tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142643472011-11-13T20:24:18.274-06:00Costa Rica News by Tiquicia's Homepage official blogUri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.comBlogger10021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-28458082574367820262010-03-26T15:43:00.001-06:002010-04-02T03:47:18.349-06:00

In this undated photo courtesy of Decca Records, Costa Rica's singer Debi Nova poses for a photo. Nova's debut album 'Luna Nueva,' produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, will be released on May 18 by Decca Records. (AP Photo/Decca Records, Jeff Lipsky)

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Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias attends a ceremony during a visit to Bolivar Square in Bogota March 23, 2010. Arias is on a two-day official visit to Colombia. (Photo:REUTERS/John Vizcaino)

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Bershawn Jackson from the US, Britain's Richard Buck, Costa Rica's Nery Brenes and Austria's Clemens Zeller, from left, compete during their Men's 400m heat at the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Friday, March 12, 2010 in Doha, Qatar. Brenes qualified to the final and finished in 4th place. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Midfielder Ricardo Garcia of Puntarenas FC of Costa Rica battles Los Angeles Galaxy defenseman Alex Cazumba for the ball in the first half during an international friendly soccer match, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Fullerton, Calif. The Galaxy won the game 1-0. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

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Metallica's James Hetfield (right) and bassist Robert Trujillo perform at Saprissa stadium in San Jose, Costa Rica on March 7, 2010.

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A Rawlings employee sews baseballs for use at the 2010 Major League Baseball season at a factory in Turrialba, Costa Rica March 3, 2010. The average baseball is only used for a few pitches in the Major Leagues, but for the Costa Ricans who make them each ball is the result of hours of painstaking stitching by hand. Picture taken March 3, 2010. (Photo: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Costa Rica's President-elect Laura Chinchilla waves after a meeting of Trade Ministers of America in San Jose March 4, 2010. (Photo:REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)

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San Jose (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived early Thursday in Costa Rica to meet the country's leaders as well as ministers from Latin America to discuss economic and democracy issues.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

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A coffee producer weighs coffee beans at a plantation in San Marcos de Tarrazu 90 kilometers (56 milles) south of San Jose, February 18, 2010. Costa Rica's coffee farmers are in a push to replace many of their aging high-quality coffee trees in a strategy that could lower output in the short term but pay off down the road. (Photo:Reuters)

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San Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rican police seized around a ton of cocaine and arrested two suspected Mexican traffickers on Friday in the latest sign Mexican gangs are stepping up their use of the country as a storage point.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.

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Yesterday Time magazine published an article highlighting Costa Rica's election of Laura Chinchilla as its first female president and the generational and gender changes that this represents in the Costa Rican political arena.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

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Costa Rica's President-elect Laura Chinchilla greets her supporters inside the Basilica of Los Angeles in Cartago for a service of thanks February 8,2010. Chinchilla, a protege of Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias, won a landslide election victory in Costa Rica on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman president. (Photo:Reuters)

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(CNN) - Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory."I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica," Laura Chinchilla said Sunday to flag-waving supporters in the capital, San Jose. "My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith."Second-place candidate Otton Solis

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Jose Delgado Corrales, 109, holds his identity card as he arrives at a polling station during the presidential elections in San Jose February 7, 2010. According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Corrales is the oldest among Costa Rica's 2.8 million registered voters, electing a new president on Sunday.

