SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica – The government is clamping down on businesses and individuals who defraud the state by failing to pay taxes.
The government wants to curtail a runaway fiscal deficit that in 2010 was the highest in Latin...
Are the protests around the world, which even hidebound Time Magazine in America is featuring as ‘Person of the Year,’ auguring and catalyzing a global shift in consciousness?
The mass movements directed at governments around the world (with even villagers...
The most difficult question in philosophy is called ‘the problem of evil.’ I have reluctantly explored the issue since first having been directly exposed to evil in the last year of the Soviet Union.
But just what is it? Evil...
This prequel to the Shrek cartoon franchise, with Antonio Banderas as the heavily accented cat of the title, is an entertaining, if not rip-roaring spin-off
Puss in Boots
Production year: 2011
Country: USA
Cert (UK): U
Runtime: 90 mins
Directors: Chris Miller
Cast: Amy Sedaris, Antonio Banderas, Billy Bob Thornton, Salma Hayek,...
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica – Rodrigo Sánchez said it was a real estate opportunity he couldn’t refuse.
“A friend of mine told me about this business,” Sánchez, 50, said. “He said that he would pay $3 million colones (US$5,967) and...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazil wants 2014 to be the year the World Cup goes green. The road to a sustainable soccer competition begins with the 12 stadiums of the host cities.
In order to obtain financing from the Brazilian Development...
For a nation that prides itself on the beauty of its environment and the diversity of its ecological heritage, Costa Rica has been remarkably slow in joining the “green” movement, which for several decades has been taking root around...
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica – José Rodríguez, an artisanal fisherman in Puntarenas, has minutes to make a deal every morning on the docks overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
“I have to sell my fish all at once because if not, I...
BARCELONA, Spain – FC Barcelona President Sandro Rosell has a simple message for Lionel Messi: You aren’t going anywhere.
Rosell said this week he has no plans to let the reigning two-time FIFA World Player of the Year depart the...
The one and only thing that George W. Bush did right during his miserable eight years in power as the president of the most powerful nation on earth, was to implement a more effective AIDS, malaria, and TB policy...
