Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniel Zueras SAN JOSE, May 2 (IPS) – The boom in construction projects on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica is threatening biodiversity and compromising the future of the country’s widely promoted ecological tourism, says a study by Costa Rican and U.S. scientists. The study, compiled over a two-year [...]
COSTA RICA: (In)human Trafficking
April 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniel Zueras SAN JOSÉ, Apr 15 (IPS) – The rescue in a Costa Rican port of 36 Asians working as slaves in appalling conditions on two fishing boats once again highlighted the need to fight people trafficking in this Central American country. Costa Rica is a transit point as [...]
COSTA RICA: Last-Ditch Leftwing Alliance to ‘Save’ the Country
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Daniel Zueras SAN JOSÉ, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Political forces on the left in Costa Rica have formed a partial last-minute alliance to support Ottón Solís, the presidential candidate for the centre-left Citizens’ Action Party (PAC), in a bid to counter the conservative lead that the polls [...]
