TWENTY-SIX self-dubbed “ecologicalmissionaries” arrived in Costa Ricain January after a two-month trip fromCalifornia in two vintage buses withdiesel engines converted to burn vegetableoil.Steering clear...
FOLLOWING a surgical complication,transplant patient Carlos Sánchez, 21,rejected the kidney that a stranger, KatiaBrenes, 22, had donated to him inNovember.Without having met him, the...
A business cooperative of 800 organiccacao producers in Talamanca, in thesouthern Caribbean zone, told The TicoTimes in May that manufacturers of finechocolates in Italy...
MORE than a dozen residents nearthe Northern Zone’s Lake Arenal toldThe Tico Times in January that they haveseen crocodiles in Lake Arenal in thepast...
IN November, the ConstitutionalChamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV)ruled in favor of Gerardo Mora, a 41-year-old blind man who filed a lawsuitagainst a...
HORRIFYING cases of domestic violence,police aggression against immigrantsand huge drug busts marked 2004.Nine slayings resulting from domesticviolence were reported in the first month ofthe...
COSTA Ricans were horrified by theJuly slayings of three diplomats at theChilean Embassy in the eastern San Josédistrict of Los Yoses.Local police officer José...
PEACE advocates and human rightsgroups this year celebrated the declarationof unconstitutionality of President AbelPacheco’s decision to list Costa Ricaamong the nations that support the...
A proposal by the United States tocreate an International Law EnforcementAcademy (ILEA) in Costa Rica was practicallynullified this year after U.S. negotiatorsrefused to accept...
