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Monthly Archives: February, 2016

Dengue, chikungunya cases in Costa Rica up by over 600 percent

While the mosquito-borne Zika virus captures headlines, dengue and chikungunya cases in Costa Rica have both quietly jumped more than 600 percent in 2016 compared to the same period last year.

Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb

On Saturday night, the candidacy that had begun with such promise ended quietly after a disappointingly weak fourth-place finish in South Carolina. Beyond underestimating the anger in the electorate, three other problems led to Bush's downfall.

La Sele draws group of death in Copa America

Tough draw for Costa Rica's "La Sele" in the upcoming 2016 Centennial Copa America football tournament.

5 questions for composer Pieter Schlosser – ‘The idea is to extract the emotion’

Pieter Schlosser, who lived in Costa Rica as a teenager, chats with The Tico Times about his work as a composer for film, TV and video games.

Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest sanctioned by Vatican, dies at age 82

Fernando Cardenal was minister of education and led a literacy campaign under Nicaragua's Sandinista government in the 1980s.

Uber supporters say court case could legalize ride-hailing service in Costa Rica

While the Sala IV analyzes the complaint, drivers for unlicensed transportation services like Uber essentially have free reign to do business.

Sea Butterfly Evolution Reveals Underwater Flight Patterns

The aptly-named Arctic "sea butterfly" (Limacina helicina), a species of sea snail, uses the same biomechanics as animals that fly through the air.

UPDATE: Suspect in slaying of US-Costa Rican family captured in Nicaragua

Nicaraguan police presented a handcuffed Michael Adrián Salmerón Silva -- the principal suspect in the killing of five members of a family in Guanacaste, Costa Rica -- at a Saturday news conference.

Costa Rica women’s Olympic hopes dashed in 3-1 loss to Canada

The Costa Rican women's football team fell one win short of reaching the Olympics for the first time in its history with a 3-1 loss to Canada Friday.

Mosquito spreading Zika has long been one of the world’s ‘most efficient killers’

It fits easily onto a single fingernail, and yet has tormented armies and obliterated the population of entire cities.

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