The mayor of the provincial capital of Liberia announced today that a Disney theme park would be built in Costa Rica's northwestern province of Guanacaste in 2014 or 2015. But a Disney spokeswoman said the rumor is "false."
A $560 million loan over the next 40 years will hopefully bring Costa Rica closer to its goal to generate 95 percent of its electricity with renewable resources.
More than 60 percent of Ticos said that someone would take advantage of them, given the chance, but almost as many said they would pay more in taxes to help those in need.
Roma and Luda Gimelfarb have visited Costa Rica annually for the past four years to search for their son, David, who disappeared in 2009. This year, they were met with a $250,000 extortion attempt by would-be kidnappers claiming to have David.
President Barack Obama accused conservatives in the House of Representatives of waging an "ideological crusade" by making government funding conditional on gutting his health reform law.
Costa Rica tied Jamaica on Tuesday night. An hour later the Ticos booked their ticket to Brazil, thanks to the U.S. knocking off Mexico and Honduras tying Panama.
Costa Rican police conducted a groundbreaking operation, seizing five capybaras—a non-native species—in the country’s first recorded case of capybara trafficking. The seizure occurred during...
The Panamanian subsidiary of U.S. banana giant Chiquita Brands announced a mass dismissal of workers on Thursday, nearly a month after a strike that...
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, known for his powerful black-and-white images of the Amazon and global conflicts, died on Friday at the age of 81,...
