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 who´s “hearts…
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 judges 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 Rica. The tribunal´s…
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, Nicaragua’s National Assembly…
A group of environmentalists and concerned citizens gathered in front of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) in San José Wednesday to protest the…
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 parrot is…
