San José, Costa Rica - The president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Nancy Hernández, warned Monday that freedom ...

The Costa Rican government, led by President Rodrigo Chaves, has announced its intention to introduce a bill that would significantly increase prison sentences for those involved in abortions. The ...

United States dollars are often accepted in-country as well. #5 The Costa Rican government is a democratic republic ruled by ...

The following is an excerpt from The World Atlas of Coffee, 2nd Edition by James Hoffmann. Excerpted with Permission from Firefly Books Ltd. Coffee has been grown in Costa Rica since the early ...

As part of our work, UNHCR assists the Government of Costa Rica in their response to the influx of Nicaraguan asylum-seekers. The Field Office focuses on safeguarding the basic rights of refugees and ...

The Costa Rican government appealed for aid, and the U.S. rushed in an initial 4,000 tons of cattle feed, plus 500 respirators for street cleaners. Costa Rican businessmen raised an emergency fund ...

Those cars belong to the Costa Rican Embassy. Along with El Salvador, the government of Costa Rica for years has been alone in the world in officially recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital ...

A second key challenge is finance. The Costa Rican government has always been frank in saying that achieving neutrality depends on international financial support. Yet this finance has been slow ...

According to the organization that Quesada represents,“the Panamanian government did not act in good faith when it rejected the proposal of the Costa Rican government for both countries to adopt ...

The most common types of business entities in Costa Rica are Corporations, known in Spanish as “Sociedades Anónimas” (also referred to as “S.A.´s”), and Limited Liability Companies ...

If the value declared by the owner is higher than the value that the government already has as the registered ... The regular property tax for all properties in Costa Rica is 0.25% of the registered ...

Poverty has remained around 20-25% for nearly 20 years, and the government’s strong social safety net has eroded due to increased constraints on its expenditures. Costa Rica’s credit rating ...