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Costa Rica’s Public Universities on Strike

Costa Rica’s public universities have declared an “active strike” in protest of what they say is inadequate government funding. While the country’s higher education...

Former Guatemalan Officials Charged with Killings

GUATEMALA CITY – A Guatemalan court issued international arrest warrants for three former senior officials in connection with at least 10 extrajudicial executions, the...

Heredia Begins Work On Sewage System

The Public Services Company of Heredia (ESPH) announced last Friday the initiation of a sewer and wastewater treatment project in theprovince ofHeredia.   Thirty million...

Indigenous Protesters Removed From Legislative Assembly

At 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, police forcibly removed two dozen  indigenous people who were staging a sit-in at the Legislative Assembly.   The...

Chinchilla Sets Agenda For Legislative Assembly

A number of high-impact bills are due to land on legislators desks this month as the Executive Branch takes charge of their agenda during...

Fishing Methods Cause Conflict, Kill Dolphins

The Billfish Foundation sent a formal letter Aug. 8 to Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla urging her to investigate recent attacks on sportfishing vessels...

Central Bank President Explains Changing

Twelve years after leaving his post as president of the Central Bank of Costa Rica (BCCR), Rodrigo Bolaños accepted President Laura Chinchilla s invitation...

Printmaker Branches Out to Canvas

Sala Ocho, upstairs at the National Gallery, is bathed in a resplendent silvery glow this month, with six, large-scale acrylic canvases by Alvaro Gómez...

Complainers Air Gripes on Local TV

Complainers are among the devilments of life. We all know people who return from a two-week dream vacation and tell us about all the...

Cultural Attitude Is Not the Whole Story

A Costa Rican friend of mine once described the Tico approach to getting things done as “a circular, tender, loving inefficiency, always the same,...

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