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TCRN Staff$2.8 million to supply Costa Rica's Immigration Authority with Foreign Resident CardsThe credentials feature optical security media, the same technology at the heart of the U.S. "Green Card." Delivery of cards is expected to be completed by the...

TCRN StaffCosta Rica is 189 years old, and she looks great!!! How far has she come in 189 years? What makes Costa Rica the “The Jewel of Central America”?Interestingly enough… Costa Rica was the first Central American country...

A preliminary ruling last week by the Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica's Supreme Court (Sala IV) that police cannot stop and search citizens without “a solid indication that the person has committed a crime” has caused strong opposition.Public Security...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreSociety and SolitudeThe world grows more parlous with each passing month, with no sign of genuine hope for humanity’s future. Here in ‘the greatest country in the world,’ the idea and image of America is...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreOverhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock—solid and sharp edged protrusions from the gently sloping grasslands behind them. Many have huge slabs balanced on top of them, some looking like they had been...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreI had a cousin, born a few days after I was in the same Midwestern town, with whom I was close growing up. In some ways Mike and I were as different as night and day,...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreChina just passed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Never mind that per capita income in China is still at Algeria’s level. It’s an important milestone, though it raises the question of qualitative...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreThe first hint of autumn is in the air. There’s a subtle change of light and atmosphere, and more tangibly, a new breeze in the treetops. The first, lightly anchored leaves are falling into the creek....

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreOne of the best studies of good and evil by an American writer is Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” If you haven’t read the novella, there’s an excellent 1962 film with the same title, which stars, and...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveIt’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead of me with some small animal...