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The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - A couple of Dominicans were sentenced to eight years in prison in Costa Rica for the crime of human trafficking and sexually exploiting women in the south of the country.The sentence was imposed...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Accumulated inflation in Costa Rica during the first eleven months of 2013 was 3.16%, down from 4.26% in the same period of 2012, said the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).In November,...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rican authorities have seized more than 8,000 firearms since May of 2010, when the current government started until today, most of which was in the hands of criminal groups."Importantly, planned and preventive...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Judicial power of Costa Rica highlighted the progress in the digitization of the institution and the digital transparency as major achievements in their work report for 2013, which was released today.The president...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rica has created a technical standard that will allow companies to become certified in gender equality, which makes it the second country to have a tool like this of its kind in...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) – Today the U.S. chain Hard Rock Cafe will officially open its first store in Costa Rica with a concert of four Costa Rican bands and U.S. group Smash Mouth, reported the event organizers.The...

The leader of the National Circuit Kölbi, Jair Pérez Quiroz de Jacó, won the Reef Classic yesterday, the fourth date of the championship presented by the Junta de Protección Social, an action that puts him for now as the...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, said she is satisfied with Costa Rica’s third place ranking throughout Latin America and 49th place in the world on the Perceptions Index for Corruption released...

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The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The government of Costa Rica announced that starting next Saturday a museum will be open to the public in the south of the country, home of the mystical pre-Columbian stone spheres.The director of...