COSTA Rica’s tourism industry isending its best year ever, having welcomedan estimated 1.5 million foreign tourists.Most of those travelers arrived on anever-increasing number of...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco appearedslightly less gung-ho this year than previousyears in his crusade to be consideredone of Costa Rica’s most environmentallyconscious Presidents. Still, the...
IT was a suspenseful year for anti-oilexploration groups in their ongoing politicaland legal battle against the companyHarken Costa Rica Holdings, but by year’send they...
PREDICTIONS had cast 2004 as theyear of “Great Expectations” for the CostaRican economy, but with the passage ofmonths, “Waiting for Godot” became amore fitting...
BOTH proponents and critics of theCentral American Free-Trade Agreementwith the United States (CAFTA) held theirbreath for much of 2004, awaiting theresults of the U.S....
A year of negotiations involving myriadgovernment agencies and an arbitrationcourt proved unsuccessful in resolving themultimillion-dollar dispute regarding theoperation and renovation of JuanSantamaría International Airport.The...
DESPITE an eager announcement byPresident Abel Pacheco and PublicEducation Minister Manuel AntonioBolaños to “relaunch” education byputting computer labs in rural high schools– thus bridging...
THIS year saw a U.S. mother’s dreamsand hard work materialize as the Englishcenter dedicated to the memory of her slaindaughter opened and trained its...
CULMINATING months of high-profilestruggles against the sex trade in CostaRica and a brilliant 15-year career fightingfor the rights of children throughout CentralAmerica, the director...
MANUEL Montero made the cops’job easy on April 14. Leaving a Nestléplant in the northwestern province ofGuanacaste where he allegedly stole acomputer and other...
