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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...

Costa Rica Extends Corporate Email Rule to End of 2026

Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly approved a measure in its first debate on Thursday that extends to December 31, 2026, the deadline for commercial companies...

Costa Rica President Labels Opponents Communists as Government Pulls Energy Bill

President Laura Fernández lashed out at lawmakers opposing the National Electricity System Harmonization Bill, calling them a "bunch of communists" and accusing them of...

Costa Rica Electricity Market Reform Faces Collapse After PLN Reversal

The National Liberation Party has announced it will vote against Costa Rica’s proposed electricity market harmonization bill, a decision that effectively blocks one of...
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18 Million Dead Bees and a Warning Costa Rica Cannot Afford to Ignore

Costa Rica’s beekeeping sector is raising alarm after APIPAC, the Association of Beekeepers United of the Central Pacific, estimated that pesticide exposure has killed...

Costa Rica’s Forgotten WWII Role Echoes on D-Day’s 82nd Anniversary

Eighty-two years ago today, roughly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, launching Operation Overlord to liberate German-occupied Western Europe — the single day...

Flesh Eating Fly That Spread Through Costa Rica Has Reached Texas

For decades, a small facility in Panama stood between the United States cattle industry and one of the most destructive parasites in the Western...

Mariale Acosta Crowned Miss Universe Costa Rica 2026

Mariale Acosta was crowned Miss Universe Costa Rica 2026 on Friday night at the Costa Rica Convention Center, completing a comeback that had made...