Police arrested a man with the last names Calvo Alvarado on Monday for selling turtle eggs outside of the Río Blanco stadium in Limón, on the country's Caribbean coast. He faces up to two years in jail.
Costa Rica knows it will play in the World Cup knockout round, but doing so as the top team from Group D could help this year’s team achieve true history – advancing further than the country ever has.
England manager Roy Hodgson will field an experimental side as his team's miserable World Cup draws to a close against Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
British Minister of State for Latin America, Hugo Swire, characterized relations as positive between the two nations and said that the United Kingdom hopes to cooperate with Costa Rica in areas like education and renewable energy.
One normal migration for turtles, one giant discovery for humankind. With his 14-day journey from the waters of Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park to the Galapagos Marine Reserve in Ecuador, “Sanjay,” an endangered green sea turtle, established the first direct migration link between the two protected areas.
