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Apparently, Rush Limbaugh has vowed to move to Costa Rica if the US healthcare reform gets passed by Congress. While Costa Rica may not want this type of publicity it does point out a fine feature of this country. The quality of health care in Costa Rica is the same as in the USA but at a fraction of the...Read More Here

The average baseball is only used for a few pitches in the U.S. Major Leagues, but for the Costa Ricans who make them each ball is the result of hours of painstaking stitching by hand.

Right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh must be confused. During a recent broadcast, he vowed to "go to Costa Rica" if President Obama is successful in passing his health reform legislation.

The bishops of Costa Rica released a statement expressing concern over a recent ruling by the country's Constitutional Court which stripped the Church its right to choose which religion teachers will be hired in Costa Rican schools.

NEAR SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 90 km E of Puntarenas, Costa Rica 110 km W of Limon, Costa Rica 155 km SSE of San Carlos, Nicaragua Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available Parameters NST= 10, Nph= 10, Dmin=3.3 km, Rmss=0 sec, Gp=169, M-type=regional moment magnitude , Version=6 Source Event ID us2010tmav This event has been reviewed by a ...

Friday, 5 March 2010, 6:24 pm Press Release: US State Department Remark With Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno Ugarte and Dominican Republic Deputy Foreign Minister Clara Quinones de Longo San Jose, Costa Rica March 4, 2010 MODERATOR: Good afternoon, we are going to begin our Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas.

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake rocked central Costa Rica late Friday, the country's seismic and volcano monitoring center confirmed.

It sounds like the slacker's version of a religious pilgrimage -- substituting a long, arduous trek to a holy site with an effortless stay-at-home digital version.

Costa Rican President-elect Laura Chinchilla and visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wave to the press, in San Jose, Costa Rica, on March 4, 2010.

Secretary Clinton in Costa Rica / participating in Pathways for Prosperity ministerial / meeting with Costa Rican President-elect Laura Chinchilla / dinner with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Pathways ministerial: promoting growth, democracy, open markets, etc Deputy Secretary Steinberg and NSC Senior Director for Asian Affairs Jeff Bader, now ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Costa Rica to press Latin American nations on democracy and development.

The Monteverde golden toad went extinct in 1989. Photo: Wikipedia . This probably won't be the last word on the demise of the Monteverde golden toad , but a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that normal El Nino conditions, not climate change, lead to the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus and caused the iconic Costa ...

In Costa Rica, the issue of same-sex civil unions is being addressed in a new proposal that would give rights to same-sex partners.

San Jose, Feb 28: Costa Rican authorities have seized about three tonnes of cocaine in a major drug haul in recent years, officials said Saturday.

Ten Costa Ricans have turned in more than 130,000 signatures of registered voters requesting a popular referendum on a bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly to legalize same-sex marriage.