September 25, 2009 CommonDreams.Org
	Costa Rica Creates Department of Peace -- On Monday, September 14, the Costa Rican legislature passed a law changing the name of the country's justice ministry to the Ministry of Justice and Peace, making the department the first of its kind in Latin America and only the third in the world.
August 31, 2009 CommonDreams.Org
	Carbon Controversies in Costa Rica -- Does the Model Central American Country live up to its big green reputation, particularly when it comes to climate control? An evaluation of the challenges in truly becoming "carbon neutral."
July 05, 2009 CommonDreams.Org
	Costa Rica is World's Greenest, Happiest Country -- Latin American nation tops the Happy Planet Index that ranks countries by ecological footprint and happiness of their citizens, a measure the New Economics Foundation says is a much better way of looking the success of countries than through standard measures of economic growth.
March 08, 2009 Tico Times
	Free Trade in Costa Rica – Is it working? -- For many, CAFTA is not delivering on its promises, and last month, Costa Rica university students and anti-CAFTA activists staged protests as they did in early 2007.
December 23, 2008 Reuters
	Bush clears way for Costa Rica to join CAFTA -- President George W. Bush cleared the way on Tuesday for Costa Rica to formally join a regional free trade agreement between the United States, the Dominican Republic and four other Central American countries.
October 27, 2008 Edgardo Vinicio Araya Sibaja
	Does Costa Rica deserve this "green devil"? -- Hundreds of trees and living creatures are being obliterated in Las Crucitas, the Northern Lands of Costa Rica. Local men and women are in shock to see their country's beautiful land being torn apart huge regions at a time. Spread the word of the tremendous degradation of Costa Rica's environment to help find a solution that will end this travesty.
September 14, 2007 Global Exchange
	Costa Rican Natives: Are They Being Considered In This Referendum Process? -- I’m not a native Costa Rican, so I am far from figuring out how our indigenous people should feel in face of this new violation against their inner nature. Let’s face it: forcing native Costa Ricans to decide YES or NO in a referendum process they don’t understand, in order to decide upon the fate of a law (CAFTA) nobody understands is nothing but a new violation against these people, whose world vision doesn’t even have room to see this vote as a human right. I wonder if indigenous people feel “equal” to the rest of Costa Rican citizens just because their vote also counts.
September 14, 2007 Global Exchange
	Costa Rican Natives: Are They Being Considered In This Referendum Process? -- I’m not a native Costa Rican, so I am far from figuring out how our indigenous people should feel in face of this new violation against their inner nature. Let’s face it: forcing native Costa Ricans to decide YES or NO in a referendum process they don’t understand, in order to decide upon the fate of a law (CAFTA) nobody understands is nothing but a new violation against these people, whose world vision doesn’t even have room to see this vote as a human right. I wonder if indigenous people feel “equal” to the rest of Costa Rican citizens just because their vote also counts.
July 25, 2007 Tico Times
	Anti-CAFTA Camp Protests Outside Tribunal -- Leaders of the movement against the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) spoke to about 200 people yesterday outside the Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE) in San José.
July 18, 2007 IRC Americas Program
	Guatemala and Costa Rica: In and Out of CAFTA -- It was a short, but eloquent, announcement: after nearly a year in CAFTA's orbit, the same traditional exports as always are growing, outside of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The message is overwhelming: the country "sacrificed" itself to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States for nothing. The CAFTA model, pushing the Central American economy toward the export of non-traditional goods to the United States, has been a pretext for imposing expensive foreign pharmaceuticals as opposed to cheap, national generic drugs, overwhelming the peasant farmer with subsidized imports, and granting extra-territorial jurisdiction to foreign companies.
June 25, 2007 Bloomberg
	Costa Rica Opposition Leader Calls for Renegotiation of Cafta -- The top opposition leader in Costa Rica said he wants to renegotiate a free-trade agreement with the U.S., citing as a precedent the U.S. revamping of a similar agreement with Peru.
May 17, 2007 Written by SOA Watch
	Costa Rica to Cease Police Training at the SOA/WHINSEC -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced Wednesday that Costa Rica will cease to send police to train at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
March 08, 2007 IRC Americas Program Citizen Action Focus
	Costa Rica: Why We Reject CAFTA -- On Feb. 26, tens of thousands of Costa Ricans took to the streets in a demonstration to block ratification of the free trade agreement and reject approval to implement legislation demanded by the United States. Costa Rica is the only country included in the Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Central America, and the Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) that has not yet ratified the agreement. A broad grassroots movement in the country is trying to make sure it stays that way.
October 25, 2006 Costa Rica Solidaria
	Costa Rica Says No to CAFTA! -- On October 23rd and 24th, a popular movement, owners of small companies, former Presidents of the Republic, businessmen and the major opposition political parties, public universities, environmental and labor unions, students, womens and all kinds of social organizations all over the country, demonstrated in a national journey and strike demanding the government the immediate removal of CAFTA from Congress.
