IPBES issues dire report on climate change: Effects accelerating, impacts measured
By Although climate change has not been the main reason for the loss of biodiversity and the deterioration of ecosystems in the last 50 years, it is exacerbating the impacts on nature, and the outlook is not encouraging. “Climate change is not the most important precursor of biodiversity loss if one compares it with the changes […]
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Pic of the Day: Costa Rica in the spotlight as it hosts international meeting on Venezuela
Diplomats from across Latin America and Europe arrived in Costa Rica on Monday for the third meeting of the International Contact Group on Venezuela. Costa Rica, serving as hosts, inaugurated the event at Casa Amarilla with a short declaration from President Carlos Alvarado. Click here to read more from Monday night’s inauguration. Click Here: Sports […]
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Weekend soccer roundup: Semifinals begin, Ticos traded in MLS
Reigning Costa Rican soccer champion Club Sport Herediano defeated San Carlos, 2-0, in the first leg of the Clausura semifinals on Saturday. Jimmy Marín and José Guillermo Ortiz scored for Herediano as it secured the home win. San Carlos manager Luis Marin lamented a no-call from the referee that would have resulted in a penalty […]
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‘Feria de las Flores’ brings music, food and art to Heredia
The took place over the past week in Heredia at the Campo Ferial de Perla. On display was Heredia’s finest. Stalls representing the area’s best foods lined the inside of the event center, but the true focus of the Feria were demonstrations from typical folklore dance groups. They were made up of people of all […]
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Costa Rican residents sentenced in United States for phone scam
Two Costa Rican residents were sentenced to 20 and 25 years in prison, respectively, for participating in a telemarketing operation that defrauded victims in the United States, the Department of Justice announced in a press release. Andrew Smith, 46, and Christopher Lee Griffin, 45, had been convicted in 2018 for each having committed one count […]
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Life in limbo: The uncertainty of Venezuelans without a valid passport in the U.S.
Nastacha Hernandez’s father died without her being able to say goodbye. Like many Venezuelans in the United States, Hernandez could not renew her passport in the middle of a crisis intensified by the rupture of relations between the two countries. “I feel frustrated, with anger and pain,” said Hernandez, who had not seen her father […]
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Venezuela: three months of crisis
Venezuelan opposition chief Juan Guaido declared himself acting president in January 2019, vowing to remove President Nicolas Maduro and quickly getting support from the United States and around 50 other countries. On Tuesday he claimed to have also secured the backing of Venezuelan soldiers, while the country’s leftist government said an attempted coup was under […]
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US-Venezuela relations in deep freeze
Hitting Venezuela with oil sanctions to undermine the Maduro regime, Washington’s latest gambit could turn 20 years of frosty relations still icier. US links with Caracas nosedived when Nicolas Maduro’s Bolivarian Socialist predecessor Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, and did not improve during his 14 years in power. They slid even further on […]
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Mysterious rock that fell in Costa Rica is a meteorite ‘of great scientific interest,’ UCR says
An object that caused surprise when it disturbed the skies above Costa Rica with a rumble and a luminous wake turned out to be a meteorite, the University of Costa Rica (UCR) has confirmed. The meteorite created a beam of light, known as a bolide, before impacting on April 23 in the northern town of […]
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What happened to Carla Stefaniak? Few new details in case
Carla Stefaniak was visiting Costa Rica from the United States last November when she went missing. In a case that quickly garnered international attention, authorities soon found Stefaniak’s body near the San Antonio of Escazú property she had rented through Airbnb. An autopsy revealed she had died of stab wounds to the neck and extremities, […]
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