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Tilaran Festival Schedule of Events
Expo Fair Tilaran 2011 starts today! This two week festival takes place in Tilaran, a town known for ecotourism, sustainable development, culture, and the spectacular Arenal Lake and Volcano. This festival is going to be a great time and...
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Court rules Nicaragua to remove troops from Calero
The International Court of Justice in The Hague has ruled that Nicaragua must remove its troops from Isla Calero, the small island on the south side of Rio San Juan.
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Beyond Belief
Martin LeFevre, TheCostaRicaNews.comWe met at one of the 50,000 Starbucks (5 in this small city alone). She was a Christian from Africa, but she had been in the States long enough not to reveal that until well into our...
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Costa Rica hold Argentina, minus Messi, to a goalless draw
Many had expected an easy win for Argentina over Costa Rica, but the Messi-less South Americans failed to score a goal against the heroic fighting Costa Ricans.
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Things Are Heating Up
Martin LeFevre, TheCostaRicaNews.comAs the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, as well as the upheavals in the Arab world attest, cosmic intelligence is upping the ante on humanity. Not out of some human-projected sense of punishment (there is...
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Costa Rica’s New National Stadium: Schedule of Events
Costa Rica’s new National Stadium opens it’s doors to the public this Saturday, kicking off the inauguration with a soccer match between Costa Rica and China.
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The UN Comes Up to the Mark
Martin LeFevre, TheCostaRicaNews.com.On March 11, I visited the little known birthplace of the United Nations--Muir Woods on the Marin Peninsula near San Francisco. This was before the Security Council passed Resolution 1973 to prevent more civilian massacres in Libya,...
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Obama’s Latin American trip sparks new era – Clinton
President Obama’s trip to Latin America will lay the foundation for a new era, Hillary Clinton said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. on March 18.
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Across Oceans and Centuries
Martin LeFevre, TheCostaRicaNews.com.On a gray and chilly afternoon without a car, I have to give myself a nudge to get out on the bike into the country for a sitting. But the dreary day is instantly forgotten when a...
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Do You Want to Know the Officials Who Govern Your Local Community in Costa Rica?
At the municipal level in Costa Rica, each person has between 23 and 35 local authorities.The number sounds a...