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The Tico Times visits Santa Teresa
Our team is in Santa Teresa this week, in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula.
We want them alive: Costa Rica’s reckoning
The waves of violence sometimes seem to lap against an indifferent shore.
On two coasts, communities mourn tourists’ deaths in Costa Rica
In Santa Teresa, on the west side of the Nicoya Peninsula, residents asked for increased police presence.
Search continues for missing woman in Montezuma, Costa Rica
The woman, Gerlinde Hahne, went for a walk on the afternoon of May 3 in the community of Delicias and has not been seen since.
Costa Rica studies longevity of its centenarian citizens
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According to the National Institute of Statistics and Census, there are currently 626 centenarians living in Costa Rica.
5 questions for a Costa Rican fire performer
Allan Barboza decided to work for himself as a fire performer at the age of 22.
Chanel’s new anti-aging serum contains Costa Rican green coffee
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Chanel is using an extraction process that results in an "ultra-pure, ultra-powerful" ingredient with 70 times more antioxidant active molecules than are found in regular coffee beans.
Mel Gibson in real estate row over Guanacaste beach property
A Channel 7 TV news report Tuesday accused the Hollywood star of illegally limiting access to a public beach and including public land in the listing for his $29 million estate in Guanacaste. The property’s representative denied any wrongdoing.
President Solís announces multi-million-dollar water improvements ahead of protests in Nicoya
President Luis Guillermo Solís has been traveling across Guanacaste all week to sell his administration’s response to the the northwestern province’s chronic poverty and recent crises of drought and poor water management leading up to his speech here Saturday afternoon.
Tom Brady tempts fate with waterfall jump in Costa Rica
“Never doing that again!” Brady posted on March 28. The video went viral with over 10.5 million views at this writing.