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Red Tape Slows Gas Spill Cleanup

Cleaning up a subterranean fuel spill with the potential to poison the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people is never simple –...

Implant Factory Opens Amid Export Boom

President Oscar Arias has cut countless ribbons and made cameos at innumerable inaugurations. But Tuesday was a first. “I have no doubt… that of the...

New Shopping Mecca Going up in Tamarindo

Residents of the northern Pacific coast who’d like to buy gourmet groceries, do their banking, rent movies, enjoy a great meal and peruse some...

Retired Doll Doctor Discusses His Trade

If the tale of Pinocchio had been set in downtown San José, Geppetto would have been named Mario Lizano and rather than a toymaker,...

Nip-and-Tuck Tourism Options Expanding

She lies limp on the operating table, like Christ on the cross, arms spread open, feet together. Her bare breasts and torso glisten with a...

New Kindergarten Stresses Play over Study

Kindergarten, Kelly Bardner says, should be fun, not stressful. So, when her 5-year-old son kept bringing back a nightly load of homework from a private...

Clock Vine, a Beautiful Climber

Are you looking for an ornamental to cover that fence bordering your neighbor for a bit more privacy? Here’s just what you’re looking for...

Artisan Group Transforms Trash into Cash

SAN LUIS DE MONTEVERDE, Puntarenas – On a drizzly day in the TilaránMountains, northwest of San José, 10 women work together under a corrugated...

U.S. Mission Donates Wheelchair Fleet

The implementation of Costa Rica’s Law for Equal Access for People with Disabilities (Law 7600) has resulted in the ever-so-slow installment of ramps and...

Costa Rica’s Education System Through the Eyes of Students

Greivin, Ariana and Steven are in the second grade. They share, as do many kids their age, an uncanny ability to morph from studious...

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Migration Through Panama’s Darién Jungle Sees Significant Decline

A total of 294,000 migrants have crossed the inhospitable Darién jungle en route to the United States so far this year, a 39% decrease...

Blessed Carlo Acutis Set for Canonization in Jubilee Year

Pope Francis has officially announced that Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized during the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year 2025, specifically at the Jubilee of...

Global Survey Highlights Costa Rica’s Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events

According to the Global Climate Action Survey 2024, conducted by Gensler, Costa Rica is among the countries most severely impacted by extreme weather events...

Costa Rica Expat Life: The Untold Story of Door-to-Door Sales Culture

If you live in a predominantly Tico barrio, you are likely familiar with vendedores ambulantes. These are the door-to-door salespeople who pass through selling...

Nicaragua Faces Backlash Over Ortega’s Constitutional Changes

Nicaragua’s President, Daniel Ortega, submitted a constitutional reform to Congress on Wednesday to consolidate total control over all branches of power alongside his wife,...
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