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No Good Pizza Raid Goes Unpunished

Police, responding in March to citizen complaints, thought they were doing the right thing by cracking down on pizza vendors who were selling pies...

Some Coke Brought to You Via an Octupus’ Garden

If you’ve noticed less cocaine making its way north by way of drug mules’ rear ends – and you probably haven’t – it may...

Don’t Swallow Coke or Stick It You-Know-Where

As of September, police at JuanSantamariaAirport had busted 26 drugrunning “mules” for smuggling cocaine in creative places, such as inside their body. Some had swallowed...

Like All You Fans, We’d Tumble for This Guy

Boy George, the flamboyant pop star of the 1980s, brought his glam culture rock to San José in September, wowing the tiny crowd of...

María José Gives Ticos Something to Cheer, Deride

María José Castillo took the country by storm this summer and fall, sailing to second place in Latin American Idol, the popular musical reality...

Tourist Police Busted For Stealing From Tourists

In February, just a couple of months after the Public Security Ministry launched the Tourist Police to beef up patrols at touristy areas, detectives...

Rains Set Records, Cause Misery

This year ended with a weather-related exclamation mark on the Caribbean coast and plains, where heavy rains caused mudslides and flooding that left one...

Trade Winds Finally Kicking Up

The Arias administration this year pressed the gas on a free-trade agenda that will strengthen economic ties with Europe, Asia and the United States. Costa...

Press Shines Light On Secret China Deal

Costa Ricans learned this year about the secret deal that enticed President Oscar Arias to forge ties with China alter breaking a nearly 60-year...

Tourism Hoping No. 2 Million Is No Ceiling

Tourism in Costa Rica had one of those proverbial good news, bad news years in 2008. The country set a record for visitors, with the...

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