Costa Rica News

LA UNION, on the Costa Rica-Panama border The hills of Costa Rica are alive with the sounds of war drums: And Nicaragua had better take heed.

Liquid Rhythm owners Mariangel Mendoza Dollis and Derik Dollis, along with Cristina Gutierrez and Julie Banks Mims, performed a Contemporary dance at Noche Cubana.

April 22nd, 2014 Meat varieties that have not traditionally been part of Costa Rican cuisine are slowly but surely gaining in popularity, especially lamb, buffalo and rabbit.

Carlton Group of New York says it's hospitality division has been engaged to sell a rare, fully entitled, shovel ready, master planned development along the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica.

It was the first time an absolute monarch had traveled to the White House. 1945 - U.S. soldiers in Germany liberate 32,000 Nazi victims from a concentration camp in Dachau in World War II; in a Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun and designates Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.

Quito , April 22: Ecuador and Costa Rica signed an agreement to delineate maritime boundary between the two nations here Monday, capping over three decades of negotiations on the matter, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said.

The effects of the new legislation regarding drink and driving has constrained the categorys growth.

April 21st, 2014 Recent studies by the National Water Laboratory reveal that several of the country's beaches present a risk of illness to those who bathe in their waters due to fecal coliform levels exceeding the acceptable level of 240 coliforms per 100 ml of water.

Floribeth Mora was dying from an inoperable brain aneurysm when a photograph of Pope John Paul II in the newspaper reportedly spoke to her, curing her in a single day.

Bonhams will present nearly 200 lots of African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art on May 15 in New York.

This was originally titled, 'Everything is sweeta in Cahuita.' I could have kept that title.

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In a few hours, Pope Francis will celebrate an Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square and deliver his twice-yearly "Urbi et Orbi" blessing and message.

LA UNION, on the Costa Rica-Panama border The hills of Costa Rica are alive with the sounds of war drums: And Nicaragua had better take heed.

In this July 5, 2013 file photo, Floribeth Mora stands by her shrine to Pope John Paul II inside the entrance to her home in La Union de Cartago, Costa Rica.

A sudden lurch in a creeping landslide in the northwest Wyoming resort town of Jackson split a house in two and forced workers to abandon efforts to stabilize the hillside.

A sudden lurch in a creeping landslide in the northwest Wyoming resort town of Jackson split a house in two and forced workers to abandon efforts to stabilize the hillside.

Costa Rica is under threat. Despite recent claims that "no terrorist groups or drug cartels lurk in the nation's mountains and rain forests," the evidence is quite the contrary.

A few weeks before our departure, we confirmed our accommodations and rental car with Expedia.

Image Caption: Atelopus varius was previously widespread and common in Costa Rica.