Over the last few years San José has been enjoying something of a cultural renaissance. One of the key contributors to this blossoming art scene is the San José Art City Tour.
The Agua Zarca dam, which Goldman prize winner Berta Cáceres has been fighting since 2013, would displace hundreds of indigenous Lenca people and affect other communities downstream.
So far this year, Costa Rica has generated all of its electricity without burning fossil fuels. But despite the excitement, statistics from the Environment Ministry show that this achievement does little to reduce the country’s overall reliance on fossil fuels.
You'd think former Tico Times reporter Rebecca Kimitch would be celebrating the night after her Pulitzer win. She wasn't - she was working on a new story. During a short break from her writing, she discussed with an old friend the future of journalism, her memories of Costa Rica, and a 15-year journalism career that, from the looks of things, is just getting started.
Michele Leonhart, who has served at the helm of the DEA since 2007, has come under heavy criticism on Capitol Hill since an inspector general report last month documented a series of episodes in which agents hired prostitutes. Agents were also found to have had sex parties with some women hired by Colombian drug cartels.
Rebecca Kimitch won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting as part of a three-person team at The Daily Breeze of Torrance, California, for their investigation of a local school superintendent's excessive salary and perks. Her fifteen years’ experience as a journalist include more than two years at The Tico Times, where she worked from 2004 to 2006.
