CONSTRUCTION of a bridge nearHeredia, 40 minutes northwest of SanJosé, was completed last week, the dailyLa Nación reported, creating an alternateroute between Heredia and...
THE public’s approval rating ofPresident Abel Pacheco has rebounded significantlyfrom four months ago, with 45%of those polled describing his work as goodor very good,...
IN our Dec. 3 article, “Gun FactoryMay Be Shot Down,” Eugenia Zamorawas incorrectly identified as the directorof the Arias Foundation for Peace andHuman Progress....
“EDUCATED, stable, safe” are threewords that come to Mario Laguë’s mindwhen he describes Costa Rica. Indeed, in afew short weeks, the new ambassador fromCanada...
The Legislative Assembly onTuesday approved in first debate a controversialbill that penalizes with jail psychologicaland physical violence towardwomen. Before it can become law, the...
WORRIED that patients might associatethe public hospitals of the SocialSecurity System (Caja) with a phase IIIclinical test of a cervical cancer vaccineunder way in...
COSTA Rica appears to be cleaninghouse, seeking to punish corruption in thehighest reaches of government, but forAntonio Álvarez Desanti this is notenough – the...
A man identified by authorities asBritish businessman Thomas Purvis, 45,was found dead Monday morning in hisrented house in Sabana Sur, a neighborhoodin western San...
AS more than a million people celebratedthe Festival of Lights parade indowntown San José Saturday night, residentsin the Bribri shanty town in Pavas,west of...
EVEN though a string of publicmarches brought thousands of CostaRicans to the streets this year – to protestgovernment corruption, the proposed free-tradeagreement with the...