October 18, 2006 Prensa Latina
	Costa Rica Questions US Trade Pact -- San José, Oct 18 -- Costa Rican unions and social organizations confirmed their participation in a national strike against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, currently being evaluated in Congress.
August 29, 2006 Inter Press News Service (IPS)
	Companies Eye Pull-Outs if CAFTA Flounders -- Weary of the snail's pace ratification process of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which continues to dominate Costa Rica's political and social agenda, some companies are weighing the idea of moving to other Central American countries should Congress reject the treaty.
June 18, 2005 Infocostarica
	Pacuare River Dam Rejected -- Costa Rica’s tour operators, foreign visitors and the community of Turrialba have much to rejoice about now that the proposed Pacuare hydroelectric project has been rejected. The proposed dam, which had been planned since 1996, would have produced 158 megawatts annually, according to officials from the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), which is managing the proposed project. The dam would have begun operations in 2010, approximately 70 kilometers east of San Jose.
June 04, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	CAFTA Stalled -- Thousands of workers and citizens gathered in San José May 18 to protest Costa Rica’s possible ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). During the demonstration, the National Farming Union (UPA), the Costa Rican Electricity Workers (ICE), the National Association of Public Servants and the Private Sector (ANEP) and the Teacher’s Association, among others, reiterated their intention to ensure CAFTA’s failure through continual demonstrations and a general strike.
May 08, 2005 Resource Center of the Americas
	Thousands Protest CAFTA -- For the second year in a row, thousands of workers and students marched on May 1 in San Jose, Costa Rica to demand that the government reject DR-CAFTA.
April 29, 2005 Tico Times
	President Seeks Advice on U.S. Trade Pact -- In an unexpected move that confounded business leaders and political observers this week, President Abel Pacheco unveiled a plan apparently designed to help him reach a decision on one of the most divisive issues facing his administration: the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA).
March 18, 2005 Third World Network
	Costa Rica: Wildlife in Danger -- San Jose, March 18 - The peninsula of Osa, a strip of land in the southeast of Costa Rica and home to some of the most unique flora and fauna in the country, is in danger due to illegal logging. For years, the territory has been the victim of a systematic attack by loggers and their power saws - the main enemy of ecosystems there, which is growing stronger.
March 15, 2005 BBC
	Costa Rica Ex-Leader Held at Home -- Former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez, who faces corruption charges, has been allowed to leave jail to be held under house arrest.
January 07, 2005 Tico Times
	President Pacheco Investigated -- Chief Prosecutor Francisco Dall'Anese gave President Abel Pacheco a Christmas Eve surprise this year: on Dec. 24, the Prosecutor's Office announced it has reopened its investigation of foreign donations to Pacheco's 2002 presidential campaign.
November 24, 2004 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
	Costa Rica Declares Emergency After Quake -- President Abel Pacheco declared a national emergency in Costa Rica on Tuesday, a move that frees up government funds for hundreds of families driven from their homes by a strong earthquake that rattled the country last weekend.
November 23, 2004 The Nacional Association of Public and Private Sector Employees
	TLC of Free Trade Agreement: an overwhelmingly unjust struggle. -- The Costa Rican people are calling for International Solidarity to resist the final Neo-liberal attack against our society. This message is addressed to our brothers and sisters in trade unions, to all social movements and to all progressive political organisations. The Government of the United States of America has injected, via the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the sum of $700,000, for the promotion of the Free Trade Agreement between Costa Rica and the USA
October 29, 2004 Tico Times
	Three Former Presidents Scrutinized -- Former Costa Rican President Rafael Ángel Calderón Jr. (1990-1994) is in prison. Former President Miguel Ángel Rodríguez is in house arrest (1998-2002). And former President José María Figueres (1994-1998) is now under the watchful eye of the Prosecutor's Office.
October 10, 2004 Resource Center of the Americas
	OAS Loses Its Head -- A week after being hit by corruption charges in the Costa Rican media, former Costa Rican president Miguel Angel Rodríguez (1998-2002) suddenly announced on October 8 that he was resigning from his position as secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS).
September 19, 2004 Resource Center of the Americas
	Costa Rica Leaves the Coalition in Iraq -- On September 9, the Costa Rican government asked for formal removal from the coalition that U.S. President George Bush has gathered for the war in Iraq.
September 17, 2004 Resource Center of the Americas
	Scandal Plagues Costa Rican Leader, Allies -- SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco has tapped several low-profile junior officials to fill the gaping holes in his Cabinet left when his entire economic team walked out amid political turmoil.
September 10, 2004 Tico Times
	Government Corruption Scandal Explodes -- Prosecutors are investigating former President Rafael Angel Calderón and several top government officials for allegedly having received large sums of money to arrange a multimillion-dollar government contract for a pharmaceutical company.