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Costa Rica’s Ancient Treasures: The Jade and Gold Revolution

In my last column on Costa Rica’s extraordinary and prolific jade carving tradition, always involving high status and religious symbolism, we saw that significant...

A Balanced View on Nicaragua: Corruption, Progress, and Challenges

A recent “Perspective” article published in The Nica Times about corruption in Nicaragua (“A Revolution of Capitalism & Corruption” by Howard Cox, NT, Feb.26)...

Feeling Poor Relative to Others Makes You Worse Off

I recently read a research paper about how not just being poor, but simply feeling poor relative to your neighbors, makes you poorer, less...

Costa Rica Birders, Anglers Rub Shoulders in Caño Negro

As our launch glided sedately downstream, the word “teeming” came to mind at every twist in the river. After years of exploring Costa Rica,...

The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution

In 1979, the Sandinista Revolution overthrew 42 years of Somoza family rule in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas came to power promising democracy to the Nicaraguan...

Costa Rica Adventure Travel and The Minivan That Could

Somewhere between the Pacific beaches of Manzanillo and Coyote is a dusty track, theoretically a road, that wades pebbled rivers and climbs into herds...

7 Common Questions on How Elections Work in Costa Rica

1. Who can vote? Any citizen 18 or older and present in the country during the time of the election can vote. There is...

Latin American Coffee Exports Fail to Perk

Combined exports from nine Latin American producers of fine coffee dropped 39 percent in November compared with the same month last year, Guatemala’s National...

Filmmaker Blames Sandinistas for La Penca Bombing

MANAGUA – After a year of probing into the events of a terrorist attack in which he claims to have been an unknowing and...

Fishing in Costa Rica For Tarpon and Snook on the Río San Juan

The Río San Juan runs from Lake Nicaragua to the Caribbean coast on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Rich in history, the...

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