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Friday, March 26, 2010
Debbi Nova to release album May 18

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Oscar Arias visits Colombia
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Nery Brenes finishes fourth

Monday, March 08, 2010
Metallica concert in Costa Rica

Labels:
concerts,
entertainment,
metallica
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Sewing MLB balls

Friday, March 05, 2010
Laura Chinchilla meets Hillary Clinton

Labels:
Hillary Clinton,
Laura Chinchilla
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Clinton in Costa Rica for regional ministers' meet

She will meet with president-elect Laura Chinchilla, set to become Costa Rica's first female head of state, in talks expected to focus on economic and development issues.
The top US diplomat will also meet President Oscar Arias, who hands over to Chinchilla on May 8.
Clinton flew in from Brazil where she faced strong resistance to the US-led push for sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program.
In San Jose she sits down with female entrepreneurs and attends a Pathways to Prosperity roundtable, a Bush-era initiative involving 14 regional countries whose foreign ministers meet to promote economic development, democracy and women's rights.
The group includes six Central American countries as well as Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, the United States and Uruguay.
This is the fifth stop in Clinton's six-country Latin America tour, which she completes Friday in Guatemala, where she attends another meeting with regional leaders.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Weighing coffee in San Marcos

Friday, February 12, 2010
Costa Rica finds ton of cocaine, arrests Mexicans

Police found 2,139 pounds (969 kg) of cocaine stashed at a rural house near the Pacific coast northwest of San Jose, and arrested two Mexican nationals at the scene. They are believed to be members of Mexico's Juarez cartel, the public security ministry said.
President-elect Laura Chinchilla, a former security minister who won a landslide election victory on Sunday, has said combating Mexican drug gangs operating in Costa Rica will be a priority when she takes power in May.
A three-year army crackdown on drug gangs in Mexico has encouraged some traffickers to push south into Central America, setting up bases in countries like Guatemala as they seek new routes to smuggle South American cocaine to the United States.
Costa Rican authorities have seized 93 tons of cocaine between 2006 and 2009 - nearly twice the amount the country captured in the preceding decade.
Costa Rica is known for being an oasis of stability, high living standards and low crime in a region scarred by Cold War-era civil wars and plagued by violent street gangs.
But it also sits halfway between the cocaine-producing Andes and Mexico, whose smuggling gangs earn some $40 billion a year smuggling the drug north using planes, boats and trucks.
Police raided the house in Costa Rica early on Friday following a tip-off from neighbors, the ministry said.
The two suspects are from the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, one of the world's most violent spots. One had a press credential from a Mexican newspaper, the ministry said.
(Reporting by Leslie Josephs; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Labels:
arrests,
drug trafficking,
police
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: Recovering the Tico mojo is Chinchilla's prime mandate

Time points out that "at a moment when Costa Rica's stature as the Switzerland of Central America is in decline..." Chinchilla's prime mandate is to help our country recover its "Tico mojo" .
For Time, the fact that Chinchilla is "the first Tica President is definitely important — but taking Costa Rica back to the future will matter even more."
Read the whole article here.
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