until they see proof of an agreement.

MLK and Central America: The dream lives on

Oscar Arias’ calls for nonviolent political solutions to regional wars owed a debt to Martin Luther King Jr., whom Arias still quotes regularly.

Peru prosecutors arrive in Costa Rica in ongoing probe of ex-President Alejandro Toledo

Investigators will interview a Costa Rican domestic worker and security guard who are listed as board members of a corporation linked to Toledo.

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