THE corruption scandals sweeping Costa Rica havetaken their toll on the nation’s international image,according to political analysts, and the damage hasn’tstopped there.The nation’s two...
THE Ethics Branch of the Government Attorney’sOffice has undertaken an unprecedented effort to collect atleast $17.2 million believed to have been paid as “commissions”or...
MANAGUA – Enabled by shiftingdemographics and a steadily decliningbirthrate, Nicaragua is entering a vital“window of opportunity” to make realheadway against poverty and underdevelopment,the United...
MATCHING trends in the UnitedStates, the 2004 presidential electionbrought U.S. voters out of the CostaRican woodwork to vote absentee.The U.S. Embassy in San José...
NOT only large corporations willbenefit financially from the reelection ofU.S. President George W. Bush – as theleader’s opponents allege – average citizensmay have also...
ABOUT 1,200 families living in ashantytown along the banks of a drainagebasin near Heredia, north of San José, facethe daily possibility that their houses...
USING Costa Rica as one of its subjects,the International Labor Organization(ILO) presented the results of a globalizationstudy and a list of recommendationsto soften the...
MORE than 100 former oreros – goldpanners and miners – who were evictedfrom Corcovado and Piedras Blancasnational parks in the southern Pacificregion are camping...
AUTHORITIES have announcedtourists can now carry copies of their passportsinstead of the originals when travelingwithin Costa Rica, a change designedto reduce rising rates of...
