Deep in northern Costa Rica, near the Nicaraguan border, a slow-motion environmental catastrophe is unfolding with the speed and impunity of a gold rush. The Crucitas region in San Carlos, Alajuela province, once a candidate for regulated mining under a Canadian concession, has become what one journalist who hiked ten hours to reach the site …
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Air Canada is adding a new nonstop route between Vancouver and Guanacaste for the 2026 to 2027 winter season, giving Costa Rica’s Pacific coast another direct link to the Canadian market just as competition for North American travelers stays intense. The new service between Vancouver International Airport and Liberia International Airport is scheduled to begin …
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Tomas Martin Etcheverry arrived at the Monte-Carlo Country Club on Thursday carrying form that most players on the clay circuit could only envy. He left it having pushed the world number one to the edge of a major upset before falling just short. The Argentine’s 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 defeat to defending champion Carlos Alcaraz told …
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A recent feature by Maria Faith Saligumba for Discover Wildlife Science has renewed attention on a part of Costa Rica’s history that many people rarely think about: the giant animals that once lived here long before modern forests, highways and national parks. Discover Wildlife Science published Saligumba’s article, The Mysterious Megafauna of Costa Rica’s Prehistoric …
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Cuba accused the United States on Thursday of extorting countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to cancel medical cooperation agreements with Havana in order to strangle the island’s economy. The dispatch of medical brigades abroad remains the main source of foreign currency for Cuba’s communist government, bringing in 7 billion dollars in 2025 according …
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Costa Rica has formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, placing the country alongside a growing group of governments in Europe and Latin America that have taken the same step in recent months. The measure also applies to Hezbollah, Hamas and Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthi militia. The announcement …
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Costa Rica is heading into a hotter and drier stretch in the coming months, with the National Meteorological Institute warning (IMN) that El Niño conditions are increasingly likely to take shape during the second half of 2026. The outlook points to less rainfall across the country, higher average temperatures, and a tougher dry-season feel even …
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Costa Rica environmental officials are battling a wildfire that has now spread into the Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve in Guanacaste after first burning on a nearby private farm, according to information released by the Ministry of Environment and Energy and SINAC. An earlier report said the fire was initially outside the protected area and threatening …
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Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca kept his strong week going at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday, beating Italy’s Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of an ATP Masters 1000 event for the first time. The match lasted 75 minutes. The 19-year-old delivered one of the most impressive wins of his young career …
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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández said Wednesday that a United States appeals court overturned the 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking that had been imposed on him in 2024, after which he thanked President Donald Trump. Hernández, who governed Honduras from 2014 to 2022, was pardoned by Trump last November amid heavy pressure aimed …
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