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The British Captain Who Revolutionized Costa Rica’s Coffee Trade

When devout Christian Capt. William Le Lacheur first arrived in the Pacific port city of Puntarenas in the mid-19th century, he was horrified at...

Maleku Center Combines Tourism With Costa Rican Indigenous Culture

A burgeoning new cultural center near Arenal Volcano is providing an incentive for cultural preservation for an indigenous group facing high unemployment and the...

When the Saints in Costa Rica Go Marching in the San Ramón Parade

A colorful parade of saints lined up along the aisle of the church in San Ramón during the last weekend of August as the...

Scientists Seek Frogs In Costa Rica’s Monteverde Forest

British researchers are in Costa Rica looking for sunbathing tree frogs. Poking around in the damp brush of the Monteverde cloud forest in the...

The Untold Story of Costa Rica’s Independence from Spain

We like to think that independence came peacefully to Central America on Sept. 15, 1821. It’s true there were no bloody conflicts as there...

Market Speculators Could Be Affecting Coffee Prices

MANAGUA Nicaraguan coffee producers should be wary of rising coffee prices that may be unrealistically inflated due to speculative buying by commodity investors, said...

New Coffee Culture Taking Root Here

MATAGALPA Lesther Valladares, 32, grew up in the foothills of Nicaragua s prime coffee country. But like most other Matagalpinos, Valladares learned at a...

Beaches in Costa Rica are Not for Germ-a-Phobes

Some of the Pacific coast’s most popular beaches are dangerously polluted with sewage runoff, according to a broad study by the Costa Rican Water...

Nicaragua coffee exports heating up

Nicaraguan coffee exports shot up 48.9 percent in the first 10 months of the 2007-08 harvest compared with the year before, according to the...

Costa Rican Coffee May Be Outta This World

Astronauts and space tourists may soon enjoy Costa Rican-style coffee while in orbit thanks to a recent invention that works without gravity and uses...

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