Some reports show that 30 percent of shark species are endangered, according to the Project AWARE Foundation. Meanwhile Costa Rica remains a shark fishing hot spot.
An American, identified as Jonathan Alexander Sharp, 41, died Tuesday night at about 11 p.m., in Jacó, Puntarenas.
Sharp was driving an ATV that rolled...
Bidding ended Tuesday for companies competing for a stake in Costa Rica's newly opened mobile telephone market. Mexico's América Móvil and Spain's Telefónica each bid $70 million to compete against the government-owned Costa Rican Electricity Institute. Privatization of the cell phone market is a key requirement for the recently adopted Central American Free Trade Agreement.