The startup world is going crazy for apps in Costa Rica, as around the globe - but real estate on your little screen is more expensive than most hopeful entrepreneurs care to consider. "Doing Business" takes a look at the challenge of creating a solution that people will actually use.
"I think that in Costa Rica the cultural system should be modified. In Cuba I was a performer who taught. Here, I’m a teacher who performs." Pianist Leonardo Gell steps into our Weekend Arts Spotlight.
Mexican federal officials say marine special forces closed in on drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in the Durango-Sinaloa mountain region last week but that he slipped away, injuring himself in the leg and face because he fell while fleeing.
As high tourism season approaches, the rainy season peters out and the drought continues, Tamarindo struggles to make sure there's enough water to supply the town.
Grupo Rev plans to rake in the pesos this Halloween season with its newest ensemble of latex masks and prison attire that resembles the man who for years trafficked cocaine to the United States, shipped methamphetamines to Canada and distributed ecstasy to as far off as Europe.
Costa Rican indigenous leaders hope the long-delayed Indigenous Autonomy Bill might finally get a hearing in the Legislative Assembly as result of April’s Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ruling ordering the government to take precautionary measures to protect indigenous groups in the Salitre Indigenous Reserve in southwestern Costa Rica.
There was a time, not so long ago, when sloths were not considered adorable. That time has now passed and here at The Tico Times we want to make sure our readers get their fix of super cute sloth photos.
