By the A.M. Costa Rica staff and wire service reports
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Consensus of Costa Rica seeks to eliminate extreme poverty in Latin America by 2015, Bruno Stagno Ugarte told the general assembly of the Organization of American States Monday.
Stagno, the Costa Rican foreign minister, expanded on what had been outlined in […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
If you are a fan of the Costa Rican national team, you will not have a problem Friday morning finding a place to cheer on the players.
Every bar, every restaurant and even in front of the giant screen at Avenida Central and Calle Central will be friendly territory.
But suppose you […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Phone company employees were creating fake accounts so that foreigners could run up high toll charges and then stick unsuspecting citizens with the bill, agents said Tuesday.
Agents detained an employee of the San Pedro agency of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad Tuesday and conducted six raids including one at the […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Public employee union members are going on strike today, a day earlier than announced last week. Workers from the state monopolies are expected to gather at Parque Central for a march around noon. Children will be excused from many schools at 10 a.m. as teachers join the protest.
The strike originally […]
Last month, Poás Volcano, which towers over the Central Valley, north of San José, produced streams of sulfur shooting 160 meters into the air from one of its fumaroles, according to a statement from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) at Universidad Nacional, in Heredia, north of San José.
Though sulfur streams are […]
