Costa Rica News

Milanes Antes Up Bail Luis Milanes, accused of defrauding his investors of more than us$200 million dollars, yesterday complied with a court order on Friday to post six properties valued at us$12 million ...

Costa Rican coffee farmers are facing threats from climate change but the rising temperatures are also expanding high-altitude regions where the country's most prized beans are grown.

Digicel Group has set its sights on Costa Rica, a market that telecommunications watchers say is ripe for exploration by big players, following passage of new legislation that paves the way for competition in ...

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What was once home to monkey's, turtles and other rare wildlife, a beautiful stretch of coastline in northwest Costa Rica is now developing so fast that it is tarnishing the country's reputation as a ...

President Oscar Arias' executive order to green light a gold mine a few miles from the Nicaraguan border has upset the Nicaraguan government and united environmentalists in both nations.

Pungent brown sewage spews into the Pacific ocean. In the background, cranes put up hotels and beachfront apartments.

The best gift I've ever received as a father didn't come on Father's Day. It came when my daughter was 13 and we sat alone together atop the biggest pyramid the Mayans ever built, looking down on the trackless ...

Business Wire June 17, 2008 Tuesday 2:54 PM GMT 580 words Costa Rica's Riverside Developers Acquires Access to $100 Million in Residential Mortgage Financing from a Subsidiary of Deutsche Bank ESCAZU, Costa ...

Two men caught with $372,000 in cash near the Costa Rica-Panama border told police that they just wanted to buy some bananas.

Police said the two appeared to be nervous after their car was stopped over the weekend. Officials searched the vehicle and found the cash in a briefcase.

Police commander Freddy Hernandez said in a statement Monday that the men told officials they were banana brokers.

But police are holding them on possible money laundering charges.

Bananas cost about $1.65 a pound in Costa Rica.

An Orinda mortgage specialist who fled the Bay Area after being accused of engaging in child sex tourism offenses with a 12-year-old Costa Rican girl appeared in federal court in Miami today after being ...

There are many reasons why it makes sense to retire to Costa Rica. But the primary one is simple: My wife loves this place.

A high school teacher on a school trip drowned in Costa Rica while trying to rescue a student who got caught in a rip tide, the school's principal said.

Cuba proved to be no refuge for an American fugitive who was deported Friday to face federal charges in California of sexually abusing a Costa Rican girl and possessing child pornography.

Drope all the way to the other coast. Destination was to reach Puerto Viejo but it got to late and instead stayed in Limon.

U.S. marshals arrested a fugitive from Costa Rica in Hampton. The fugitive, Gerard Joseph Latulippe, was wanted in Costa Rica for multiple allegations of fraud.

Gerard Joseph Latulippe, 65, was residing at 989 Ocean Boulevard, Unit 21, when he was arrested on the international warrant charging him with bilking investors out of nearly $2.4 million.

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Ben Simms poses in May 2007 with some of the youngsters with whom he works in Ujarras de Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, as a Peace Corps volunteer.

In Costa Rica, with a crime rate of 40 percent, nearly half of the households are hit by any violent incident in some areas, vice president Laura Chinchilla admitted on Tuesday.