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On a recent trip with a friend traveling along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, we decided to stop in , Guanacaste, a place neither of us had previously visited.  As we rode over the last of the mountains...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - A total of 3,078,321 people will decide the next president of Costa Rica in the February 2014 elections, said the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).According to the TSE in a statement, the electoral roll...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - A trade increase of 35 percent, attracting $4.7 million U.S. dollars in investment, and better insurance and telecommunications services have been the main benefits to Costa Rica with the Free Trade Agreement between...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The more elaborate scenarios of climate change impacts indicate that half of Costa Rica to the north will experience increased drought, which encourage internal and external migration to the cities, especially in the...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The government of Costa Rica today expressed solidarity with the Philippines and Vietnam after Typhoon Haiyan, which has left thousands dead and severely damaged the countries.Costa Rica expressed profound sense of solidarity with...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Thousands of people protested  Monday against the Costa Rican government's market-oriented economic policies."These policies have come to destroy the institutions of social welfare we have in our country, replacing them with poverty and...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Venezuela's Gabriela Isler took the Miss Universe 2013 title Saturday at the finals of the world's most prestigious beauty contest, held at Moscow's Crocus City Hall.The 25-year-old Venezuelan will wear the gold and...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Although the demonstration just started today, the involvement for the strike is felt first in the schools of San Jose. From around 7:00 am there was not the usual feeling from the bustle...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - An earthquake of 4.5 magnitude was felt southwest of Samara, Nicoya, according to the National Seismological Network (RSN).The origin was by subduction of the Cocos plate. The quake had a depth of 17.8...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Drug Control Police of Costa Rica (PCD) seized 692.5 kilos of marijuana in a container that was located on a Caribbean port in the country, official sources said.The drugs were found after...