The third annual ArteViva festival in Puerto Viejo, scheduled for this weekend, was canceled unexpectedly after the area’s municipality revoked the festival’s permits, according...
Finance Minister Guillermo Zúñiga has announced he will run for president in 2010, joining a crowded field of aspirants from the National Liberation Party...
The Mixed Institute for Social Aid (IMAS) announced ¢100 million (about $182,000) in aid for Hurricane Hanna flood victims. On Sept. 4, heavy rains...
Costa Rica’s state insurance monopoly sought last week to calm clients worried about the fate of insurance giant American International Group (AIG), which reinsures...
New ambassadors from the Netherlands and Malta this week presented their credentials in Costa Rica – a formality that marks the beginning of their...
GOLFITO, Puntarenas – Bulldozers and backhoes, accompanied by government officials and a squad of National Police dressed in riot gear, arrived at the remote...
In the face of too much demand, Coopeguanacaste, the electrical cooperative in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, on Thursday began a new wave of...
Christian Sapsizian, a French citizen and former executive of French telecom giant Alcatel, was sentenced this week in the United States to 30 months...
