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Earthquake stirkes Central Valley

By Lance Harrell SAN JOSE - A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica Friday, without immediate report of victims and material damages. The Costa Rican Vulcanology and Seismology Observatory (OVISCORI) said the earthquake occurred at 3:20 p.m. local time (2120 GMT)...

Traveling Buddies

Submitted by Shari h. What a perfect trip! This was taken at the waterfall in Montezuma! The trail up to this series of falls is an easy and beautiful one.    

Bright outlook for Central American Coffee

An increased investment in coffee farms, climate forecasts and high harvest expected in the coming months will help to boost coffee production in Central America in the 2009/10 cycle, say members of the industry. The small Central American countries are...

Costa Rica Allocates $15 Million to Repair Bridges

SAN JOSE – The Costa Rica government announced that it is allocating $15 million for the reparation of 10 bridges, two days after a tragedy that took five lives and sparked a barrage of criticism against Public Works and...

Costa Rican minister resigns over accident

SAN JOSE, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Costa Rica's Public Works and Transportation Minister Karla Gonzalez resigned on Monday after being criticized for failing to assume responsibility for last week's accident in which five people were killed. A bus fell into...

Costa Rican student excelling in new country

By Zack Harold CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It's not the slight Spanish accent that sets Valerie Chavez apart from her classmates. It's that, just a year ago, the Richwood Elementary fifth-grader spoke no English at all. Valerie came to the United States from...

The quiet storm season may rumble back to life

By Kate Spinner After a brief brush with fall, warm, moist weather is expected to return to Florida next week, coinciding with heightened chances for tropical storm activity in the Caribbean. A cold front this weekend is forecast to dip across...

We should not pollute

Submitted by: Rachael M We should not pollute the planet we live in. The planet Earth is the only planet we have got that contains all our needs to live. So if we all stop polluting, then the planet would...

Getting Lucky

Submitted by: Becky Nelson We got very luckily with this shot of Arenal Volcano, near La Fortuna, Costa Rica.  The day was perfectly clear and we happened to be visiting a restaurant close to the mountainside. Not only was the...

Publishers Work to Transform Learning in Latin America

FRANKFURT-Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has secured multiple adoptionsof its groundbreaking customized education solutions throughout Latin America.From Ecuador and Chile to Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico, the global educationleader's localized Spanish-language reading and mathematics programs have becomea prime...
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Costa Rican Crew First to Film Predatory Behavior of Newly Discovered Cat in Bolivia

SAN JOSÉ / LA PAZ — A Costa Rica-based documentary team from Botanica Films has made history by becoming...