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Presidential candidate Otto Guevara, of the opposition Libertarian Movement party, prepares to kick a penalty at the Desamparados soccer stadium on the outskirts of San Jose, during his last campaign trail stop, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Costa Rica will hold presidential, congressional and municipal elections on Sunday. (AP Photo)

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A supporter shouts slogan in favor of presidential candidate Otto Guevara (R) of opposition party Libertarian Movement at the Central Market in Cartago February 4, 2010. Costa Rica will hold a presidential election on February 7. (Photo:Reuters)

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Otton Solis, presidential candidate for the Citizen Action Party, rides a bicycle during a walk along the central avenue in San Jose February 2, 2010. Costa Rica will hold a presidential election on February 7. (Photo:Reuters)Note: I'm not a supporter of Solis, but I love this picture. Where else in the world will you see a presidential candidate riding a bike downtown without virtually any

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Laura Chinchilla, presidential candidate for the National Liberation Party, smiles at supporters during a rally marking the start of her election campaign in San Jose January 31, 2010. The banner reads "Costa Rica safe and prosper." Costa Rica will hold a presidential election on February 7. (Photo:Reuters)

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The Costa Rican government inaugurated the 77 kilometer highway from San Jose to the central Pacific town of Caldera on Wednesday afternoon, 34 years after planning for the project began. The new thoroughfare cuts the time of the old San José-Caldera trip in half – from approximately 90 minutes to roughly 45 minutes.

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Argentina's Martin Palermo, left, battles for the ball with Costa Rica's Cristian Gamboa during a friendly soccer match in San Juan, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Argentina won the game 3-2. (AP Photo)

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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Laura Chinchilla could secure a victory in the first round of Costa Rica’s upcoming presidential election. According to a poll by CID-Gallup. 44 percent of respondents would vote for Chinchilla of the governing National Liberation Party (PLN) in next month’s ballot, down one point since December.Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement (ML) is second with 27 per cent

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Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias (R) shakes hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, during a meeting at the Four Seasons hotel in the Gulf of Papagayo, in Guanacaste January 25, 2010. Costa Rica was the fourth and final stop Monday on the Emir's tour through Latin America. The visit – the first by an Arab head of state to this Central American country – is expected to bring

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*Costa Rican growers report lower sales to Starbucks*Producers suspect U.S. coffee giant trimming inventoriesSan Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has reduced its purchases of Costa Rican coffee this year, the head of the Central American nation's coffee association said on Monday.The company, which is known for paying top-dollar for high-quality coffee, may be buying less

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Laura Chinchilla, presidential candidate for the ruling National Liberation Party, gives a thumbs up to her supporters during a campaign rally in Alajuela, Costa Rica, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Costa Rica will hold presidential elections on February 7th. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

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Settles accusations of kickbacks to govt. officialsSan Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said on Thursday it would pay $10 million to settle a corruption case in Costa Rica.Alcatel-Lucent was accused of paying kickbacks to former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez and other government officials in return for a 2001 contract worth $149 million to supply

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A rescue team from Costa Rica leaves a site after signs of life were no longer found among the debris in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12.

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* Chinchilla support down 23 points since September* Guevara favors switching to U.S. dollarBy Leslie JosephsSan Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - An outsider candidate from a right-wing party is gaining ground against Laura Chinchilla, favored to be elected next month as Costa Rica's first woman president, according to a recent poll.Newcomer Otto Guevara from the fringe Libertarian Movement, has

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By Leslie JosephsSan Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica on Monday kicked off the process of opening its cell phone market to private companies, ending the state telecommunications company's more than four-decade monopoly.The telecommunications regulator, known as Sutel, said it will open up bids in April and hopes to complete the award of the new concessions in the second half of the year."

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Jose Miguel Insulza, right, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) speaks with a reporter as Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias looks on, in San Jose, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. Insulza and Arias discussed the political situation in Honduras and the emergency in Haiti. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

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San Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica's high-quality coffee crops were spared from damage this week when a long-dormant volcano erupted for the first time in more than 140 years, spewing ash and forcing some evacuations.A handful of coffee plantations, including one of the country's leading growers Cafe Aquiares, are near the slopes of the Turrialba volcano in central Costa Rica. But most

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San Jose (AFP) – Costa Rica on Wednesday raised an alert level to cover a wider area around the Turrialba volcano, a day after it erupted."The alert level is rising from green to yellow," Vanessa Rosales, the head of the National Emergency Commission, told a news conference in the capital San Jose, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the volcano.Winds were sweeping some ash toward the capital,

