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.
Record-high dengue infections have cost Costa Rica millions in lost productivity, hospital stays and mitigation efforts. See The Tico Times' interactive map of dengue cases to monitor cases in your canton.
The bill aims to encourage more migrants to formalize their legal status, improving access to the legal system and easing the public burden of supporting workers who do not pay into the country's socialized health care system.
