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50th Annual Independence Day Celebration in Costa Rica
The United States expatriate community was fortunate to enjoy the annual Independence Day picnic at the Cervercería de Costa Rica picnic grounds on Sunday. This year was the 50th aniversity of the event hosted by the American Colony Committee for U.S. expats in Costa Rica and their guests. The number in attendance was stated as [...]
Laura Chinchilla, Sex and the Internet
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla gave her first address via Internet this weekend on Youtube, and the switch from broadcast television to Internet social networking represents a change for how the government communicates with the people. During the three minute speech she implies that problems were inherited from the last administration and also deals with [...]
Legal Residency Lacks Path to Citizenship
Would you sign a letter renouncing your United States citizenship even if it had no tangible consequences? If you have relocated or retired in Costa Rica and have legal residency, then is the question you face answer after seven years. Costa Rican law allows you to apply for full citizenship provided that you can pass [...]
Calling Costa Rica
A recently as a decade ago Costa Rica was an expensive place from which to place an international phone, and while the Internet changed that for many people there still was a large group who couldn’t make an inexpensive phone call to the United States from the comfort of their home. This is because broadband [...]
