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Costa Rica Targets Landowners Linked to Clandestine Drug Airstrips

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

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Costa Rica Gets Nonstop Delta Flights From New York

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Costa Rica Will Let Cubans Live and Work Legally

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Costa Rica Homelessness Has Grown Sharply Over the Past Decade

Costa Rica Targets Landowners Linked to Clandestine Drug Airstrips

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

President Laura Fernández has put the owners of clandestine airstrips on notice. Following the second meeting of her newly formed Fuerza Élite security task...

Costa Rica Gets Nonstop Delta Flights From New York

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

Delta Air Lines is bringing back nonstop service between New York City and Costa Rica's Guanacaste region, filing plans this week to fly from...

Costa Rica Will Let Cubans Live and Work Legally

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

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

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

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...

Canada Becomes One of Costa Rica’s Fastest-Growing Tourism Markets

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

The numbers tell a compelling story. In the first four months of 2026, Costa Rica welcomed 173,349 Canadian tourists arriving by air, a jump...

Sabalenka Stunned by Shnaider in French Open Quarterfinal Collapse

Steven Hodel - June 3, 2026

Roland Garros served up another seismic shock on Wednesday as world No. 1 and top seed Aryna Sabalenka squandered a set and a double-break...

Costa Rica Camera Traps Capture Rare Predator Hunts and Pregnant Jaguars

Vincent Losasso - June 3, 2026

Sometimes I record something interesting and I think ‘I should share this with the good people who read the Tico Times,’ but whatever it...

Costa Rica Grants US Extradition of ‘Macho Coca’ With Safeguards

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

An appeals court in San José has ordered the deferred extradition to the United States of Gilbert Hernán Bell Fernández, the Costa Rican businessman...