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Legislator Held Hostage At Neighborhood School

LEGISLATIVE Assembly memberRodolfo Delgado, of the Social ChristianUnity Party (PUSC), stopped by hisneighborhood school Tuesday in Jerico deDesamparados, 15 kilometers south ofSan José, to...

Beleaguered Escazú Supermarket to be Reconstructed

RESIDENTS of Escazú, west of SanJosé, may wonder whatever happened tothe giant Hipermás supermarket, just offthe highway at the entrance of Escazú,above the Tiribí...

U.S. Eases Restrictions on Tico Meat Exports

COSTA Rica’s beef industry hasproved itself sanitary enough for U.S.standards, the Ministry of Agriculture andLivestock announced this week. Beef willnow go directly from Costa...

5.0 Quake Jolts West Coast, No Damages Reported

AN earthquake that registered 5.0 onthe Richter scale struck the southernPacific coast Sunday night at 9:31.Though it was felt as far north as theCentral...

President Returns to Work

PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco returnedto work this week after being hospitalizedfor two days last week because of chestpains he experienced on Feb. 10.After medical exams...

U.S. Congressman Visits San José

U.S. Republican congressman DanBurton, recently elected chairman of theWestern Hemisphere Subcommittee of theInternational Relations Committee, visitedSan José this week.The Indiana congressman met withex-President and...

Environmentalists Celebrate Approval of Fishing Law

THE long-awaited Fishing andAquaculture Law, which includes sanctionsagainst fishing in protected areas, unlicensedfishing vessels and unsustainableshark fishing, was approved by the LegislativeAssembly in second...

U.S. Economist Mixes Romance, Market Theory

LOVE was in the air as visiting U.S.economist and author Russell Roberts presentedtwo lectures on trade and economicsin San José Monday.The university professor gave...

Artist at Work

TAKING Shape: Alejandro Hernández, from Coronado, watchessculptor Efraín Romero work in the central park of Barva, amountain town northwest of San José, as part...

Caja Demands Constructor Fix Hospital Problems

FOUR months after it was inaugurated,the $36 million Hospital San Rafael deAlajuela, in Alajuela, west of San José, isbreaking down, says the government.Officials are...

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