Wow! This is the only word to describe what just happened in Golfito.
Over the weekend there was an Equadorian boat stopped in the Parque National Corcovado near Golfito by the Servicio National de Guardacostas (Costa Rica coast guards). They confiscated 320 kilos of cocaine. The drugs were taken to the Judicial building in Golfito.
Yesterday (Thursday) [...]
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Obtain your Costa Rica Permanent Resident Investor Status through our Government approved reforestation project.
SPECIFIC BENEFITS USING THIS PROGRAM TO OBTAIN LEGAL STATUS
If the applicant chooses to obtain their Permanent Resident Investor status through this type of project they receive the following benefits:
Application can be made directly to the Immigration department here in Costa Rica [...]
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To follow up on my last post, this post actually is related to the last.
I understand that “Garage in Costa Rica” is a rather strange subject but it is something that you need to think about if you are moving to Costa Rica.
In the US and other countries you CANNOT leave your bicycles in the [...]
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This is the time of year that many individuals and families start looking toward their move to Costa Rica. Whether for a job transfer, coming down to experience a different way of life or just to start something new. There are many reasons to move to Costa Rica but don’t forget your dog when you [...]
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Costa Rica is not an island as many think that it is. It is located in Central America, Costa Rica has coastlines on the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The tropical coastal plains rise to mountains, active volcanoes, and a temperate central plateau where most people live (San José, the capital, is here). The only [...]
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The day after the earthquake El Diario put 2 very graphic photographs on the front page of their newspaper. These pictures were very disturbing to say the least. The first picture was workers pulling from the mud two children and their mother buried under tons of dirt and mud.
This is not the first time that [...]
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Unfortunately Costa Rica is not without con men even in the face of tragedy. The national emergency commission is warning unsuspecting people that con men are soliciting donations in the name of the earthquake victims.
The commission urges that all donations be sent to the bank accounts listed below as receiving funds for quake victims.
There is [...]
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Officials at the MOPT state that they are going to reject driver license applicants whose medical report does not include the drivers blood type and a don’t stipulate they want to be an organ donor or not.
The medical report (dictamen) is completed by a private doctor. Many of these doctors (dozens of them within 2 [...]
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The aftermath of the record setting 6.2 earthquake has left as many as 225 homes unsafe to live in. Many of these homes were flattened and the ones that did not slide down the side of a mountain may before too long. The current count of dead is 18 but there are as many as [...]
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I have received many emails over the years from readers of my blogs who are interested in moving to Costa Rica from the US or other ‘developed’ countries’.
Here are some tips that I picked up from years of actual cross-cultural communications as well as first-hand experience.
1. Be informed (Know) before you go. [...]
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