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Costa Rica’s Gold Rush: The Battle Over Mining in Corcovado

COSTA Rica passed a mining law in 1992 that prohibits prospecting in national parks without a permit. The following year, the government stopped issuing...

Meet Oscar: The Most Trusted Taxi Driver in Costa Rica

Then there are those humorous things that happen. Cascante remembers picking up one Canadian tourist at 3 a.m. one morning. After driving her from...

How the Sandinista Revolution Shaped Modern Nicaragua

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is calling on disenfranchised Nicaraguans to join a "new revolution of the conscience" in celebration of the 25th...

Costa Rican Campesinos Fight Dole Over Bambuzal Farm In Cathedral Protest

IT could be months before the 120 campesinos living in the Metropolitan Cathedral in downtown San José trade their bedrolls and protest signs for...

Costa Rica Documentary Features Campesinos

A group of six students from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) has produced a documentary that aims to raise awareness about the situation...

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 Revolutionary Hero Eden Pastora Returns to Politics in Mayoral Race

MANAGUA – It has been 26 years since Edén Pastora captured the world's attention as the dashing "Comandante Cero" who led a daring 1978...

Reagan Death Sparks Bitter Memory of Contra War in Nicaragua

GRANADA, Nicaragua – The death and mourning of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) this week forced Nicaragua to revisit its recent bloody past,...

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...

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