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“Costa Rica,” said Dr. Rodrigo Gamez Lobo, longtime President of INBio (National Biodiversity Institute) “is complex enough to be interesting, and small enough to be manageable.” Thanks to modern technology, I had a tremendously informative conversation with Dr. Gamez...

CURITIBA, Brazil – Vera wanted to sing, but she lost her breath every time she tried to raise her voice.As one of the 24 inmates in the Águia News Choir, at the Women’s Work Release Center (CRAF) in Curitiba,...

Maracaibo, Venezuela – Coromoto Torres can’t wait for her first trip overseas.Her bags are packed, her airline tickets are purchased and several years of savings have given her a purse full of bolívares.All her passport needs is a departure...

Costa Rica is the best country brand in Latin America, says the seventh annual edition of the Country Brand Index (CBI), the global study of country brand strength by Future Brand, published last November 11th.The CBI analyzes countries around...

If there’s a more apt metaphor for the messy end of the Age of Oil, I haven’t heard it. A tanker truck loaded with driveway sealant burst a valve and leaked the gooey gunge along a nearly 40-mile stretch...

The builder La Laguna working hand in hand with the Teran family in May of 2004, gave shape to what is now the only golf course to the east of San Jose, the Monteran Golf Course. The Club House...

Happy Thanksgiving from The Costa Rica News.We give thanks for you, our appreciated readers. May your holiday season be filled with joy and love.

A high, thin layer of clouds fills the western sky, blunting the warmth of the sun and giving the land a subtly somber cast. The little stream on the edge of town is now full enough to create a...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua and GUATEMALA CITY – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has made it perfectly clear to Central America: It must do a lot more to stop the rise of the trafficking and consumption of synthetic drugs.That’s...

It was heavily overcast all day, and after working in fits and starts, I seize an urge to get out for a bike ride. Taking a half hour loop, I stop a short distance from the house and sit...