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...
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...
By Samuel Logan and John P Sullivan for ISN Security Watch
Colombia and Costa Rica reaffirmed counternarcotics cooperation on 16 September, underscoring the reality of a new threat to security facing Costa Rica, a country known as the Switzerland of...
This beautiful photo of a Jaco sunset was submitted by Anna Marie Warres. It was taken last weekend during her family's stay in the area. Thanks Anna Marie for the great photo and congratulations on being selected as this...
By JENNIFER KAY (AP)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias on Tuesday commended the interim president of Honduras for saying he will reverse an emergency decree suspending civil liberties in his country.
But he warned that the results...
Submitted by: Ryan Kelly
In light of the recent credit crunch it is my firmly held belief that the governments of the world should revoke the licences of commercial banks and in effect raze them to the ground. This theory...
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) -
“A democracy without values...easily becomes a dictatorship and ends up betraying its own people.”
This is what is read in the Message signed by Cardinal Hugo Barrantes Urena, Archbishop of San Jose (Costa Rica) and President...
The United States' Merida Initiative will be providing an additional $1 million for the improvement of money laundering prevention methods and improvement of the Costa Rican police force, bolstering the previous allocation of $4.3 million Costa Rica received earlier...
This photo of Mal Pais was submitted by John Hamlin during his recent tour of Pacific coast beaches.
The rocky break from this surfing paradise is not for the faint of heart, but for the experienced surfer, this is one...
Submitted by: Jeffery Cutler
There have been a lot on people complaining lately about the Costa Rican Environment Tribunal’s decision to halt construction of the San Jose-Caldera highway pending more detailed environmental impact studies. While I understand their desire to...