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By Alfonso QuesadaLa NacionA young sea lion, of about 30 kilograms (66 pounds), was found on Monday by some tourists at Dominicalito beach in Osa, Guanancaste.Alvaro Corrales, a biologist, said that most likely the sea lion reached our country by mistake as it probably got lost at sea when a current took it off its path.Probably the sea lion's destination was Ecuador's Galapagos Island, a place

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Laura Chinchilla could become the next president of Costa Rica, according to a poll by CID-Gallup. Forty five per cent of respondents would vote for the former vice-president and member of the governing National Liberation Party (PLN) in the 2010 election, up two points since August.Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement (ML) is a distant second with 19 per cent, followed by former economy

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San Jose, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) - The Costa Rican Health Ministry announced here on Friday that A/H1N1 flu death toll in the country had reached 47, while the number of the flu infected patients rose to about 1,500.Costa Rican Health Minister Luisa Avila, in an interview with Xinhua, also said that the Costa Rican government has established a special commission to review the records of the dead who

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Milwaukee, Wis. (Business Wire) - Sensient Technologies Corporation has opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The new flavors center in Costa Rica will serve as the base of Central American and Caribbean operations. This facility includes laboratories for beverage and dairy applications and savory flavors staffed by product application teams, and a quality control

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Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean (C) and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond (rear, obscured) greet children as Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias (L) looks on during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential house in San Jose December 14, 2009. Jean is on a four-day official visit to Costa Rica. (Photo by: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)

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San Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Mexican drug gangs are increasingly using Costa Rica as a pick-up point for South American cocaine headed north and the problem is likely to get worse, President Oscar Arias said on Monday.Costa Rican police have seized close to 93 tonnes of cocaine between 2006 and 2009, nearly twice the amount the Central American country captured in the previous decade,

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The coffin containing the body of former Costa Rica's President Rodrigo Carazo sits at the Metropolitan Cathedral during a state funeral service in San Jose, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. Carazo, who served as president of Costa Rica from 1978 to 1982, died Wednesday at the age of 82, Costa Rica's Social Security Department said. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Former Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo Odio has died of complications from open-heart surgery.Costa Rica's Social Security Department said in a statement that the 82-year-old former leader died Wednesday following surgery for a coronary obstruction.The charismatic Carazo Odio governed Costa Rica from 1978 to 1982.He was viewed as a supporter of the Sandinista

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(NZPA) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of former Costa Rican vice-president Rebeca Grynspan to help former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark run the United Nations aid agency.Ms Grynspan has been named under-secretary-general and associate administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), which she has served since March 2006 as regional

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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Former vice-president Laura Chinchilla remains ahead of her rivals in Costa Rica’s presidential race, according to a poll by Unimer published in La Nacion. 43 per cent of respondents would support the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN) candidate in next year’s ballot.Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement (ML) is second with 30 per cent, followed by former

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by Uri RidelmanKonami Digital Entertainment announced that May 25th, 2010 is the official street date for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, on the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system in North America. In the game the players take control of the famed Naked Snake to battles mercenaries in the Costa Rica of 1974.Developed and directed by legendary Hideo Kojima - this latest PSP system

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People attend the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Children's Hospital in San Jose December 3, 2009. (Photo: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)

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Fireworks explode during illumination of Christmas lighting for the Children's Museum in San Jose December 1, 2009. More than five thousand lights illuminate the museum during the Christmas season. (Photo: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)

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By Marcus Moraes, JTAThe presidents of Costa Rica and Israel, both Nobel Peace Prize winners, celebrated together the anniversary of the partition of Palestine.President Oscar Arias was hosted by President Shimon Peres at a Nov. 29 luncheon in Jerusalem to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the fateful United Nations resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine. Peres described his Central

