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Lax Immigration Enforcement Alarms Watchdog

The state’s failure to enforce immigration laws threatens national security, a government report found this week. Immigrants are outstaying their visas, deported foreigners are reentering...

Confab Aims To Hone English Teaching Skills

As President Oscar Arias' administration stalls on a national plan to improve English instruction, private groups are stepping in to help teachers hone their...

Granada Hopes for High Season Rebound

Businesses owners in Granada are crossing their fingers in hopes that the clearing skies and recently improved energy situation here will help rejuvenate this...

What’s Really at Stake with the Trade Pact?

What’s really at stake with the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA)? As the nationwide vote on the most debated issue in...

Officials Target Human Trafficking

JACO, Puntarenas – Nubia Ordóñez never planned to sell her body to pay off debt. Nor did she plan on having to escape from...

Priest Assists Evicted

Approximately 40 displaced families from La Candela, evicted just days before President Oscar Arias took office on May 8, 2006, have taken matters into...

Activists Call for Coco Building Moratorium

In the face of blistering development that residents claim leaves them with barely a dribble at the kitchen sink or shower, the Guanacaste Brotherhood...

Costa Rican Community-based Tourism Group Makes First Foray into Nicaragua

It was a gangly, vine-draped affair, about 20 feet high, with scraggly branches drooping moss like flabby triceps – hardly suitable for a monkey,...

RV Caravan Traverses Central America

Amid a fleet of RV trailers camped out at the Belén Trailer Park in San Antonio de Belén, west of San José, Barbara Gutmann,...

Esterillos Beach Resort Dispute Heats Up

Accusations are flying high in an escalating legal battle over a multimillion-dollar luxury beach resort in the central Pacific coast town of Esterillos. The case...

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Costa Rican Surfer Carden Jagger Advances at ISA World Junior Championships

Carden Jagger, a 14-year-old surfer from Playa Grande in Guanacaste, has moved forward to the third round in the under-16 division at the 2025...

Yamil Bukele Takes Over El Salvador Soccer Federation After FIFA Intervention Ends

Yamil Bukele, brother of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, took office Friday as president of the country’s soccer federation (Fesfut), pledging to run the organization...

WestJet Expands Canadian Access to Costa Rica with Vancouver-Guanacaste Service

WestJet started its direct service from Vancouver to Costa Rica yesterday, landing with 153 passengers at Guanacaste Airport. This move broadens travel options between...

Costa Rica President Explores El Salvador’s CECOT Prison During Official Visit

President Rodrigo Chaves completed a two-day trip to El Salvador on Friday by walking through the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the region's largest prison...

Coming Home to Costa Rica on a Midnight Flight

My flight was scheduled for a late evening arrival. I prefer flying into Costa Rica in the daytime hours. From a window seat I...
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