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Monthly Archives: February, 2016

Special home financing offered at Construction and Housing Expo this week

Several financial institutions have announced their terms and conditions for financing options they are offering this week at the Construction and Housing Expo at the Pedregal Events Center in Belén, Heredia, on housing projects ranging from $45,000 to more than $1 million dollars.

Fishing industry, conservationists both wary of Solís stance on shark protections

President Luis Guillermo Solís was forced this week to defend his administration's record on shark protections before a group of international shark experts.

Costa Rica court convicts U.S. investor of fraud

The long, strange ordeal that Cyrus Sepehr refers to as "something out of a movie" took a turn for the worse Thursday when a San José court convicted him on five counts of fraud in a failed real estate deal.

Costa Rica seeks to boost electric, hybrid cars

Costa Rica leads the world in green energy, but lags on vehicle pollution. A bill under discussion in the legislature seeks to change that.

World Bank: Zika will cost Latin America $3.5 billion in 2016

Most of the projected losses to the region take the form of foregone income from tourists — especially pregnant women — who might cancel their trips out of concern that contracting the virus could lead to birth defects.

With abortion banned in Zika countries, women beg on web for abortion pills

"I want to ask for help because I'm overcome by fear that my baby will be born sick."

Obama to make historic visit to Cuba in March

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Cuba in almost a century next month, a symbolic visit that will cast off one of the last vestiges of the Cold War.

Commenting on Zika virus, Pope Francis calls abortion ‘a human evil’

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis insisted Thursday that abortion was always a crime but hinted that the Church could exceptionally relax its ban on contraception for women at risk of contracting the Zika virus.

Costa Rica’s Solís calls for ‘more substantive’ Central America integration

GUATEMALA CITY – It's time to leave the rhetoric aside, said Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solís as he kicked off a four-day visit to Guatemala Thursday with a call for a "more substantive" Central America integration.

Landmark sexual slavery case in Guatemala examines use of rape as weapon of war

A groundbreaking sexual slavery trial that began in Guatemala on Feb. 1 has exposed how the systematic rape of indigenous women has been used by landowners and the armed forces for over a century as a strategy to subdue native communities.

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