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By Netanel Shlomovich / Israel NewsThe recipe for peace between Israel and the Palestinians includes negotiations, honesty, immediate talks on the core issues, and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state – this is the vision presented by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in a special interview with Ynet.Arias, who is currently visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority, boasts

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Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias rekindles the Eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. Arias is on an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias touches the stone inside the grotto where tradition holds Jesus was born, inside the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. Arias is on an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo/Abed Al-Hashlamoun, Pool)

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Ankara, Turkey (Xinhua News) - Turkish and Costa Rican leaders said Wednesday the two countries intend to sign a free trade agreement to boost bilateral economic relations and also enhance political ties, Turkish media reported.Turkish President Abdullah Gul told a joint press conference with his Costa Rican counterpart Oscar Arias that Turkey wants to sign a free trade agreement soon with Costa

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Marc Guillemot, left, and Charles Caudrelier-Benac skippers of the Safran celebrate with champagne as they arrive off Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Guillemot and Caudrelier-Benac won the 2009 Transat Jacques Vabre finishing first out of the Imoca class competing in the 4730-mile sailing race from Le Havre, France to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

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A general view showing the construction of the Costa Rican national stadium in San Jose November 24, 2009. The stadium costing $83 million dollars is donated by the Chinese government after establishing diplomatic relations with Costa Rica in June 2007, according to an official from the Ministry of the Presidency. The stadium will have a total capacity for 35,000 spectators. (Photo: REUTERS/Juan

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Franck-Yves Escoffier, right, and Erwan Leroux skippers of the Crepes Whaou! celebrate as they arrive off Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Escoffier and Leroux finished the 2009 Transat Jacques Vabre in first place among the Multi50 boats competing in the 4730-mile sailing race from Le Havre, France to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

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By Adam WilliamsTico Times StaffThe Monthly Economic Activity Index (IMAE) for September showed signs that the Costa Rican economy has begun to recover. Though the economy contracted 0.1 percent, the miniscule decrease in activity is a significant improvement from the past year's monthly average decrease of 3.6 percent.The improved outlook was based on a better showing by the manufacturing sector

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Uruguay's Sebastian Abreu celebrates after scoring against Costa Rica during a 2010 World Cup qualifying playoff second leg soccer match in Montevideo, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. At left is Costa Rica's Roy Miller. The game at the Centenario stadium ended 1-1 but Uruguay advanced due to an aggregate score of 2-1. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

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Argentina's Facundo Minici, right, battles for the ball with the Costa Rica's Agustin Dallera during their Beach Soccer World Cup match in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Costa Rica lost the match 6-0 and was eliminated from the competition. (AP Photo/Farhad Berahman)

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Uruguay's Diego Lugano celebrates after scoring against Costa Rica during their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match at the Ricardo Saprissa stadium in San Jose November 14, 2009. Uruguay won the game 1-0 and now head home for the second leg of the playoff. (Photo: REUTERS/Henry Romero)

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(UKPA) - The mother of a British man who vanished while on holiday in Costa Rica nearly four weeks ago fought back tears as she spoke of her desperate wait for news. Michael Dixon, 33, has not been seen since he left his hotel in the popular surfing resort of Tamarindo in Guanacaste on October 18.All his belongings were left in his room and searches by land, sea and air have so far uncovered no

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(Inside Costa Rica) - President, Oscar Arias, today placed his signature on the law that bans marriages by proxy that is used by foreigners to remain legal in Costa Rica.The law reforms article 30 of the Family Code, eliminating the possibility of foreigners marrying Costa Rican nationals solely for the purpose of obtaining their residency, many not ever meeting their spouse, known them from a

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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Former vice-president Laura Chinchilla is heavily favoured to become the next president of Costa Rica, according to a poll by Demoscopía published in Al Día. 53 per cent of respondents would vote for the candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN) in next year’s election. Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement (ML) is a distant second with 15.7 per

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-49609743984794184062009-11-09T13:27:00.003-06:002009-12-07T21:29:30.641-06:00

