As of February 2013, you will require a digital signature for any bank transaction via Internet. This was reported by the Banco de Costa Rica as part of new plans to implement the National Electronic Payments (SINPE).
This year, BCCR...
Why are real estate developers turning their eyes to Costa Rica’s Southern Zone?
Real estate developers have been snapping up available properties in Costa Rica’s OSA peninsula, which is considered by many to be one of Central America’s best places...
A total of 26,409 people went from Costa Rica to Nicaragua, crossing the border of Peñas Blancas during the weekend, to spend Christmas and New Year in the neighboring country, reported the Directorate of Immigration.
The number of travelers to...
The former Costa Rican president and secretary general of the Organization of American States, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, was acquitted Friday in an appeal against the sentence of five years imprisonment that was imposed in 2011 by a case of...
The Inter American Development Bank (IDB) approved a standby loan of $ 100 million to Costa Rica to strengthen the country's capacity to respond to natural disasters.
The international agency said that due to its geographical location, Costa Rica is...
A Costa Rica ban on in-vitro fertilization has been struck down by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, making it what some groups are calling more possible for other Latin American countries to achieve better access to abortion and...
The 2012 Mayan Prophecy has been horribly distorted and misunderstood. The End of the Mayan Calendar on December 21, 2012 has nothing to do with the “End of the World”, but in fact December 21st, 2012 marks the beginning...
The Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister, Anabel González, declared today she is honored to be a candidate to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO) and pledged to create an agenda "to further drive growth and development in all countries...
On Friday Costa Rica's president, Laura Chinchilla will attend the official celebrations of the Mayan era change in Guatemala, at the invitation of that country's president, Otto Perez Molina.
Chinchilla will travel tomorrow to Guatemala with her family, and Friday...
In the past 10 years, Latin America has shown tremendous growth supported by the strong economic and political reforms implemented during in the past 2 decades, the region, even during a global meltdown, managed to show significant growth patterns...
