IT was a classic, corny sports flickfinish – Costa Rica’s national soccer team,La Selección, scored the tie-breaking goalagainst Panama in the last minute of...
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,...
GUATEMALA CITY (EFE) – In thisnorthernmost Central American country,considered the principal transshipmentpoint for South American cocaine boundfor the big U.S. market, at least seven...
SAN SALVADOR (EFE) – The politicaluse of the image of former SanSalvador Archbishop Oscar Romero,assassinated in 1980, could hurt hischances of being beatified –...
TEGUCIGALPA (EFE) – Governmentagents on March 20 arrested two Honduranssuspected of working with the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia (FARC),the hemisphere’s oldest guerrilla group.Gregorio Reyes,...
GUANACASTE residents need notlook far, much less make the trip to SanJosé, to find quality household items, furnitureand even an array of importedsupermarket products;...
PROGRESS is finally being made inthe slow-moving effort to select a new privateoperator for the Flamingo Marina, butboat owners won’t see an end any...
INCREASING tourism traffic for asecond year, Liberia’s Daniel OduberInternational Airport, in Guanacaste’s capitalcity, continues to create fresh real estateinvestors out of visitors with a...
