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Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreWhen asked where the capacity to be creative comes from, Eric Kandel, the Nobel Laureate neuroscientist, answers very assertively: “It comes from the brain!”Statements such as this reflect a growing scientism in the Western world,...

UPDATE: Second day of National Emergency. Rains are expected to continue for 2 more days. A large flash flood completely destroyed the neighborhood Lourdes, located in Aserrí. Throughout the effected areas there are 23 dead and 10 are known...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreJane Goodall, the aging but still very active doyenne of chimpanzee studies in the Gombe Reserve, Tanzania, was interviewed recently on America’s premier TV magazine show, “60 Minutes.” Watch Video. In the most evocative moment of...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreMartin LeFevre: It’s autumn in northern California, and the weather has changed with the season. Though cloudier and cooler, we’ve had little rain as yet.The leaves are beginning to turn, but it’s still warm enough...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreAhmed Khalfan Ghailani is a Tanzanian accused of playing a role in Al Qaeda's bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.He is the first Guantánamo prisoner to be tried in...

TCRN STAFF:Costa Rican migration authorities are considering restricting Mexican and Guatemalan visas to enter the country.We believe it is time to assess the desirability of more restrictive entry of citizens of both nations, as we have with Colombia and...

Featured Columnist – Political Correspondent - Latin American Relations Jennifer MayerTCRN STAFF: The Costa Rica News.com Jennifer Mayer“Don’t be such a Nica”. It may shock many that this insult is commonly heard around Costa Rica. It could come from the mouth of a...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreCan spiritual insight and political strategy go together? That¹s not an academic question to me, but a pressing, even personal one.There was a time, indeed the vast bulk of human history, when these two dimensions of...

TCRN STAFF:PLANE GOES DOWN WITH 173 KILOS DOWN AFTER TAKING OFF FROM TOBIAS BOLANOS PAVAS, west of San Jose with a shipment of cocaine that was destined for Guatemala.The aircraft was transporting 173 kilos of drugs and at 8:05...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreOn clear nights (in northern California there are few clouds for two-thirds of the year) I go into the backyard before bed to gaze up at the stars. Through binoculars for the past two weeks I’ve...