Today in Costa Rica Costa Rica’s Court Defends Journalists Against Presidential Overreach IMF Approves $1.5 Billion Flexible Credit Line for Costa Rica Costa Rica’s Migrant Crisis: A Paradise for Tourists, a Hell for Detained Deportees Costa Rica June Gardening: Grow Fruit Trees and Veggies with Compost Costa Rica’s Journalists’ Day: Press Freedom in Crisis HomeTopicsArts and CultureChildren’s Hospital celebrates families with special needs Children’s Hospital celebrates families with special needs By The Tico Times December 5, 2014 Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Robert Isenberg/The Tico Times Popular Articles Salvadoran Journalist Killed in Honduras Despite Protection Salvadoran journalist Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas was shot and killed in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, about 200 km northwest of Tegucigalpa. Gunmen ambushed... Read more El Salvador’s Fruit-Laden Bamboo Pole Festival in Carrizal To the rhythm of music, the roar of fireworks, and doses of aguardiente, hundreds of Salvadorans carried massive bamboo poles laden with fruit on... Read more Rincón de la Vieja Volcano Erupts in Costa Rica Yesterday, the Rincón de la Vieja volcano in northwestern Costa Rica erupted, sending a column of ash 2,000 meters above its crater. The eruption,... Read more The Tico Times Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Latest Articles Costa Rican Fishermen Sound Alarm on Gulf of Nicoya’s Overfishing Crisis June 6, 2025 True Stories from Costa Rica’s Tourism Frontlines June 6, 2025 Costa Rica’s Ocean Forecasting System Protects Cocos Island Marine Life June 6, 2025 US Soldiers Join Panama for Canal Defense Exercises June 6, 2025 Fuego Volcano Forces Evacuations in Guatemala Amid Ashfall and Pyroclastic Flows June 5, 2025 Costa Rica’s Court Defends Journalists Against Presidential Overreach June 5, 2025 Costa Rica’s Gandoca-Manzanillo Faces Unregulated Real Estate Boom June 5, 2025