Twenty boats set sail Sunday from Normandy, France for Costa Rica's Caribbean port of Limon for the ninth edition of the two-handed Transat Jacques Vabre race. (Photo: Marcel Mochet | AFP)

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The family of missing British journalist, Michael Dixon, continues to search for him following his disappearance in Costa Rica. Michael was reported missing over two weeks ago in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, where he was on holiday.Michael’s disappearance has been widely reported in the Costa Rican press and the international media – including the BBC, Sky News and La Nacion. A Facebook group set up to

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(Tico Times) - Costa Rica's Public Security Ministry suspended the issuance of new gun permits to foreigners Wednesday, according to national media reports.The move came on the heels of a shootout Tuesday between Jamaican assailants and Costa Rican police in the western San Jose suburb of Escazu, in which 30-year-old Judicial Investigation Police officer Randall Mauricio Lopez was shot dead, the

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Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Honduras News) - Porfirio Lobo, Honduran presidential candidate for the National Party (PN), canceled his trip to Costa Rica today, according to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. In Tegucigalpa, the spokesman for Lobo, Vladimir Vaca, said that several meetings, as well as the formal installation of the Verification Commission for the Accord are taking place in the Capital,

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Scooter Christensen of the Harlem Globetrotters provides dazzling theatrics in Sunday's show at the Palacio de los Deportes in Heredia, north of San Jose. This was the Globetrotters' first visit to Costa Rica since 2001, and the fifth time they've brought their show here. The Globetrotters are on the tail end of their “Spinning the Globe 2009” tour.

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San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - A traditional hammock-style wood-and-cable bridge has collapsed as a bus crossed it in rural Costa Rica, dropping a bus filled with 38 people into a riverbed. Five people are reported dead.Red Cross spokesman Freddy Roman says most of the survivors were injured in Thursday's accident.Bridges made of wooden planks supported by steel cables are used throughout the Costa

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Neenah Paper Inc. has entered into a partnership dedicated to the reforestation of 1,500 acres in Costa Rica, the paper company said Tuesday.Neenah Paper, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based manufacturer of premium and specialty papers with major operations in Wisconsin's Fox Valley, said it has joined with Friends of Osa and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin to help reforest a conservation

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By Chrissie LongTico Times StaffUnited States President Barack Obama announced Thursday his intent to nominate an environmental consultant to head the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica.The embassy has been without an ambassador since June, when Peter Cianchette, a Maine businessman and former Republican gubernatorial candidate, left the post to return to his home state.Obama's chosen replacement, Anne

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Diego Madrigal, of Costa Rica, celebrates at the final whistle during the FIFA 2010 U20 World Cup Round of 16 match between Egypt and Costa Rica at the Cairo International stadium on October 6, 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. Costa Rica eliminated the host team with a stunning 2-0 victory. (Photo by Shaun Botterill / Getty Images)

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(AFP) - Brussels - The brother of a British journalist missing in Costa Rica for more than two weeks said on Thursday he will stay "as long as it takes" in the Central American country to find him.Michael Dixon, 33, was last spotted leaving the Villas Macondo hotel in the popular surfers' resort of Playa Tamarindo on the morning of October 19, having travelled there on his own.His brother, David,

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San Jose - (AFP) Ex-president Rafael Angel Calderon has dropped out of Costa Rica's presidential race after a judge sentenced him to five years in prison for corruption in the first such trial of an ex-head of state here.Calderon, 60, leader of the opposition Social Christian Unity Party who was president from 1990-1994, maintains he is innocent, and had planned to stand for president again in

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-39261601614332237982009-10-03T13:02:00.000-06:002009-10-12T21:07:12.115-06:00

Diego Estrada of Costa Rica celebrates his goal against Czech Republic during their FIFA U-20 World Cup group E soccer match in Alexandria October 3, 2009. Costa Rica lost 2-3, but still qualified to the round of 16 due to a better goal difference than the United States. Costa Rica will now face hosts Egypt for a place in the quarterfinals. (Photo: Reuters/Marko Djurica)

