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by TCRN StaffIn Concepcion desperation has led to hundreds of people looting supermarkets where the vast majority of the population has no potable water, electricity and basic necessities after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday. The capital of the...

by TCRN StaffAlthough the new traffic fines are soon to be in effect, officials refuse to enforce them for fear of reprisals from the drivers and doubts raised about the implementation of sanctions.That is the most drastic response adopted...

Contributor – Meditations Martin LeFerveAfter a couple of beers at the local brewery, my atheist friend made the oft-heard claim that Jesus never existed. When I retorted with the cliché that he was throwing the baby out with the bathwater,...

by TCRN StaffChile was struck yesterday by an earthquake registering 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale, one of the strongest in history, which killed at least 708, with 15 missing and leaving two million homeless.President Michelle Bachelet declared the...

by TCRN StaffThe Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) reported that the new San Jose-Caldera highway is covered by the new 3G cellular network for 90% of the trip.To achieve this level of signal penetration, ICE placed several "node Bs"...

The official confirmed a report in The Washington Post that a Republican and two Democrats had emerged as leading candidates to be among Obama's six appointments to the panel.The newspaper said that Republican David Cote of Honeywell and Democrats...

by TCRN StaffThe President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, began on Monday a tour of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and El Salvador focused on expanding investment, solidarity with Haiti's reconstruction and the search for formulas for a rapprochement...

by TCRN StaffPlaya del Carmen, Mexico - The president elect, Laura Chinchilla, will arrive this afternoon in the Mexican Caribbean area to begin her first contacts with American colleagues.Chinchilla is expected to accompany the president, Óscar Arias, to the...

by TCRN StaffA recent study, prepared by the State of the Nation and the National Institute of Women (INAMU), reports that on average a female worker in Costa Rica receives ¢74 to every ¢100 males receive for the same...