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Celebrate Costa Rica’s Annexation of Nicoya

LIBERIA is throwing its biggest party of the year and everyone is invited. The Guanacaste capital city is celebrating the Annexation of the province...

The Vanishing Catch: Life and Struggle on Costa Rica’s Isla Chira

ISLA CHIRA, Puntarenas – Traveling to this island, in the Gulf of Nicoya, is like traveling back in time. Life is simple and tranquil...

Exploring Costa Rica’s Best Dive Spots: Cocos and Caño Islands

Visibility is a big factor when divers decide where to drop into the water because the clearer the water, the more a diver will...

Nicaragua’s Coffee Crisis Worsens Extreme Poverty — World Bank Report Released

MANAGUA – Despite years ofdrought, the onset of a coffee crisis and thedevastation of Hurricane Mitch, overallpoverty in Nicaragua fell from 50.3% in1993 to...

1,000 Abuse Cases Reported Each Month

THE Child Welfare Office (PANI) last week reported that 1,000 complaints of child abuse are made to the emergency911 phone service each month. These...

The Unsolved Mystery of La Penca: 20 Years of Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Twenty years have produced conspiracy theories, accusations of both CIA and Sandinista involvement, and links to the Iran-Contra scandal. Twenty years have produced multimillion-dollar...

Coffee-Production Degree Brewing

THE Costa Rican Coffee Institute(ICAFE) and the University of Costa Rica(UCR) are teaming up to create a universitycourse on the art of processing coffee.The...

Orchid Trees: The Hardy and Beautiful Addition to Your Home Garden

If you are a fan of orchids, then you will love orchid trees. Where orchids only flower once a year, the trees flower most...

Cultivating Tradition: Organic Cacao and Chocolate Making in Costa Rica

BRIBRI DE TALAMANCA – Most chocolate is sweet. For a group of organic farmers in Talamanca, in Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean zone, cultivating cacao...

Cane Cutting in Costa Rica: Harsh Reality for Nicaraguan Laborers

Eighty machete-wielding cane cutters have swiped at the charred stalks in Grecia, in the Central Valley, since late January. After burning the undergrowth to...

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