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Inflation Expands, Breaks 10-Year Record

Prices increased 16.3 percent in the past 12 months, breaking a 10-year inflation record set in September. Prices for food and nonalcoholic drinks increased by...

To Attract Dollars, Banks Hiking CD Rates

Though the credit crunch in Costa Rica is being blamed for a host of ills, the situation might have a side benefit: high interest...

Cartago Microbrewery Sets Sail on Sudsy Sea

CARTAGO – As state-run communication and insurance monopolies are slowly opening their markets to competition, one microbrewery is set to tap into the domestic...

Costa Rica telecom gives prepaid cell phones a trial run

Costa Rica´s state telecommunications company has launched a pilot plan for the long-awaited prepaid cell phone program that will ultimately be extended to non-residents,...

Liberals approach U.S. ambassador as Nicaragua spirals into chaos

MANAGUA – Alleging massive irregularities in Sunday´s elections, Managua mayoral candidate Eduardo Montealegre and some of his closest supporters met with U.S. Ambassador Robert...

Costa Rica passes final bill needed for CAFTA

Costa Rica has cleared the last hurdle to joining the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA). Lawmakers this week passed the last...

Costa Rica remembers Armistice Day

War veteran and Costa Rica are not often mentioned in the same conversation. However, a wreath-laying ceremony in San José´s Parque de Francia yesterday morning...

Inter-American Highway South closed

Costa Rica´s Inter-American Highway South will be closed today and tomorrow for road work at La Cangreja, Kilometer 34, south of Cartago, the National...

Lawmaker renounces immunity to stand drunken-driving homicide trial

Costa Rican lawmaker Ovidio Agüero gave up congressional immunity yesterday to stand trial for running over and killing a cyclist on Nov. 2 while...

Violence rocks Nicaragua after hotly contested election

Following a day of political violence that swept across the capital and other parts of the country after both of the main candidates for...

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