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What Costa Rica Taught Me About Loving a Reliable Truck

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I love my truck more than you love your vehicle. I’m not a car guy. I never have been. I always owned used vehicles...
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New Costa Rica Rules Could Void Shareholder Meeting Decisions

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Under Costa Rica law, several types of powers of attorney can be granted to allow one person to represent another. Although the term includes...
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Puriscal Is Becoming a Top Place to Live and Invest in Costa Rica

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In the hills southwest of San José, Puriscal has steadily become one of Costa Rica’s most appealing places for investors, retirees, and families seeking...
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Missing U.S. Tourist Found Dead in Costa Rica River

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Costa Rican authorities have confirmed the death of a missing U.S. tourist whose body was found in a river in a mountainous area of...
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Costa Rica Sees Dollar Below 470 as Colón Strengthens Further

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The wholesale currency market in Costa Rica opened the week on a note of continued colón strength. Yesterday, the weighted average dollar rate in...
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Costa Rica Faces Mounting Pressure as Aging Population Grows Fast

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Costa Rica is moving quickly toward a demographic shift that will test some of the country’s biggest public systems. What was once treated as...
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New Prepaid Card Lets Costa Ricans Pay Bus and Train Fares Without a Bank Account

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The Banco Central de Costa Rica presented the Monedero SINPE-TP this month. This prepaid contactless card lets people pay for rides on buses and...
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Costa Rica Wildlife Encounters at Home

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One of Costa Rica's main attractions is our plentiful wildlife. Tourists come to see monkeys, sloths, toucans and more in their natural habitats. But...
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What’s in a name? Naming nuance in Costa Rica

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We tend to assume the way names function in our home country is simply “normal.” Or at least I definitely did. As it turns...
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Cow Wrangling and Camera Trapping in Costa Rica

Vincent Losasso -
I had just successfully reviewed the first four of five camera traps in a sleepy little town tucked into a rich valley bordering the...
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Honduran Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesting Students

Honduran riot police fired tear gas Monday at students protesting a proposed cut to the budget of the National Autonomous University of Honduras. About...
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Panama Takes Custody of Flight 901 Bombing Attack Suspect

Panama took custody Monday of the main suspect in the 1994 bombing of Alas Chiricanas Flight 901, the deadliest terrorist attack in the country’s...
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Brazil’s Haddad Maia suffers brutal early exit at Madrid Open

For Latin American tennis fans looking for a strong clay-court push ahead of Roland Garros, Tuesday brought another setback. Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, the...
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Air Transat to Start Direct Quebec City Flights to Costa Rica

Air Transat will add a new nonstop route between Quebec City and Costa Rica starting December 15, giving travelers a direct link from Jean...
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