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It’s that time of year. The afternoons are overcast and rainy, darkness falls before 6 pm, and everywhere you go, you hear the sounds of sneezing, wheezing, coughing, noses being blown and loogies being hocked up. No matter how healthy you may consider yourself, oncethe Costa Rican gripe – especially […]

Get ready for a magical night of music, delicious food, and drinks while supporting a great cause! The upcoming Enchanted Forest costume party on November 9th promises an unforgettable night of fun and philanthropy. With art auctions, costume contests, and more, it will be a charming night benefiting communities and […]

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves will participate in the Summit of the Partnership for Economic Prosperity in the Americas (APEP) hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday. The summit aims to strengthen regional economic bonds as a counterbalance to China’s growing clout. In addition to the U.S. and Costa […]

The landscape of crime in Costa Rica is shifting as increasingly mobile hitmen relocate between regions to evade rival gangs and police. This troubling phenomenon is especially evident in the Caribbean province of Limón. With 190 murders this year, Limón leads the country in homicides, followed by 186 in San […]

In an effort to put an end to the devastation of trees in the vicinity of the Playa Tamarindo estuary in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, The Clean Wave Foundation, along with the SalveMonos Association and the Tamarindo Integral Development Association, have issued an urgent call to action. This destructive activity has […]

Today we meet the collared forest-falcon. It’s a pretty bird of prey that likes to eat iguanas and pose for my camera traps. The collared forest-falcon (Micrastur semitorquatus) is known as the halcón de monte collarejo in Spanish, which is a pretty direct translation. Many birds and mammals have de […]

In a recent analysis highlighting the rising insecurity across Latin American countries due to the infiltration of the narcotics trade, The Economist, the British weekly magazine, asserted that “Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story.” The international publication also outlined the public discontent over what it termed […]

Tropical storm Pilar scraped past Central America Tuesday, causing heavy rains along the Pacific coast but growing less likely to make landfall.  With maximum sustained winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour, Pilar was slowly moving towards El Salvador, but its core “is expected to remain offshore,” the US […]

In case you missed it, last week’s biggest story came from the vaults of Banco Nacional. In one of those, ‘Haven’t we heard this before?’ events, it was reported that some 3,200,000,000 colons have gone missing from the vault of the Banco Nacional headquarters in San Jose. That is 160,000 […]

An exponential increase in dengue fever cases has prompted a health alert across Costa Rica in 2023. According to data from the Health Ministry, the country has recorded 9,182 more cases this year compared to the total for entire 2022. The accumulated statistics reveal an alarming 16,667 dengue infections reported […]