GRANADA, Nicaragua – Maintaininga habitual state of crisis, Nicaraguan politicalleaders this year took their high-stakespoliticking to new levels, where terms suchas “coup,” “dictator,” and...
THIS will go down in Costa Rican historyas the year corruption scandals putformer Presidents behind bars and catapultedthe country into the internationalspotlight in ways...
FIGHTERS for press freedom won aresounding victory this year when theInter-American Court of Human Rightsruled in favor of Mauricio Herrera, areporter for the daily...
COSTA Rica’s tourism industry isending its best year ever, having welcomedan estimated 1.5 million foreign tourists.Most of those travelers arrived on anever-increasing number of...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco appearedslightly less gung-ho this year than previousyears in his crusade to be consideredone of Costa Rica’s most environmentallyconscious Presidents. Still, the...
IT was a suspenseful year for anti-oilexploration groups in their ongoing politicaland legal battle against the companyHarken Costa Rica Holdings, but by year’send they...
PREDICTIONS had cast 2004 as theyear of “Great Expectations” for the CostaRican economy, but with the passage ofmonths, “Waiting for Godot” became amore fitting...
BOTH proponents and critics of theCentral American Free-Trade Agreementwith the United States (CAFTA) held theirbreath for much of 2004, awaiting theresults of the U.S....
A year of negotiations involving myriadgovernment agencies and an arbitrationcourt proved unsuccessful in resolving themultimillion-dollar dispute regarding theoperation and renovation of JuanSantamaría International Airport.The...
