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During a visit to Managua last week, Iranian Vice President Ali Saeidlo forgave $164 million of Nicaraguan of debt in a effort to strengthen ties and economic relations with the Nicaragua government of Daniel Ortega.Saeidlo said he made the...

Landslides and Wash-outs Continue to cause Problems on Ruta 142 - La Fortuna & Nuevo Arenal - Still ClosedContinued rain and mudslides still causing problems as road workers struggle. The main Route 142 between La Fortuna and Nuevo Arenal...

The Costa Rica employment market is growing for several reasons.CAFA (Central America Free Trade Agreement) and instigated over $2 billion in foreign investment. Companies such as Intel, IBM, HP, Fujitsu, to name a few, have set up manufacturing and...

There were significantly fewer murders in Costa Rica in 2011 than in the year before as anti crime efforts implemented in 2010 and 2011 are now being reflected in the statistics.There were 474 when there was a total...

Latin America now being hailed as the fastest growing economic structure in the world has experts calling this century the Century of Latin America.With Costa Rica and Panama well established in many industry sectors that bridge Central and North...

President Laura Chinchilla met with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and asked the group to include Costa Rica's stone spheres of Diquís which are located in the south Pacific Coastal region of Costa Rica, to be...

Costa Rican surf experts will have their own Surf Cup. The event will take place next June 2nd at Playa Hermosa, in Jaco. The tournament will also serve as a pre-selection process to define the surfers who will make...

This week, at least 125 million people are watching the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual competition of singers from 56 countries across Europe and parts of the former Soviet Union. This year’s contest is hosted by Azerbaijan, a country...

A well-known principle at the quantum level in physics is that an object being observed is affected by the very act of observing it. It’s called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and it has tremendous psychological implications.Though the Heisenberg Uncertainty...