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(Havana Times) - The Costa Rican government named journalist and diplomat Jose Maria Penabad as its ambassador to Cuba, informed the minister of the presidency, Rodrigo Arias. The official had acted as the Costa Rican consul to Cuba since 2003. Until earlier this year, Costa Rica, El Salvador and the United States were the only countries on the American continent without diplomatic relations

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By Adam WilliamsTico Times StaffFlights coming into Juan Santamaria International Airport in Alajuela will no longer be left in the dark. Public works and aviation officials unveiled Tuesday evening the airport's long-awaited approach lights, a project that required an investment of more $2.6 million and seven months of work.The new lighting towers span 900 meters and are located west of the

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-31958502377528993732009-09-30T14:14:00.001-06:002009-10-12T20:24:02.965-06:00

Diego Madrigal of Costa Rica celebrates a goal against Australia during their FIFA U-20 World Cup Group E soccer match in Port Said September 30, 2009. Costa Rica won 3-0 and kept its hopes of advancing to the round of 16 alive. (Photo: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

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President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias speaks while attending the Americas Conference being held at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables Fla, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Arias gave a luncheon address on the Honduras crisis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan)

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-14945876185384022402009-09-27T13:42:00.001-06:002009-10-12T18:45:28.488-06:00

Giuliano of Brazil (R) is challenged by David Guzman of Costa Rica during their FIFA U-20 World Cup group E soccer match in Port Said City September 27, 2009. Brazil won the match 5 - 0. (Photo: Reuters/ Suhaib Salem)

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Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica, addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Arias criticized the arms race that is taking place in Latin America as he pointed out that countries of the region have spent as much as $60,000 million to buy weapons in recent years. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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NEW YORK - (AP) Molson Coors Brewing Co. said Thursday that it is teaming with distributor Agencias Feduro (Costa Rica) to bring Coors Light to Costa Rica.The brewer said the partnership is part of its international expansion efforts, as Costa Rica is the second largest beer market in Central America together with Panama.Molson Coors said Coors Light will be available at Costa Rican supermarkets,

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San Jose - (Ceske Noviny) Costa Rican authorities have detained Karel Ponocny, a former Czech Finance Ministry official who was sentenced for fraudulent dealing with the Peruvian debt in 2006 in the Czech Republic, but escaped from the country before the verdict was delivered, Costa Rican media has said.Ponocny was detained on the basis of an Interpol warrant of arrest in his flat at the San Jose

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-62031313419941224462009-09-22T17:59:00.000-06:002009-10-12T18:13:55.732-06:00

(Herald Tribune) - A 22-year-old Costa Rican motocross racer was murdered on a highway in Guatemala a few hours after he won the first stage of the National Motocross Championship and his two companions were wounded, police said Sunday.Oscar Diaz’s vehicle was attacked for unknown reasons, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said.The two men accompanying him, Lewis Boniel, a 20-year-old Costa

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-61761643486014699012009-09-19T13:45:00.001-06:002009-12-07T21:42:51.020-06:00

By BJ Lutz(NBC Chicago) - Within the last day or two, a Costa Rican man has told authorities there that he's twice seen a dirty, bearded David Gimelfarb.Gimelfarb is the Chicago doctoral student who went missing in the Costa Rican jungle almost a month and a half ago.The man lives outside the Rincon de Vieja National Park, Gimelfarb's friend Christine Shaw told NBC Chicago, and says that on both

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-44248044677588174852009-09-18T12:16:00.001-06:002009-10-10T19:25:49.151-06:00

San Jose - (Xinhua) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the vaccine against A/H1N1 influenza in Costa Rica, local press said on Thursday According to Novartis lab, where the vaccine was proved, the preliminary approval was based on the result of the clinic studies and the other four kinds of vaccines, which had also been tried. The vaccine was reported to have some

