HEAVY rains and the song of Costa Rica’s nationalbird, the yiguirro, throughout the Central Valley thisweek and last triggered rumors of an imminent earlystart...
“A nation with secure borders and open doors” –these words to describe the United States are repeatedthroughout the visa section of the U.S. StateDepartment’s...
In the face of the government’s reluctance tocomply with a 2001 law requiring that gas taxrevenues be spent on road repairs, private citizens– tired...
THE revelry of ecstatic vacationersusually results in a bout of increased crimeand violent deaths throughout the countryduring Semana Santa (Easter Holy Week),and this year...
THE number of people afflicted withdengue, a mosquito-borne disease thatinduces fever, pain and, in rare cases, hemorrhagingand death, dropped during thefirst months of this...
LIKE fellow ex-President MiguelÁngel Rodríguez (1998-2002) before him,former head of state Rafael ÁngelCalderón, Jr. (1990-1994) left the penitentiaryLa Reforma March 23, after fivemonths of...
DON’T expect to see any pregnantwomen out and about during next Fridayafternoon’s solar eclipse. Costa Ricanfolk belief holds that mothers-to-be whogo outdoors during an...
A homeless man police say has anample criminal background allegedlystabbed to death a 26-year-old man indowntown San José because he would notgive him a...
