Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA-  Following the announcement Friday night by Costa Rica Foreign Minister, Manuel Gonzalez, to withdraw from the Central American Integration System (SICA, in Spanish), today, Monday, a technical group is expected examine the situation of thousands of Cuban migrants who are stranded in Costa Rica since mid-November. In his announcement...

  QCOSTARICA - Despite the growing number of shopping centres and supermarkets, the pulperias, Costa Rica's corner stores, refuse to disappear. In fact, four in ten Ticos (Costa Ricans) say the buy at pulperias, this according to the 2015 consumer habits survey by the Asociación GS Uno. "The pulperias are not dead...

QCOSTARICA TRAVEL  via NatGeo - When pigs fly? It might happen more than you think. Over two million U.S. pets and other animals travel by air each year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. One of them, a meowing cat on a recent flight, led Saturday’s Weird Animal Question...