Eleven years after a pact between the Costa Rican government and Sea Shepherd was scuttled following a high-seas incident near Guatemala, the conservation group is back with a new office in San José.
The president expressed her “outrage” at Nicaragua’s "flouting" of the International Court of Justice’s precautionary measures regarding the border dispute between the two countries and called for harsher consequences for noncompliance with the world court's orders.
After more than a year in planning, the EU free trade agreement with Central America entered into full effect earlier this month, giving the region access to a market of more than 500 million Europeans.
The World Energy Council ranked Costa Rica as Latin America's energy sustainability leader in its 2013 report, thanks in part to the fact that the country generated over 90 percent of its electricity from renewable sources.
Costa Rica reached the third-highest penetration of Internet access in Latin America, but continues to lag behind many developing economies, according to a new report from UNESCO.
