SAN SALVADOR (EFE) – Civicgroups marked Tuesday’s observance ofthe Day of the Dead by paying tribute tothe thousands of people killed during ElSalvador’s civil...
MANAGUA – In the final days ofcampaigning before Sunday’s municipalelections, major polls are suggesting theSandinista National Liberation Front willmaintain control of the coveted mayor’sseat...
MATCHING trends in the UnitedStates, the 2004 presidential electionbrought U.S. voters out of the CostaRican woodwork to vote absentee.The U.S. Embassy in San José...
NOT only large corporations willbenefit financially from the reelection ofU.S. President George W. Bush – as theleader’s opponents allege – average citizensmay have also...
ABOUT 1,200 families living in ashantytown along the banks of a drainagebasin near Heredia, north of San José, facethe daily possibility that their houses...
USING Costa Rica as one of its subjects,the International Labor Organization(ILO) presented the results of a globalizationstudy and a list of recommendationsto soften the...
MORE than 100 former oreros – goldpanners and miners – who were evictedfrom Corcovado and Piedras Blancasnational parks in the southern Pacificregion are camping...
AUTHORITIES have announcedtourists can now carry copies of their passportsinstead of the originals when travelingwithin Costa Rica, a change designedto reduce rising rates of...
COSTA Rica will have the diplomatichonor of being part of the UnitedNation’s Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC) beginning in 2005, theForeign Ministry announced.The council is...
