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Costa Rica Scouts Celebrate One Hundred Years

Scouts around the world are celebrating their 100th anniversary, and the organization, despite having passed through some difficult years, is as vigorous as ever. Scouting...

Costa Rican Mothers Honored on Special Day

With flowers, kisses and fanfare resembling that of Christmas, Costa Ricans gave their mothers extra doses of love Wednesday, even though it was work...

Learning in Costa Rica: Action Verbs Abound in Spanish

In my last column, I explained how I tortured my English composition students by forcing them to cut out the boring and inelegant verb...

Country Promotes Coffee in Japan

Getting cups of Costa Rican coffee into the hands of Japanese citizens is the goal of a group of sellers who visited Tokyo last...

August is Black Culture Festival Month in Costa Rica

This month marks the celebration of the ninth annual Black Culture Festival in honor of Black Culture Day, Aug. 31. First up in San José...

Scientists Develop Plan to Protect Costa Rican Jaguars

A map of Costa Rica’s jaguar populations reads like a dartboard after an assault by drunken bar patrons. Here and there, population centers are scattered...

China Interested in Buying More Tico Coffee

The Chinese government plans to send an official delegation to Costa Rica to look into importing more of the country’s coffee, according to a...

Costa Rica’s Biodiversity Crisis: How Climate Change Threatens 90,000 Species

Cram 90,000 species into a country the size of the U.S. state of West Virginia, add global warming and mounting threats from development and...

A Guide to Costa Rican Insurance Terms Every Expat Should Know

We have all heard of “legal speak” and “doctors’ jargon,” which nobody understands. The National Insurance Institute (INS) has invented its own “insurance speak”...

Guadalupe Urbina: Costa Rica’s Voice of Tradition and Transformation

Guadalupe Urbina is at home in many roles. Daughter of the proud traditions of Costa Rica’s northwestern Guanacaste province, she is folk singer and...

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