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Costa Rica Coffee Industry Funds Research with NFT Sales 

The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE) and the Specialty Coffee Association of Costa Rica (SCACR) have partnered with non-fungible token (NFT)...

Costa Rica in Crisis: Tackling Unprecedented National Crime Wave

President Rodrigo Chaves once again called a meeting with the heads of other branches of government to try to stem the crime wave sweeping...

Over Half of Costa Ricans See Censorship in National Media Landscape

A new study by the University of Costa Rica offers fresh insights into how Costa Ricans perceive freedom of expression and their trust in...

Indigenous Groups in Guatemala Block Highways to Protest Attorney General

Groups of Indigenous protesters blocked highway sections in Guatemala on Monday to demand the resignation of the Attorney General accused of fabricating an alleged...

Nobel Prize Awarded for mRNA Vaccine Breakthrough

Researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way...

Pioneering a Blueprint to Combat Online Hate Speech in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is pioneering a bold new strategy to combat the alarming rise of online hate speech in Latin America. As highlighted by Faustina...
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The Little Differences of living in Costa Rica as an Expat

Every place where we live around the world has its own culture and lifestyle that make it a unique place to live. When we...

Costa Rica Expat Living: My Time in a Traditional Tico House

I once lived in a traditional rural Tico house. There are not as many around as there once were, but they remain a cheap...

Starlink Cleared for Costa Rica Launch, Bridging Digital Divide

Starlink, the groundbreaking satellite Internet service birthed by tech expert Elon Musk, has been greenlit to operate in Costa Rica by the Superintendence of...

Costa Rica Declares National State of Emergency Over Migrant Surge

The government of Costa Rica announced a state of national emergency on Tuesday in response to the dramatically increasing number of migrants crossing its...