DESPITE environmentalists’ disapproval, mining companies struck gold in 2005 after emerging victorious, or at least unharmed, from trying situations they had to face this...
DESPITE what Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez heralded in January as a difficult year, 2005 seems to have brought more accomplishments than setbacks for...
INFRASTRUCTURE (or concerns about the lack thereof) headlined the news in tourism this year.
The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) just supplied recently crunched numbers...
IN 2005, Costa Rica’s foreign trade agenda was dominated – again – by the conflict over whether to approve the Central American Free-Trade Agreement...
HISTORICAL tensions between Nicaragua and Costa Rica flared this year, ending on a worrisome note with mounting xenophobia and mutual anger. Bilateral relations between...