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Costa Rican cops discover possible cocaine-processing lab, four more helipads in latest raid

For a third time in recent weeks, police have found a clandestine site with evidence that points to drugs and arms trafficking. Residents reported seeing a green helicopter flying low in the area. No arrests were made on Friday.

Lineup announced for Envision 2014

Costa Rica's transformational festival will take place at a new location with shade, car camping and free access to the beach.

Costa Rican officials say dynamite may have caused mass turtle deaths discovered this week

Dynamite, longline fishing and disease were the top suspects Thursday, but now scientists have found an unusual stain in the water they believe could be red tide. Experts ruled out the theory that radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan could be to blame.

More than 3 tons of cocaine seized this year at Inter-American Highway hub

Peñas Blancas, on the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, accounts for a fifth of the total drug seizures in Costa Rica this year. In the latest bust, Costa Rican cops seized 430 kilos of cocaine from a passenger bus headed to Guatemala.

Conservation groups tell Costa Rica’s Chinchilla: Throw out the Fisheries Institute board

A new campaign hopes to pressure a move by President Laura Chinchilla to fire the board of directors of the Costa Rican Fisheries Institute, which is loaded with fishing industry insiders.

Hundreds of dead sea turtles could be headed for Costa Rica’s northwestern shores, officials say

The population of the nearly extinct Eastern Pacific green sea turtle will likely be severely affected by the recent mass deaths, according to biologists. Longline fishing and a mass dynamiting are suspected killers.

5 Costa Rican frogs that came back from suspected extinction and 1 that didn’t

After mass declines in populations in Costa Rica, scientists now have some hope for many of these tiny amphibians.

Guanacaste to break ground on $400,000 community center

In a region plagued by poverty, the community center will attend to underserved women and children.

Costa Rican women among the best educated, but least economically empowered, new index says

Nicaragua scored better than the United States and Costa Rica on this year's World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index.

The U.S. spent $7 billion to fight the drug war in Afghanistan, and guess what: The opium trade is growing

In its latest progress report on Afghanistan to the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon warned that the 2013 poppy harvest was expected to be "considerably" bigger than the 2012 yield as a result of warmer temperatures early in the season, the drawdown of NATO troops and the high price of poppies.

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