Costa Rica News - The indigenous territory Salitre makes up more than 30,000 acres of land in Costa Rica’s Puntarenas province. The country’s indigenous law from 1977 protects their land rights but local non-indigenous say that previous land purchases included some of the land where the indigenous currently live. The conflict has been growing the past…
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Costa Rica Picture of the Day - Each day the Costa Rican Times will be including a picture from around Costa Rica to see the natural beauty and amazing things that we get to see each day in the land of the Pura Vida. A few weeks ago a drunk Nicaraguan was eaten by crocodiles near…
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Costa Rica - Since February, DayStar condominium owners, friends and family of Patrick Hundley and the entire Jaco community have been watching as the court case against Hundley plays out. The arrest came from alleged charges of defrauding multiple foreign investors out of $7 million. Investors assert that they signed legal agreements then started out making…
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Costa Rica News - Biologist Juan Sánchez drives the leader of two off-road vehicles along a dirt road in southeastern Costa Rica. Officials and experts are on their way to inspect a homestead whose owner has destroyed part of a mangrove swamp. Sánchez is a technical officer for the Environmental Administrative Tribunal (TAA), the environmental court…
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Costa Rica Health News - According to the Costa Rican Health Ministry, the Limon Province is where the most active transmission of the dengue virus is taking place this year. Matina is the town where the greatest number of dengue cases have been found: 309 so far this year. Authorities reported 3,648 cases of dengue by…
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