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Costa Rica Real Estate: Dollars vs. Colones for Property Purchases

Buying property is a substantial investment and inevitably contains a certain level of risk. This is especially true in a foreign country where there...

Coffee Producers Sorting Finest Beans

With the harvest drawing to a close, Costa Rica's coffee growers have begun separating out the cream of their crops for the Taza de...

Costa Rican Woman Finds 8-Foot Boa Wrapped Around Car Engine

Ah, tropical living. It has everything: piña coladas, swaying palms, rosy sunsets… the eight-foot-long boa wrapped around the engine block of your sport utility...

Coffee Exports Up 46.6% in Two Months

MANAGUA – Coffee exports are up 46.6% during the first two months of the 2007-08 harvest in relation to the same period last year,...

Costa Rica’s Annual Palmares Fiestas

This Wednesday will see the opening of the Palmares Fiestas, an annual orgy of food, drink, sport and culture in the coffee town of...

Beach Land Occupants in Costa Rica Are Renters, Not Owners

Dear Tico Times: Your recent front-page article Property Owners Reeling from Tax Sticker Shock (TT, Dec. 14) is very deceptive in characterizing Maritime...

Certified Coffee Makes Inroads

FINCA EL RECREO, MATAGALPA – Strange, really. No snake bites. No amputees from machete accidents. No injuries from drunken fights. Zero malaria. It’s a wonder...

Gritería Festival in Nicaragua: History, Culture, and Debate

Nicaragua's traditional “gritería” (Shout), celebrated every Dec. 7 in honor of the Immaculate Conception, marked its 150th anniversary last week amid debate over the...

Costa Rica Property Owners Reeling From Tax Sticker Shock

The beaches of Malpaís were just another slice of paradise – until the tax bill arrived. Catherine and Michael Wood, U.S. citizens who first...

Afro – Costa Rican Women Tackle Invisibility

Karla Samuels, 20, has no shortage of examples of what it’s like to be an “invisible” visible minority. A second-year student of sociology at the...

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