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Environmentalists to Crucitas gold mine: Take a hike

    Costa Rican environmentalists announced Monday that they will march for seven days – covering roughly 170 kilometers – to protest the stalled open pit...

Crucitas Gold Mine Back on Hold

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...

Crucitas Mine Gets Green Light

The battle over the viability of the Crucitas gold mine in northern Costa Rica took a new course this week. On Friday, April 16, the...

Tribunal freezes Crucitas gold mine over possible ‘serious damage’ to environment

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...

Protestors against Crucitas turn out in force

The roughly one thousand protesters that gathered outside the Supreme Court on Thursday represented more than a frustrated crowd of oppositionists. The piles of people...

Growing Concern Over Crucitas Mine

MANAGUA – Responding to warnings that an open-pit goldmine on Costa Rica’s northern border could have “catastrophic” environmental consequences on Nicaragua’s San Juan River,...

Costa Rica environmentalists keep up pressure against Crucitas mine

A group of environmentalists and concerned citizens gathered in front of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) in San José Wednesday...

Experts: Las Crucitas Logging in Costa Rica Bad for Birds

At the center of the growing conflict over a planned open-pit gold mine on Costa Rica’s northern border is the great green macaw. This emerald...
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Costa Rica May Pay Private Doctors to Ease Appointment Backlog

Costa Rica’s public health system is again weighing a move that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago: paying private doctors directly to...

Astronauts begin NASA’s historic Artemis II lunar mission

Four Artemis II mission astronauts blasted off Wednesday aboard a massive NASA rocket on a journey that will take them around the Moon, the...

Nicaragua Rejects United States Claims of Holy Week Celebration Ban

Nicaragua denied Wednesday that it is prohibiting Holy Week celebrations, countering accusations from the United States and opposition voices that public processions have been...

What It’s Like to Be Agnostic in Costa Rica

Pura Vida may be the unofficial slogan of Costa Rica, but Vivir y Deja Vivir– Live and let live– would be equally fitting. Everywhere...