Bike advocacy group ChepeCletas, urban renewal group Pausa Urbana and others teamed up over the weekend to paint portraits on the ugly metal security gates along San José's Avenida Central. Watch the video here.
Costa Rica celebrated the holiday with news that it would start a carbon-neutral certification program for coffee producers as it remembered the damage caused by coffee rust fungus this year.
The couple of seven years said they have already appealed the judge's decision and encourage people to support volunteers collecting signatures for a gay marriage petition this weekend.
