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In Latin America, Managua, Nicaragua is the cheapest city to live in according to study.Managua is the city of Latin America with the lowest costs to live in the case of the foreign employees of multinational companies.Nicaragua is also...

Two new towers are going up in San Jose’s Sabana Park bringing more construction and development to the area. Torres Duo consists of two buildings of 21 floors each.  This new housing project will join the current boom in...

The mind-as-thought has the unfortunate ability to go away from what is, and the human mind does so habitually and perennially. But the human brain also has the capacity to see things as they are in the moment.That capacity,...

A number of U.S. citizens have arrived in Costa Rica with the mistaken belief that living or working in a foreign country relieves them of their ongoing obligations to file tax returns

Kat Sunlove, TheCostaRicaNews.comIn my last column, I touched on the subject of the responsibility residents and visitors have in caring for the magnificent but fragile environment here in Costa Rica. In such a small nation, the importance of safeguarding...

Costa Rica is increasing flights into Guanacaste. Jet Blue flights will arrive in Liberia as President Laura Chinchilla and authorities in the tourism sector announced early this week in Zapote that the American company Jet Blue will provide four...

I pass two boys and their grandmother on the park path between my running intervals. The oldest, 8 or 9, already has the cloned look of America’s cultural depression stamped onto his face.He’s about 15 meters ahead of the...

The headline says it all: "Buddhists in dark as fire draws near."Thirty-nine Buddhists living at the Diamond Mound Retreat Center, near Bowie, Arizona, are about six months into a three-year solitary retreat that includes a vow of silence. To...

July 4th is not only the world famous Independence Day of the United States of America - in Costa Rica, it is also a date that lives in history.

The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the park. It stopped and turned about 75 meters ahead, and then again at 50 meters. It was the size and shape of a dog, but moved like a cat.I...