Thousands of Evangelical Christians, Catholics and social conservatives in Costa Rica mobilized against perceived threats to the "traditional" family and pushed a constitutional amendment to define marriage between a man and woman.
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.