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-77720628191798185812009-09-17T13:05:00.000-06:002009-10-10T19:26:06.558-06:00

San Jose (Xinhua) - Costa Rica requested 1.8 million vaccines against the A/H1N1 flu virus to prevent infections among its people, official sources said on Wednesday.According to the health authorities, these vaccines will be offered to some most vulnerable group of people, like patients who have risk factors like obesity, diabetes and smokers, as well as the health staff.Those who have high

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-90410327120852309882009-09-17T10:37:00.001-06:002009-10-11T02:42:51.028-06:00

(Reuters) - Brazilian Rene Simoes has been appointed as the new national coach of Costa Rica, a Costa Rican Soccer Federation spokesman confirmed.Simoes formerly managed the Jamaican National Team. Simoes will take over next week from Rodrigo Kenton, who was fired on Monday after the team failed to score a single goal in their last three World Cup qualifiers.Simoes, 56, is best known for leading

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-37466566306747864952009-09-14T11:29:00.000-06:002009-10-11T02:35:30.052-06:00

San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - Costa Rica fired coach Rodrigo Kenton on Tuesday following three straight losses in World Cup qualifying.Several possible successors surfaced, including Leo Beenhakker, Jose Pekerman and Cruz Azul coach Enrique Meza.Costa Rica, which once led the North and Central American and Caribbean region, is fourth with 12 points following losses to Honduras, Mexico and El

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-15215437386831352452009-09-13T11:54:00.003-06:002009-10-11T02:07:29.252-06:00

By Charles ScanlonBBC NewsOfficials in Costa Rica have said that a boat with 54 African migrants on board has been intercepted off the country's Caribbean coast.A security ministry spokesman said three men on the boat had been charged with trafficking offences.Officials said the boat was in a poor condition and that those on board had not eaten anything for several days.They believe the 54

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-76665600590490161692009-09-10T11:24:00.001-06:002009-12-07T21:44:11.832-06:00

San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) — After thoroughly searching the inside of a volcanic crater, Red Cross rescuers are ending their hunt for a Chicago-area man who disappeared in a national park in Costa Rica.Hopes had been lifted Monday when possible human remains were spotted in a crater, but officials said Thursday that what they thought was a body ended up being red foam.Friends and family of David

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-76517479952647784542009-09-09T10:35:00.001-06:002009-10-11T01:51:36.455-06:00

By Sean O'HareTico Times StaffThe implementation of a controversial traffic law designed to eradicate bad motoring habits and reduce the accident death toll has been delayed until March 2010.Offending motorists were liable to be fined and, in some cases imprisoned, as of Sept. 23 had the law not been postponed following a vote Monday at the Legislative Assembly.Forty-six out of 57 legislators

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-77433531450599102792009-09-07T10:11:00.000-06:002009-10-11T01:22:10.757-06:00

(Tico Times) - Start purring, Broadway lovers: “Cats,” the iconic musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is coming to Costa Rica in December.Twenty-one of the original “Cats” cast will perform in the Costa Rican debut of the beloved musical, bringing with them 60 costumes, 25,000 prop items and a 38-member crew, the daily La Nacion reported. The visit is part of a Central and South American tour that

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-15033642942692357382009-09-05T11:46:00.000-06:002009-10-11T01:05:14.292-06:00

(Inside Costa Rica) - Costa Rica's Comptroller's Office (Costa Rica's legal watchdog) on Thursday cleared a billion-dollar contract the government signed with China to jointly build an oil refinery after it was held up in legal wrangling for months.The Comptroller's Office reversed its own earlier ruling in March, when it said an agreement signed in 2008 was invalid. The contract allows Costa

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-74570578455819990122009-09-02T12:29:00.003-06:002009-10-11T01:06:44.281-06:00

