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Incentives Aid in Preservation of Green Spaces

THE balance between development and preservation is a challenge that city planners, environmentalists and politicians struggle with around the globe. Here in Costa Rica,...

Aid Cuts Get Increased Attention, U.S. Policy Raises Questions

Costa Rica is among the countries the United States has barred from receiving certain types of aid because they do not support U.S. efforts...

Donation Protects Peccary, Gives Hope for Jaguars’ Future

THE decimated peccary populations in Corcovado National Park have surged since March and may finally restore the numbers of the equally afflicted jaguars that...

What’s In a Name? The Origins of Popular Place and Street Names around San José

PASEO de los Estudiantes. Cuesta de Moras. Paseo Colón. Paso de la Vaca. All are place names that stand out among the numbered streets...

Leaders Seek to Bring New Life To San José’s Abandoned Core

(Part two in a two-part series on improving and repopulating San José.)AS developers’ eyes and investors’ pocketbooks remain fixated on urban sprawl east, west,...

Is a Better San José Possible? — Officials Plan Improvements for Capital

(Part one in a two-part series on improving and repopulating San José.)When government officials announced planson Wednesday to change some bus routes andrepave a...

First Central American Sleep Inn

THE newest place to sleep in San Joséis the brand-new Sleep Inn San JoséDowntown. It’s the first large hotel to bebuilt in the city...

Baby Turtle Study Fuels Park Debate

ACCUSATIONS that baby turtles were killed duringscientific experiments in Las Baulas NationalMarine Park have added fuel to an already tense debateabout the purpose of...

Government Seeks Homes For Orphans

Spitting through his half-toothless, 9-year-oldgums, a curly headed boy in the San Joséchildren’s home Hogarcito María sputtered ashopping list of the advantages of having...

Storyteller Connects Costa Rica with Noah’s Ark

WHO would have ever thought ofAlajuela as the Chosen City? Or thatobjects descending from above whilecrossing the Central Park were not mangoesor pigeons but...

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US Denies Military Base Plans in Panama Amid Public Outcry

An agreement signed by the United States and Panama a month ago does not allow for the installation of U.S. military bases in the...

Trump congratulates Pope León XIV, a “great honor” for the US

President Donald Trump congratulated León XIV, the first pope from the United States, in a message on his Truth Social network on Thursday. “Congratulations...

Historic Election of First American Pope: Cardinal Robert Prevost Becomes Leo XIV

In a groundbreaking moment for the Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born prelate, was elected as the first pope from the United...

35 Years of Change: An Expat’s Nostalgic Look at Costa Rica’s Past

A relative newcomer to Costa Rica recently asked me what changes I had witnessed over the past 35 years of living here. I said...

Costa Rica Orders Halt to Illegal Building in Protected Forest

The Osa Environmental Prosecutor’s Office has received a court order to stop a residential construction project in the Paso la Danta Biological Corridor in...
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