Costa Rican Coffee – Costa Rica’s Annual Cup of Excellence Highlights Best Coffee in Association with The Institute of Costa Rican Coffee, selects Winner. If you are a coffee lover, there is no better place to be than in Costa Rica. Ask any tico and they will tell you the same. If you ask which [...]
PAC leaders look to for agreement on Executive Committee as the Costa Rica ‘Politica’ scene ramps up for 2014 Elections This past week, two of the five candidates Citizen Action Party (PAC) came to an “agreement” regarding the positions of the Executive Committee. The agreement between Juan Carlos Mendoza and Luis Guillermo Solis angered other [...]
The heat continues to be turned up on President Laura Chinchilla after it was revealed that she used a private jet owned by Gabriel Morales Fallon who is a Colombian business man suspected of having links to narco trafficking, and was also questioned by authorities in Costa Rica for money laundering. This past week, Chinchilla [...]
The latest surveys show Costa Ricans dissatisfaction with Laura Chinchilla is continuing to grow. Current surveys show 50+% of Costa Ricans rate Chinchilla Bad or Very Bad. Laura Chinchilla has the second worst president assessment in the last 35 years, only surpassed by Rodrigo Carazo and currently there are an increasingly number of people who [...]
According to the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) they invested 62,300 million colones buying fuel for electricity generation in thermal energy sources following an intense dry season. ICE said they acquired a total of 56 million liters of diesel, and made the purchase of 83 million liters of bunker fuel. The Services Regulatory Authority (ARESEP), [...]
Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica has invited the President of China, Xi Jinping to visit the country. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic, Carlos Roverssi, said that in recent days the president extended an invitation as part of a tour to Latin America and make a stop in Costa Rica. Jinping became President of [...]
A proposed pipeline running from Mexico to Colombia was one of the topics discussed at the last summit of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the United States as a solution to power generation. The Minister of Environment and Energy (MINAE) René Castro said that discussions for the option of a gas pipeline Mexico [...]
The global “March Against Monsanto” will be on May 25th, here in Costa Rica, protesting the production of gene-modified seeds. The activists from countries including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the U.S. and Chile, among others, will march to protest the Monsanto company interference in the production of gene-modified seeds. A Costa Rica a meeting [...]
Yesterday President Laura Chinchilla signed a measure that will cap spending of six institutions that provide public services. The move is designed to mitigate and regulate future rate increases for electricity, water and fuel as well force these institution streamline their operating costs. Chinchilla imposed a spending cap on Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), Costa [...]
President Barack Obama finished a three-day tour of Mexico and Costa Rica, praised the economic progress of Mexican and Central American leaders, and addressed poverty and security issues. Obama spoke out for greater trade and economic cooperation with neighbors in the southern United States, arguing that economic prosperity is the best antidote to drugs and [...]
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