In what may be the greatest series of flip-flops in Costa Rican political history, the Social Christian Unity Party's candidate for president has left the race for good, torpedoing Unity's hopes of mounting a serious campaign for the 2014 elections.
Larry Kraft is a former high-tech exec traveling the world with his wife and two kids to learn about the environment and the effects of climate change. Here’s what he discovered in Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest.
Environmentalists worry a nearly $1 billion port expansion plan on the Caribbean coast could damage sensitive ecosystems. Project managers say those concerns are unfounded. A government agency will decide who’s right.
Presidency Minister Carlos Ricardo Benavides rejected findings from Vanderbilt's regional public opinion survey that Ticos have the lowest support for their political system since 1978.
