The U.S. will maintain its embargo on the import of Costa Rican shrimp for a third straight year. While environmental groups consider the ban a victory, members of the shrimping sector feel the embargo is unjustified and unfair.
Artists from anywhere in the world are invited to submit applications to perform in the festival, set to take place in March in the Costa Rican capital.
The family-run coffee plantation in the mountains of Costa Rica’s Southern Zone incorporates charming, rustic accommodations and adventure tourism with rappelling on several waterfalls.
HOME GARDENING: Roble sabana, reported to have been the sacred tree and medicine of the Maya, can now be found throughout the tropics and makes an excellent landscaping tree.
