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Monthly Archives: June, 2015

Random Photo of the Month: Ethiopians watch Costa Rica’s La Sele get beat by Spain

And in the totally random photo of the month category, British journalist Greg Brosnan sent us this snapshot of a group of Ethiopians in the...

Live Stream: 2015 Latin American Cities Conference San José

We will be live streaming the 2015 Latin American Cities Conference: San José, brought to you by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas. The conference, "Costa Rica: A New Investment Opportunity," takes place Thursday, June 25, 2015 at the Costa Rica Marriott Hotel, starting at 8:30 a.m.

And here are your Sloth Kong Airport Photo Contest winners…

Remember back in March when we announced that our beloved Sloth Kong was taking over Costa Rica's Juan Santamaría International Airport? Well, it turns out that the hospitality offered to big SK at his new digs has been overwhelming. Hundreds – perhaps thousands – of travelers passing through Costa Rica's busiest air hub have stopped to snap their photo with Sloth Kong.

US indicts 17 alleged drug traffickers from Colombia, with ties to Costa Rica

NEW YORK – The United States announced Tuesday it had indicted 17 alleged leaders and associates of Colombia's powerful Clan Usuga drug gang, who would all risk life in prison if ever convicted.

Costa Rica Coast Guard seizes more than 1 metric ton of cocaine on high seas

Seven suspects were arrested on two different boats.

Government promises solutions to local producers hurt by import prices

Casa Presidencial promised farmers an official proposal to address their concerns by Wednesday at 3 p.m.

Costa Rica Kayaking: Lightning, Rockslides, and Rescue on Isla Chora

We were talking about “Jurassic Park,” the dinosaur movie set on an island in Costa Rica where everything goes horribly wrong, when everything started going...

Costa Rica Real Estate: What’s Not Included in When You Buy a Home

Every country has its own rules for buying and selling a Costa Rican home. You don’t often buy or sell a home usually, unless...

Ex-San José mayor and presidential dropout Johnny Araya denies rumors of party flip-flop ahead of 2016 elections

Johnny Araya, the National Liberation Party’s disgraced former presidential candidate and former long-term mayor of Costa Rica's capital, denied recent rumors that he had meetings with leaders from the Accessibility Without Exclusion Party to run for mayor next year.

Europe’s pointless exercise in Greek austerity

WASHINGTON, D.C. — History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as trolling. That, at least, is the case in Greece, where its lenders want it to cut its pensions rather than hike its business taxes, because they're afraid those increases would, as the Financial Times' Peter Spiegel reports, "crimp economic growth."

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