COSTA Rica boasts more than 10,000different plant species.An area of Argentina three times thesize of Costa Rica boasts one: geneticallymodified soy.This reality is changing...
PRESUMED a flight risk, OsvaldoVillalobos, brother of the man who operateda multimillion-dollar high-interest loan operationthat closed in late 2002 after a policeraid, has had...
THE government’s top legal expertsthis week sided with legislators who havequestioned the way in which congressionalleaders attempted to speed up passage ofthe much-delayed tax...
SOME Costa Rican opponents of theCentral American Free-Trade Agreementwith the United States (CAFTA) are raisingred flags over the trade agreement’sapparent asymmetrical legal standing inthe...
THE Costa Rican Investment Board(CINDE) expects total foreign directinvestment to Costa Rica to reach $450million this year, in part because of therecovery of the...
A class of 130 women graduated froma government program of job-skills traininglast week, joining the ranks of thousandsof Costa Rican women who havecompleted the...
THE slow and obstacle-lined processnecessary to obtain construction permitsand commercial licenses causes corruptionwithin municipal governments ofCosta Rica, according to the Foundationfor Sustainable Development (Fundes).Parties...
SPANISH airline Iberia hasannounced it will transfer its LatinAmerican hub from Miami InternationalAirport to Panama City and GuatemalaCity on Oct. 1.Originally, Iberia had considered...
COSTA Rica’s top professional and amateurgolfers were at their best last weekend during CopaValle del Sol Real Intercontinental’s third edition at theValle del Sol...
SAILFISH action is wide openon the northern Pacific coast, andthere are a lot more fish than fishermenat Barra Colorado on the northernCaribbean. Rio Colorado...
