WITH opposition to the CentralAmerican Free-Trade Agreement with theUnited States (CAFTA) becoming stillmore concerted this week, President AbelPacheco took his strongest pro-CAFTAstance in months,...
WITHIN three months, earthmoverscould be starting their engines on the PapagayoPeninsula as ground is broken on thelatest undertaking of the upscale tourism development:the Peninsula...
FOR the first time since the 1980s,the Central Bank’s reserves exceed itsforeign currency debt, La Nación reportedthis week.In 2004, the reserves, which includeforeign currency,...
What is NASA doingin Costa Rica?The NationalAeronautics andSpace Administration(NASA) of theUnited States andCosta Rica’s NationalCenter forHigh Technology(CENAT) have along history ofcooperation.Recent missions have explored...
MANAGUA (EFE) – Miguel Obando,Nicaragua’s Cardinal and controversialArchbishop of Managua, announced duringMass last Sunday that Pope John PaulII has accepted his letter of resignation,and...
MANAGUA – Just across the political tracks fromthe internal rebellion that is rattling the ranks of the leftleaningSandinista National Liberation Front, EduardoMontealegre is launching...
ONE fascinatingaspect of foreign languagesis the existenceof words that have noadequate translation inone’s own language,or that seem to havemore than one meaningto a non-nativespeaker...
WAR and cross-cultural dating inmusical form have come to Costa Rica’ssouthern Pacific, with the Dominical LittleTheatre Group performing Rodgers andHammerstein’s “South Pacific.”“It is an...
FABIÁN Hernández, 67, has two prostheticlegs, the hard tan plastic emergingfrom his socks contrasting sharply with hisdark brown skin just above the knee. Sincethe...
