The year started promising for Costa Rica, despite fears of a faltering economy in the United States.
The Central Bank’s reserves had reached an all-time...
An unlikely coalition of ad executives, journalists, clergy and ex-government officials formed a movement in March called Recuperemos La Paz (Let’s Restore Peace), heralding...
Three U.S. mothers were arrested on international kidnapping charges this year, provoking varying responses to the U.S. Embassy’s requests to extradite them, that set...
* Throughout the year, the Environment Ministry’s Environmental Tribunal won praise, and death threats, after new head judge José Lino Chaves began a series...
As part of its leave-no-patty-unturned campaign to rid Costa Rica of bandits, drug dealers, carjackers and other ne’er-do-wells, the government in April banned a...
Though export growth slowed this year due to weather-related hits to agriculture, sales of medical devices to other countries grew.
Anchoring that growth were sales...
