COSTA RICA: SAN JOSÉ, Sep 18 (IPS) - A bill on the press and freedom of expression that has been kicking around in the Costa Rican Congress for the past eight years, which deals with questions like source confidentiality, access to public ...
POLITICS-CENTRAL AMERICA: SAN JOSÉ, Sep 1 (IPS) - The late June coup d'état in Honduras was a body blow to political integration in Central America. The institutions of the regional integration process have been incapable of reacting to ...
TOURISM-COSTA RICA: SAN JOS, Aug 16 (Tierramיrica) - Some 3,000 people make their living from rural community-based tourism in Costa Rica, according to the association of tour operators who connect visitors to the delights of rural ...
COSTA RICA: SAN JOSÉ, May 27 (IPS) - The Diquís dam, the largest hydroelectric project in Central America, is worrying indigenous communities because Costa Ricas state power company has excluded them from the decision-making process, in ...
COSTA RICA: SAN JOSÉ, May 16 (IPS) - Government institutions and civil society organisations are holding talks, workshops and other activities aimed at raising awareness and overcoming intolerance, in preparation for the National Day ...
Persons for Sale SAN JOSÉ, May 11 (IPS) - Global trafficking of persons continues apace and Costa Rica is not exempt from sexual exploitation and forced labour. Data compiled by the United Nations indicate that women and girls are most ...
MAY DAY-COSTA RICA: SAN JOSÉ, Apr 30 (IPS) - Domestic employees in Costa Rica have run out of patience. After 17 years of fighting, they are threatening to report the state to international bodies if their slave-like working hours are not ...
COSTA RICA: SAN JOSÉ, Apr 15 (IPS) - With traditional tourism hit hard by the global recession, Costa Rica is seeking to draw foreign visitors by offering low-cost, high-quality health care especially targeting people from the United ...
ENERGY: SAN JOSE, Mar 5 (Tierramérica) - The government of Costa Rica hopes to increase its power generation by tapping into volcanic hot spots, and to that end it has introduced a controversial bill in Congress that would allow drilling ...
ENVIRONMENT: SAN JOSÉ, Dec 17 (Tierramérica) - Costa Rica is hoping for a big jump in its Clean Trips (Viajes Limpios) programme, which allows air passengers to offset the climate-changing gas emissions from their airplane flights by ...
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