And while the country's economy has grown to depend on the tourism industry, locals say the surge in outside influence has resulted in key elements of the Blue Zone's customs fading away. Costa Rica's ...

Spain, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File) SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Former Costa Rica President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says the U.S. government’s unexplained ...

Excerpted with Permission from Firefly Books Ltd. Coffee has been grown in Costa Rica since ... independence from Spain was declared in 1821, the municipal government gave away free coffee seeds ...

Canada and Costa Rica whose jobs were being eliminated were notified early Wednesday, the unit’s chief said in an email to staff. Germany finished third in the standings, behind Spain on goal ...