New oceanfront building features country's first all-glass designPuntarenas, Costa Rica, (Business Wire) - The real estate development firm Caspi International Inc. is building a new 14-story oceanfront condominium tower in Costa Rica that is expected to be completed by mid 2010 and will be located in the Pacific Coast city of Puntarenas.The $120 million Genesis Puntarenas, as it will be known,

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-46818017688588128412009-09-01T12:36:00.001-06:002009-09-04T17:30:18.172-06:00

(Inside Costa Rica) - One of the world’s leading drug firms says it has managed to produce the vaccine for AH1N1 virus weeks ahead of schedule. Novartis says trials, that includes 784 Costa Ricans, are expected to prove positive and will start producing the vaccine by the autumn.Once the vaccine is available, Costa Rica is expected to receive some 400.000 doses by the end of November, according

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-83490630311609918412009-08-31T14:33:00.002-06:002009-12-07T21:44:37.799-06:00

Steve Miller ReportingWBBM Newsradio 780Chicago (WBBM) - As the search for a Chicago man missing in Costa Rica nears the three-week mark, the family is preparing to hire a private investigator.This is the day 28-year-old David Gimelfarb was to resume classes at Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago.His friend Christine Shaw says David's parents are about to take a new step in their

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-45569739790891286412009-08-30T12:57:00.002-06:002009-12-07T21:46:19.338-06:00

Steve Miller ReportingChicago (WBBM) - The search for a missing doctoral student from Chicago is marking a sad milestone today in Costa Rica: The Red Cross is ending its rescue efforts, at least temporarily.On Tuesday, it will be three weeks since the disappearance of 28-year-old David Gimelfarb, a Chicago doctoral student who hasn't been seen since he left for a hike in a national park in Costa

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-15193414231098735382009-08-27T10:42:00.001-06:002009-09-02T20:27:46.737-06:00

San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - Costa Rican football officials are reissuing tickets for next month's critical World Cup qualifying match against Mexico, fearing the market is flooded with counterfeit tickets.The Sept. 5 match is crucial to determining which team reaches next year's World Cup in South Africa. Costa Rica leads CONCACAF qualifying with 12 points, but the United States and Honduras are

Uri R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00947709548555523306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14264347.post-70031996207713633282009-08-26T12:07:00.000-06:002009-08-31T20:17:08.827-06:00

(Inside Costa Rica) - A week ago 784 Costa Ricans aged from three to sixty-four years of age began AH1N1 vaccine trials that is also being done in the United States and Mexico in the search for a vaccine against the AH1N1 flu virus.The Costa Rican results of a possible vaccine against the virus are expected within a month.The trials in Costa Rica are being conducted by the Swiss pharmaceutical,

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San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - The Red Cross says a search team of 30 people is still hunting for a U.S. student who disappeared two weeks ago while hiking in a mountainous park in Costa Rica.Red Cross official Carlos Gutierrez says the searchers have been combing the Rincon de la Vieja national park looking for 28-year-old David Gimelfarb, a doctoral student in psychology in Chicago.Gutierrez said

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Miss Universe contestants Jessica Umana, Miss Costa Rica 2009; Michelle Rouillard, Miss Colombia 2009, and Nicosia Lawson, Miss Cayman Islands 2009, pose for the photographer ahead of the Miss Universe 2009 pageant at Atlantis on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. (Photo: Reuters)

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By Sarah N. LynchDOW JONES NewswiresWashington -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it has sanctioned Jose Cayetano Melo Perilla for assisting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, with narcotics trafficking.Treasury said Melo Perilla, a Colombian national who resides in Costa Rica, is a drug trafficker and financial contact for the FARC's 27th front.The

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Mexico's Cruz Azul midfielder Adrian Cortes (R) battles for the ball with Costa Rica's Deportivo Saprissa defender Yader Balladares during their CONCACAF Champions Cup soccer match at the Azul stadium in Mexico City August 19, 2009. Cruz Azul won the match 2-0.(REUTERS/Henry Romero)

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