Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA TRAVEL  by Killian Foz, BA.com - Until recently, Las Tablillas amounted to a few buildings and a police checkpoint. But its quiet days are almost over, as it now marks the revamped crossing between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. As Killian Fox discovers, this has opened up new paths to...

Costa Rica has earthquakes, lots of them. Some are even felt. Few, however, are really to be of concern, like the powerful earthquake that struck Costa Rica's Pacific coast in October 2012, swaying buildings and sending people running into the streets in San José. There was no major damage or...

QCOSTARICA - Once again the Constitutional Court (Sala IV) has declined to decrease the maximum penalty imposed in Costa Rica, which is 50 years in prison. This is the third rejection in the last six years. Last Wednesday, by a vote of four to three, the judges of the Sala IV...