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Overlooking a long section of the creek (which has become a small raging river after an unprecedented mid-May storm in California), I heard a terrible squawking and squealing to my left. The hideous life and death shrieks came from...

I lived in a gentrified section of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco for a while in the 1980's, about ten years after the hippie movement that began in ‘the Haight’ ended in America. I noticed a funereal trend with young...

‘Narcissistic’ is a word being heard a lot in America these days. Someone even wrote to me in the past week saying, without a hint of irony, “I started meditating last spring and have truly grown to love and...

The Latin American and Caribbean region showed great resilience to the international financial crisis according to a newly released U.N. report on foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2010. Costa Rica was the second largest recipient in Central America.

Henriette Jacobsen, TheCostaRicaNews.comThe magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck at 4:47pm in the northern center of Costa Rica Friday and was felt throughout most of the country. The tremor was 65 km deep and the epicenter was 6 km North of...

A reader wrote with a question that goes right to the heart of remaining inwardly alive in a dead culture: “In the negation of thought, when we experience the still place within us--isn't this when fragmentation has the potential...

The governments of Costa Rica and Nicaragua agreed Thursday to coordinate efforts to pursue jointly organized crime units who are mobilized across the border.

Martin LeFevreIt’s the warmest day of the year so far. But the creek that runs through town, with its adjacent parkland on either side, is still running cold and fast. Amazingly, a large family group of about 15, young...

A strong wind advisory for late morning and all afternoon is all the prompting needed to get out on the bike for a ride into the country. The first sight of the sparklingly clear, snow-capped mountains confirms the decision,...

Martin LeFevre, TheCostaRicaNews.comThere’s a scene in a classic Paul Newman movie, “Hombre,” in which two men look down from a shack where they’re trapped upon a woman tied to stake in the desert heat, crying out ever more weakly...