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Health Minister Dragged into Arms Scandal

Legislators looking to pin blame in a highly politicized arms manufacturing scandal put Health Minister María Avila in their crosshairs during a three-hour grilling...

Commission Eyes Solutions to Trash Problem

Part one in a two-part series Scrambling to deal with more than a million tons of trash produced yearly in Costa Rica, the government’s...

Film Hits Ticos with an ‘Inconvenient Truth’

Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” has countries around the world talking  about global warming and the fate of the planet Earth, and Costa...

Nature Air Flies to Limón for Carnival

Costa Rican airline Nature Air is offering a special flight to the Caribbean port city of Limón in celebration of the region’s carnival, which...

Central Bank Head Explains Regime Change

The son of a Central Bank cashier, Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez has always found himself around money. “I’ve been coming to the Central Bank my...

Indigenous Graveyard Interrupts Refinery’s Plans

Construction of a new oil-refinery poliduct has been delayed, not by bureaucratic snafus or paperwork glitches, but by five tombs dating back to A.D....

Rodrigo Arias Inaugurates Northern Zone Council

Presidency Minister Rodrigo Arias signed an agreement Oct.6 in the Northern Zone town of Upala to create a Development Council for three of the...

Credit Agency Improves Country’s Outlook Rating

The international credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings published a revealing report on Costa Rica last week, in which it revised the country’s rating outlook...

Europe Calls for More Regional Integration

Flying in the face of the European Union’s demands, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is insisting that Costa Rica have its own negotiator to...

Intel’s Impact on Economy Huge, Report Says

Nearly a decade ago, it came to this small country to manufacture tiny computer chips. The results have been enormous. Government officials, non-governmental organizations...

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