Area hotel owners and guides say a lack of resources for law enforcement and insufficient response from the Costa Rican Tourism Board could damage the scenic Caribbean destination's reputation with visitors.
Warming temperatures and changing rain patterns favor harmful insects that attack the fruit, threatening the country's multi-million-dollar banana industry.
He couldn't stay away. Tim Rogers, founder of The Nicaragua Dispatch, announced a Kickstarter campaign last week to collect donations to revamp the English-language news source. He had put the publication on hold for his Nieman Fellowship, which began five months ago.
