El Salvador received 473,000 international visitors in April, a 36 percent increase from the same month in 2025, according to figures from the country’s Ministry of Tourism. The April total made it the strongest month so far in 2026. Visitor arrivals rose from 413,049 in January, to 402,581 in February, and 452,736 in March before …
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Over the years of offering wildlife monitoring services using camera traps, I’ve had many projects come and go. Some last a few months, others last several years. No matter the length of the project, each one comes in two distinct phases, the first phase, the beginning, and the second phase, the rest. The beginning of …
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Hundreds of Guatemalans celebrated Saturday with music, firecrackers and parody performances marking the end of eight years in office for Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who has been sanctioned by more than 40 countries that accuse her of corruption and anti-democratic conduct. Porras ended her term Saturday after a tenure marked by efforts to block the …
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Today, May 18, 2026, Costa Rica’s most enduring English-language voice quietly marks a milestone that few news organizations anywhere in the world ever reach: its 70th birthday. The Tico Times was never supposed to become an institution. It started as a homework assignment. And yet, seven decades later, it remains the go-to source of English-language …
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Costa Rican cinema has another rare place on the Cannes stage this week, as director Valentina Maurel competes in Un Certain Regard at the 79th Cannes Film Festival with her new feature Siempre soy tu animal materno, known in English as Forever Your Maternal Animal. The film’s selection puts Maurel in one of Cannes’ main …
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A Southwest Airlines flight that departed Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría International Airport made an emergency landing Sunday at Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport in Liberia after the crew reported a midair problem shortly after takeoff. The aircraft, identified as Southwest flight WN1203, was traveling from San José to Houston when it diverted to Guanacaste. Flight-tracking …
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A railway that would stitch together two of Central America’s most dynamic economies is quietly moving from vision to blueprint. Panama and Costa Rica are jointly advancing plans for a cross-border rail corridor that, if completed, would transform how people and goods move through the region and potentially set a template for integration all the …
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TikTok has passed Instagram to become Costa Rica’s second most used social network, marking a major shift in how people in the country consume digital content and how businesses may need to reach them. The latest report from the University of Costa Rica’s Center for Research in Communication (CICOM) found that TikTok is now used …
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Costa Rica saw a second airport emergency on Saturday after authorities responded to the death of a passenger aboard an Iberia flight arriving from Madrid, the same day another aircraft activated emergency protocols at Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia. A 59-year-old Costa Rican woman died aboard an Iberia flight from Madrid on Saturday afternoon, …
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Barra del Colorado has long been one of Costa Rica’s great fishing destinations, especially for anglers chasing Atlantic tarpon along the country’s remote northern Caribbean coast. It’s near the Nicaraguan border, where the Río Colorado meets the Caribbean Sea, the area is known for jungle-lined waterways, remote fishing lodges, and one of the most famous …
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