Is buying land in Costa Rica really a rock-solid investment, as some real estate agents will tell you? Is it smart to put your hard-earned money into buying land in Costa Rica? Yes, it is, if you know ...

TALAMANCA, Costa Rica— The Center for Biological Diversity has donated more than 40 acres of land in Costa Rica to a group of Indigenous women for conservation and sustainable cocoa production. The ...

A young girl takes in a police roadblock in Chacarita, Costa Rica, where violence has skyrocketed in recent years. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Karol Vega remembers a time when her neighbors ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Indigenous groups and Costa Rica's president on Tuesday mourned the killing of yet another indigenous activist,amid continuing land disputes in the Central American country ...

New York, New York - Representatives of Costa Rica's Afrotribal communities traveled to the United Nations in New York last week to fight back against what they describe as a systematic effort to ...

A reader named Rafa asked last week in a comment on an article why agents do not qualify real estate buyers. Is qualifying a Costa Rica property buyer really possible? Is Rafa correct in saying that ...

Why does a wealthy, powerful nation struggle so badly while a small, much poorer one succeeds? One of the world’s greatest environmental heroes doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Though he has done ...