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Contentious Year for Environmentalists

For environmentalists, 2006 was a year of mixed signals, tough talk and myopic emergency decrees by government officials. Topping this year’s list of environmental concerns...

Tourism Grew About 10% in 2006

Calculations for 2006 show that tourism is expected to have grown by 10% this year, totaling 773,398 foreign visitors, according to preliminary numbers provided...

Activists Fight to Reverse Therapeutic Abortion Ban

Nicaragua became part of a dubious short list of countries in the world to outlaw all forms of abortion this year, when lawmakers and...

Daniel Ortega Stole the Headlines in 2006

On Feb. 27, 1990, two days after being voted out of office, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega delivered a concession speech entitled “The Revolution Cannot...

Jewelry-Making Workshop Opens Gallery

At Galerías Metallo, jewelry-making apprentices have unveiled the fruits of a year or two of pliers-wielding, waxcasting, stone-embedding study at a gold and silver...

Putumayo Releases “New Orleans Christmas”

For some jazzy new Christmas music, try “New Orleans Christmas,” the recently released Putumayo World Music compilation. “Silver Bells,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “I’ll...

Country Day Expands Guanacaste Campus

The CountryDay School, one of Costa Rica’s several private schools based on the U.S. education system, has begun expanding its Guanacaste campus, hoping to...

Pied Piper of the Shantytown’ Helps Children in Needy Communities

Keith Holder could very easily be called the Pied Piper of the Shantytown. Children naturally flock to him. As he walks through the poor...

AIDS Patients Have Home of Hope

In a downtown San José church, a choir sang songs Dec. 1 to commemorate World AIDS Day. There weren’t many of them, and they...

How Sandy Claws Wrecked Christmas

Although this happened years ago, every Christmas it comes to mind. Christmas came at a bad time of the year for our neighbor Rosa....

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