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Costa Rica real estate has been getting a great deal attention in main stream media and with the growing babyboomer market looking for international opportunities, but were we have seen real growth is the luxury real estate market which...

The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) announced that it will build two new hydroelectric plants to operate in the area of San Carlos in order to bring the country a total of 80 megawatts of renewable power generation as...

Rodrigo Arias, brother of Nobel Peace Prize 1987, Oscar Arias, announced his retirement as presidential candidate for the National Liberation Party (PLN)."I will not participate in the National Liberation convention for the election of the candidate for the elections...

Investing Experts and economists believe that Spanish investing in Latin America will return even stronger after the recent expropriations in Bolivia and Argentina and agree employers should not fear for their business in countries that are key to the...

Latin America - Communication Minister of Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas, announced that president, Hugo Chavez, is suffering from a "severe lung infection that has led to respiratory failure." Further Chavez is also suffering from kidney failure on full life support...

Latin America News - According to the Spanish newspaper ABC , Hugo Chavez is in induced coma. The newspaper said that according to sources consulted by them, the president of Venezuela has very weak vital signs and kept alive...

Costa Rica News – Costa Rica birthrates are declining. In 2014 fewer children will be born, the projections of the Social Security Fund (CCSS) indicate only a slight increase for 2013on this and then begin a decline in the...

Costa Rica Weather for 2013 - The Institute for Climate and Water INTA show that the necessary conditions for the development of the climate phenomenon El Niño weakened, because the equatorial Pacific Ocean, after a very slight warming during...

Costa Rica News - Costa Rica closes 2012 with positive economic numbers, even though the poverty rate has not dropped significantly and a persistent fiscal deficit close to 4.5% of gross domestic product (GDP)."Economic growth for 2012 could be...

Costa Rica News – Costa Ric’s gas station industry, including carriers and fuel retailers, will meet in next week to define the strategy which will begin a national strike, the first of 2013.The effort is to put pressure on...