Economists from the National University said the unemployment rate could be 18.6 percent when counting the number of people who have stopped looking for work.
With dengue cases up over 250 percent from 2012, the Health Ministry may start exploring ways to economically motivate Ticos to do more to clean up mosquito breeding grounds.
Kidney disease has become a leading cause of death for Central American farmworkers. But the only thing scientists know for sure is that the situation is getting worse.
LGBT advocates anticipate a decision this month on Costa Rica's first same-sex domestic partnerships while the Inter American Commission on Human Rights ordered the country to respond to a petition for gay marriage.
Carlos Arturo Espinosa lashed out at President Laura Chinchilla over her handling of the political scandal sparked by a private airplane THX loaned her in May.
