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Costa Rica Job Losses Mount as Major Companies Cut Operations

Job creation has struggled to gain momentum in Costa Rica, while business closures and corporate restructuring have resulted in the loss of at least...

Costa Rica Red Cross Considers Ending Overnight Shifts at 20 Branches

The Costa Rican Red Cross is considering eliminating overnight shifts at 20 local branches as financial pressure continues to affect its emergency-response network. The...

Costa Rica Moves to Restrict Imports Linked to Forced Labor

Costa Rica is setting up a new system to keep goods made with forced labor from entering, a move that comes a little more...

Rebeca Grynspan Strengthens Lead in Race for UN Secretary-General

Costa Rican Rebeca Grynspan topped an informal United Nations Security Council vote for the third time on Tuesday, in what appears to be growing...

Polarization in Costa Rica is Rooted in Ancient History

At the University of Oxford, we have been helping to build a vast database of world history capable of explaining why some civilizations grow...

Costa Rica El Niño Plan Warns of Major Water Supply Risks

Costa Rica is preparing for possible water shortages affecting hundreds of thousands of people as the strong El Niño weather pattern continues to reduce...

Costa Rica Takes Growing Role in U.S. Deportation Program

Costa Rica has quietly become an important destination in a growing U.S. deportation program that sends migrants to countries they are not from, leaving...

Fernández Says “I Am the President” Amid Backlash Over Tovar Firing

President Laura Fernández has delivered her strongest defense yet of the sudden firing of Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar, warning her entire Cabinet that major...

Tovar Firing Leaves Costa Rica Without a Foreign Minister for UN Speech

Costa Rica is days from its UN General Assembly address with no confirmed speaker, as a timeline of the Trump meeting dispute and warnings from former diplomats raise new questions.

Costa Rica Fires Foreign Minister After Trump Meeting Dispute

President Laura Fernández fired Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar today after saying he failed to tell her about a high-level security meeting with U.S. President...

Costa Rican Lawmakers Reject Minute of Silence for Man Who Died in ICE Custody

Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly yesterday rejected a motion to hold a minute of silence for Carlos Josué Marchena, a Costa Rican man who died...

Costa Rica Pilot Faces Discipline After Aviation Safety Criticism

Costa Rican police pilot David Damazzio Fernández faces possible suspension or dismissal over media comments about aviation safety oversight and criticism posted on social media.

Costa Rica Population Could Begin Shrinking Earlier Than Expected

Costa Rica's population could begin shrinking earlier than previously expected as the number of children being born continues to fall faster than population experts...

Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan retakes lead in race to head the UN

Costa Rican economist Rebeca Grynspan moved back to the front of the race to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations on Friday....
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Costa Rica Opens Probe Into Political Ties of Man Wanted by US DEA

Costa Rica's attorney general will investigate whether a naturalized Costa Rican detained for extradition to the United States had political ties or helped finance...

Costa Rica’s Playa Sámara Residents Push to Restore Long-Damaged Mangrove

Residents of Playa Sámara are pushing for the restoration of the Río Lagarto mangrove, an ecosystem that environmental authorities say was heavily altered by...

Route 32 to Costa Rica’s Caribbean closed after overnight landslide

Route 32 closed overnight at Zurquí after a landslide. Here's what it means if you're driving to the Caribbean today.

Costa Rica Sets Oct. 14 Opening for Maximum-Security Prison Modeled on El Salvador’s

The CACCO will hold up to 5,100 inmates tied to organized crime, opening months after its original deadline.