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Costa Rica watches the dollar climb after four years of a rising colón

After spending most of 2026 near record lows, the U.S. dollar has clawed back a little ground in Costa Rica over the past two...

Costa Rica Tax Revenue Keeps Falling as UNA Economists Urge Fiscal Reform

A public university research center has called a comprehensive fiscal reform "necessary and urgent," warning that Costa Rica's tax revenue has been sliding since...

Costa Rica Moves to Protect Jobs at Golfito Free Trade Zone

Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly approved a reform this week that gives commercial operators inside the Depósito Libre Comercial de Golfito something they have sought...

Costa Rica Raises Concern Over Russian Military Presence in Nicaragua

Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar expressed concern Thursday over the “significant presence of Russian military personnel” in Nicaragua, during an interview in Paris...

Costa Rica Included in U.S. Forced Labor Tariff Proposal

The Trump administration fired its latest trade salvo this week, announcing proposed tariffs of up to 12.5% on imports from 60 economies following a...

Costa Rica Will Let Cubans Live and Work Legally

Costa Rica has reactivated a special migration category that will allow thousands of Cuban migrants — along with nationals of Nicaragua, Venezuela and Colombia...

Costa Rica Homelessness Has Grown Sharply Over the Past Decade

An estimated 7,133 people were living in street conditions in Costa Rica in 2025, more than half of them in the capital, San José...

The Grocery Delivery Service Expats in Costa Rica Keep Recommending

If you’ve lived in Costa Rica long enough, you know grocery shopping can be a half-day to full-day project.  Great things are abundant in Costa...

A Hole in the Road and a Hole in the Economy: Route 27’s Sinkhole Crisis

It opened on a Wednesday afternoon in late May, and within hours, it had swallowed part of one of the most important stretches of...

Costa Rica Growth Expected to Slow as Global Risks Rise

The International Monetary Fund expects Costa Rica’s economy to slow in 2026, even as our country remains on solid footing compared with much of...
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Costa Rica’s Route 27 Sinkhole Repair Still Has No Clear Finish Date

Those heading between San José and the Central Pacific will need to keep planning around delays on Route 27, where the permanent repair of...

Costa Rica Sets National Parks Set Record But One Park Draws Just 26 People

Costa Rica's protected areas drew a record 2,970,516 total visits in 2025, a 13.7% increase over the prior year, according to figures attributed to...

US Restricts Visas for Nicaraguan Officials After Brooklyn Rivera’s Death

The US State Department announced Monday that it will restrict visa access for over 100 Nicaraguan officials and their family members following the death...

Costa Rica Camera Traps Capture Wild Fish Hunt in Guanacaste

I’ve been interested in wildlife my entire life. If younger me knew what I was up to these days, playing with camera traps in...