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Tag: costa rica

Opinion

How tourism development tears apart the myth of a paradise

Apr 12, 2024
A fierce real estate development is silently dispossessing the inhabitants of the most desired beaches ...
Region, Culture, Sports

“Nicas regalados”: The old insult that’s still heard in soccer stadiums

Mar 06, 2023
The expression goes back to an idea about where the nation of Costa Rica really...
Video

Housing grants, a solution for employment and economic reactivation

Dec 03, 2020
The Housing Mortgage Bank (Banhvi) estimates that each social housing property provides 3.4 direct...
COVID-19, Special Stories, Human Rights

The unpunished femicide of Darys Mora, the deepest wound of a cross border town

Jul 28, 2020
San Vicente, a forgotten community on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border, found Darys Mora strangled...
COVID-19, Human Rights

Silvio and Teresa: Nicaraguans who heal and teach during the pandemic

Jul 23, 2020
In classrooms, hospitals and orchards, there are Nicaraguans fighting alongside us to get out of ...
Special Stories, Human Rights

VIDEO: Here’s what we can do to cut back xenophobia towards Nicaraguans in Costa Rica

Jul 14, 2020
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, rejection of Nicaraguan migrants has exacerbated. Two experts explain why and ...
COVID-19, Special Stories, Human Rights

Pandemic at the Border: When Working and Living is Outlawed

Jul 07, 2020
COVID-19 has drawn a hard and fast line across a previously porous border, and...
Video

The clandestine trails between Guanacaste and Nicaragua

May 29, 2020
Many illegal border crossings between Costa Rica and Nicaragua start out in the backyards of...
Video

The dead hours: carriers on the Nicaraguan border

May 29, 2020
There are hundreds of carriers stranded on the Nicaraguan border. We spoke with them to...
Region

Two Groups in Guanacaste Redraw the Rainforest of the Sea That Is About to Disappear

Apr 08, 2020
Juan Jose Alvarado still remembers what the coral reefs looked like in Playas del Coco...
COVID-19, Economy

Mass layoffs?: This is how the big hotels of Guanacaste respond to the “zero season” caused by Covid-19

Apr 02, 2020
Hoteliers in Guanacaste have appropriated the term “zero season” to describe the current...
Region

Free Trade Zones Generate Less Than 1% of Jobs in Guanacaste

Feb 17, 2020
Companies set up within the zone in the province produce 1,000 jobs, the lowest ...
Nosara, Crime

Nosara Theft in 2019 Was Highest in a Decade

Feb 11, 2020
Around 6 a.m. on December 28, Paula Zumbado left a resort in Playa Guiones...
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