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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...

Costa Rica Says Hello to China, Goodbye Taiwan

It was on a rainy June night that Costa Rican President Oscar Arias dropped a bombshell: Costa Rica was switching diplomatic relations from Taiwan...

Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega Shook Up Politics as Usual

The return of President Daniel Ortega started off the year with most Nicaraguans feeling optimistic about change and giving the Sandinista leader the benefit...

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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