Police arrested two men — including a U.S. citizen — in Costa Rica's Corcovado National Park last week during a ground mission to expel illegal hunters and gold miners from the renowned nature sanctuary.
As many as 40,000 illegal miners — mostly poor, Quechua-speaking laborers from Peru's Andean highlands — have invaded some of the most pristine and biologically rich sections of ancient forest in the Amazon basin. In just a few years, they have laid waste to more than 120,000 acres, leaving behind Amazonian deserts of pestilent orange craters that bleed into the rivers when it rains.
After months of saber rattling, Infinito Gold, Ltd. announced Monday that it had filed for a Request for Arbitration with a World Bank court in its protracted dispute with the government of Costa Rica over the canceled Las Crucitas gold mining concession.
Costa Rican gold mining company Industrias Infinito, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Infinito Gold, Inc., this week filed an appeal with the Supreme...
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After distancing her government from the stalled and controversial Crucitas open-pit gold mine in Costa Rica's northern zone near the Nicaraguan border, President Laura...
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Costa Rican environmentalists announced Monday that they will march for seven days – covering roughly 170 kilometers – to protest the stalled open pit...
Costa Rica’s Administrative Contention Tribunal, an appeals court that reviews the actions of government agencies, has approved precautionary measures that prolong the suspension of...
Costa Rica´s Administrative Contention Tribunal has approved precautionary measures that prolong the suspension of work at the Crucitas open-pit gold mine in northern Costa...
Eight-time Grammy Award winner Usher has returned to Costa Rica, spending several days enjoying the beaches, tropical scenery, and luxury resorts of Guanacaste before...
Legislators from Costa Rica's ruling Pueblo Soberano party filed a constitutional reform on Tuesday that would allow presidents to serve consecutive terms. Its backers...
Costa Rican authorities have arrested a 22-year-old woman suspected of killing an American businessman inside his condominium in Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, bringing an...
