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Crime, but also Police Efforts, Marked 2005

TOURISTS filed more reports of crimes in 2005, and kidnapping for extortion is on the rise, but the landmark crime stories this year were...

Open-Pit Gold Mines Moved Ahead This Year

DESPITE environmentalists’ disapproval, mining companies struck gold in 2005 after emerging victorious, or at least unharmed, from trying situations they had to face this...

More Wins Than Woes for Environment in 2005

DESPITE what Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez heralded in January as a difficult year, 2005 seems to have brought more accomplishments than setbacks for...

Fire and Rain

Costa Rica faced more than its share of struggles in 2005, but there were bright spots, too. Clockwise, from bottom left: The death of...

Water Wars: Year Saw Debates on Pollution

ONE of Costa Rica’s most essential, widely consumed resources – water – became a source of controversy on several occasions this year. A major...

Corruption Cases Kept Spotlight on Leaders

THE saga of government corruption scandals that broke in late 2004 continued to unfold this year, with every Costa Rican President since 1990 being...

Long Holiday Wish List for Tourism Industry

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...

Sound and Fury, but Few Results for CAFTA

IN 2005, Costa Rica’s foreign trade agenda was dominated – again – by the conflict over whether to approve the Central American Free-Trade Agreement...

Tico-Nica Relations: Year Ends on Sour Note

HISTORICAL tensions between Nicaragua and Costa Rica flared this year, ending on a worrisome note with mounting xenophobia and mutual anger. Bilateral relations between...

Weird & Wonderful 2006

Train Made a Comeback   AFTER a decade out of use, the passenger train in San José made a much-heralded comeback in October. The train now...

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