Costa Rica News

Floribeth Mora Diaz does not care if people think she is crazy. She is convinced - and so is the Vatican - that she owes her life to a miracle cure because she prayed to the late Pope John Paul.

Costa Rica has established its coffee as being the most prestigious in the world, yet producers of coffee remain ignorant to the fair trade movement and impact it can have on their production.

In this April 1, 2014, file photo, ttudents gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba.

The Costa Rican government says it's still waiting for the Obama administration to explain why it launched the secret "Cuban Twitter" network from inside the Central American nation's borders despite warnings in 2009 that the plan could jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations.

A small town in southwest Wyoming has been evacuated after an explosion and fire at a natural gas pipeline hub.

April 23rd, 2014 A video obtained by Spanish-language digital newspaper, CRHoy.com in which Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, says that Intel's decision to close its manufacturing operations in the country came after the company "spent several years trying to work with the Costa Rican government" to reduce the cost of its Costa Rican operations, would ... (more)

TRES RIOS, Costa Rica -- On a warm spring day, Floribeth Mora was in her bed waiting to die from a seemingly inoperable brain aneurysm when her gaze fell upon a photograph of Pope John Paul II in a newspaper.

The morning traffic was heavy as our small Toyota Coaster bus wound its way slowly through the outskirts of San Jose.

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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