The main contractor consortium placed the last of the project’s 16 lock gates on Tuesday. With the expansion, so-called Post-Panamax ships measuring over 400 meters long and 50 wide, the size of four football fields, will be able to go through the canal.
Avraham Kotlitzky has been working for the last eight years to recreate a legendary hot springs resort on a hill just south of the city. The resort was Costa Rica’s biggest tourist attraction in the 1880s and, legend has it, the especially hot waters can cure all kinds of ails, from psoriasis to indigestion.
The legendary springs fell into disuse and ended up lost, forgotten and buried in a garbage dump for decades — until an Israeli Indiana Jones named Avraham Kotlitzky tracked them down here eight years ago, moved garbage and weeds aside, and thrust his hand into a hot spring.
Untitled properties can often be bought at a great discount — as little as half-price — but there are stories of buyers losing their investment entirely because of 11th-hour surprises. There are definitely risks to buying untitled land, but there are steps that can be taken to address them.
Costa Rica maintained its spot as the 12th "happiest" country in the world, according to the 2015 World Happiness Report. Above average happiness is a trend across Latin America — despite the region's high levels of violence and poverty.
The agreement, which was signed in 2012 by the governments of Nicaragua and Russia, would allow Moscow to set up land stations in the country for its satellites known as Glonas.
After years of false starts and finger-pointing, the twisting road to the spectacle set to shatter all boxing records for viewership and revenue wound through many locales, from the exclusive reaches of Beverly Hills to NBA courtside seats in Miami.
