costa rica

Costa Rica declared five buildings as historical and architectural heritage, at the end of 2020. These buildings are in four cantons. The intention behind the declaration is to keep them…

Exactly 100 years ago, Costa Rica was also fighting a pandemic. Meetings were prohibited and the school year suspended. At that time, it was the Spanish flu causing all the…

Police had to intervene to bring order back to Santa Cruz. While the celebrations of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas typically draw 200,000 people, this year they’ve been canceled due to…

Gordon Ramsay is in Costa Rica and has visited at least one restaurant. It was Soda Mirna in Puerto Viejo. He was wearing a cap and almost unrecognizable but when…

The United States will require, as of January 26, a negative covid-19 test for travelers arriving to the country by plane. The test is to be carried out three days…

The Marcial Fallas Clinic serves more patients than many regional and peripheral hospitals do. This Centro de Atención Integral en Salud (CAIS) had a waiting list of 23,300 people in…

A doctor suspected of murdering his wife after she asked for a divorce is behind bars but his lawyers are asking the judge to release him. He’s been in preventive…

Exportation from Costa Rica, and most countries, took a huge hit in 2020 due to the pandemic. Procomer is thinking ahead to 2021 and making plans to strengthen trade, especially…