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 HomePoliticsCosta RicaCrowned heads Crowned heads By The Tico Times May 11, 2017 Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Photo by Albert Ph Vd Werf / RoyalPress via AFP Popular Articles Costa Rica Fights Drug Trafficking as Transit Hub Despite Resource Strains Costa Rica remains a key route for drugs heading to North America, despite efforts to crack down on trafficking. The U.S. Department of State’s... Read more Costa Rica’s Gandoca-Manzanillo Faces Unregulated Real Estate Boom Costa Rica’s Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, a biodiverse gem on our southern Caribbean coast, is under siege from unregulated development and government inaction. Environmental... Read more Costa Rica June Gardening: Grow Fruit Trees and Veggies with Compost Sunny, clear morning skies, rainy afternoons and ripening fruit on the trees are all part of June days in Costa Rica. June is also... Read more The Tico Times Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Latest Articles Panama to Negotiate With Chiquita Workers Amid Widespread Protests June 7, 2025 Costa Rica Fights Drug Trafficking as Transit Hub Despite Resource Strains June 7, 2025 Coco Gauff Wins 2025 Roland Garros After Thrilling Comeback Against Sabalenka June 7, 2025 Costa Rica’s Bold Plan to End Plastic Pollution by 2040 June 7, 2025 Costa Rica’s Soaring Incarceration Rate Fuels Debate Over New Prison June 7, 2025 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