Costa Rica

The wisdom of acquiring comprehensive travel insurance with coverage for medical costs associated with Covid-19 is reshaping the travel landscape, insurers say.

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Unvaccinated people are eager to travel again. But increasingly, the rules make that harder.

A powerful magnitude-6.8 earthquake has shaken Panama and Costa Rica.

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A man fled Italy after a magistrate ordered his arrest for alleged drug trafficking in 2014. The man fled to the Dominican Republic and managed to avoid police for a few years until cooking videos on YouTube blew his cover.

International Living ranks the world’s best places to retire in 2021 for as little as $2,000 a month.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a flavorful casado dish from Irazú Costa Rican Restaurant.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and worries mount over the upcoming presidential election, many Americans have been thinking about moving abroad.

Twenty-five people have died and dozens more have been hospitalized after drinking tainted liquor in Costa Rica, NBC News reported, citing health officials. The announcement Monday came nearly a month after the country’s health ministry first put the alcohol-related death toll at 19 and attributed the deaths to methanol poisoning. Liquor producers sometimes use the potentially toxic liquid to increase...

The disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews shortly after singing “Jingle Bells” with classmates at a 1984 Christmas concert stunned this rural town in northern Colorado. Her case attracted the attention of the White House, and came at a time when the faces of missing children across the nation were being placed on milk cartons. On Thursday, police announced that human...

Tom Brady’s cliff jump with his 6-year-old daughter on a family vacation is being flagged for unnecessary roughness by some and seen as an adventurous daddy-daughter moment by others. The New England Patriots star quarterback posted a video on Instagram Saturday of him leaping off a cliff in Costa Rica while holding the hand of his daughter, Vivian, who appears...

Costa Rica issued a nationwide warning after at least 19 deaths were attributed to methanol poisoning from contaminated alcohol consumption.

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When an armed conflict erupted in his village in Congo, Blaise Matshieba Nduluyele fled from the carnage. Hundreds of people, including some of his relatives, were slaughtered. Death remained close as his family undertook a grueling journey starting in South America and extending through eight countries to safety in the United States. They slept along roads or in the jungle....

Ecuador’s highest court authorized same-sex marriage Wednesday in a landmark case seeking to expand LGBT rights in the small South American nation. The decision by the Constitutional Court came after a lengthy legal battle waged by several couples and gay rights advocates. With the 5-to-4 ruling, Ecuador joins a handful of Latin American nations — Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia...

New Jersey, it seems, is the last place where people want to spend their golden years. Almost 67% of all New Jersey moves were outbound last year, according to a survey from United Van Lines.

While the Rose Parade had many high notes, it also had a bit of a scare when a float caught on fire New Year’s Day.

A cruise ship has rescued two Costa Rican fishermen who had been stranded at sea for about three weeks.