San Jose - Uruguay defeated Costa Rica 1-0 on Saturday night, in the first playoff match for a World Cup 2010 berth. Diego Lugano scored the lone goal of the match at 22 minutes. ...
San Jose - One person died and two were reported missing after a magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck Costa Rica, the local Red Cross said. It said a young woman was buried by a landslide in the southern community of San Vito de Coto Brus on Friday. Two o...
San Jose - Costa Rican police seized over 2 tonnes of cocaine in San Francisco de Dos Rios, in the southern suburbs of the capital, San Jose. The drugs were found late Wednesday in a storage facility belonging to an international drug gang that was s...
San Jose - Uruguay were set to play Costa Rica Saturday in the first leg of the World Cup play-offs, the last chance for both teams to make it to South Africa 2010. The artificial turf of the Ricardo Saprissa stadium - the largest in Costa Rica, with...
This is november Update to Africa world cup fixtures , take a look(source fifa.com): 14/11/09 TBA Republic of Ireland - France 14/11/09 TBA Portugal - Bosnia-Herzegovina 14/11/09 TBA Greece - Ukraine 14/11/09 TBA Russia - Slovenia 14/11/09 15:00 Maputo Mozambique - Tunisia 14/11/09 15:30 Fes Morocco - Cameroon 14/11/09 15:30 Lome Togo - Gabon 14/11/09 15:30 Kigali Rwanda - Zambia 14/11/09 16:00 Nairobi...
Here’s how my day began yesterday: ran into these guys in the National Park in San Jose filming an anti-Oscar Arias skit. (That’d be Oscar Arias as in the Nobel Laureate and President of Costa Rica.) Later the same day, I ran into the real Oscar Arias at an event with the mayor of Beijing [...]
Last night at the Spanish Cultural center in San Jose, Costa Rica, three journalists with extensive experience with citizen media from Spain, Costa Rica and Cuba: Rosa Jiménez Cano, Cristian Cambronero and Lazaro Rodriguez gave a talk on the transformation of journalism as it adapts to the new forms of media. Streaming was provided [...]
BOGOTA, SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, LIMA, Peru & SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Synergy Group and Grupo Taca Holdings Ltd announced today that they have reached an agreement leading to the creation of Latin America’s leading airline group. As a result of this agreement, each shareholder will
BOGOTA, SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, LIMA, Peru & SAN JOSE, Costa Rica--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synergy Group and Grupo Taca Holdings Ltd announced today that they have reached an agreement leading to the creation of Latin America’s leading airline group. As a result of this agreement, each shareholder will contribute its respective controlling ownership participations in the operations of Aerovías...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- A Costa Rican court has found former President Rafael Calderon guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to five years in prison.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - The front-runners in Honduras' presidential race backed a negotiated solution to the country's political crisis on Wednesday, but stopped short of calling for the return of ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
San Jose, Costa Rica - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said he would meet Wednesday with the principal Honduran presidential candidates in a last-ditch effort to mediate a continental diplomatic impasse. Arias warned Monday that Honduras could beco...
San Jose - Rodrigo Kenton was sacked as Costa Rica's national football coach, the Costa Rican Football Federation (Fedefutbol) said Monday. At a press conference in San Jose, Fedefutbol President Eduardo Li said the institution had asked Kenton to st...
San Jose - Officials and human rights groups have noted a new people-smuggling trend as 54 African and Nepalese migrants were detained in Costa Rica over the weekend from a rusty boat after a rugged ocean crossing. Immigration authorities detained s...