Costa Rica Expat: Casey Halloran Age: 32 Place of Birth: Coudersport, PA Current Home: San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City, Panama Lives with: Solo Has lived in Costa Rica: 10 years

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Costa Rica Surfing -- Naranjo Wins 1st Place at ALAS Event The current National Surf champion of Costa Rica, Diego Naranjo, won the second date of the Latin American Surf Association (ALAS) Circuit in Punta Rocas, Peru. The 6-star Copa Movistar is Naranjo’s first 1st place win after 7 years of participating in the ALAS Latin [...]

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The Festival Imperial 2008 will return to Costa Rica this April 19th and 20th after its 2007 hiatus, featuring music by 80s band Duran Duran and 90s alternative rock group Incubus. This year’s Festival is themed “La musica nos une” or “Music unites us”, and will take place at the Autodromo La Guacima in Alajuela. Costa [...]

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Costa Rica Soccer -- Can Coach Medford take team to World Cup 2010? Costa Rica’s most popular sport is without a doubt soccer, or fútbol in Spanish, and with the world cup qualifiers looming around the corner for the “Tico’s” the passionate fans and the ever scrutinizing media are asking one question, “Will Costa Rica make [...]

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Yesterday 16 regional supermarket chains, two of them Costa Rican, signed an agreement in El Salvador to unite forces and be more competitive against the retail giant Wal-Mart. The regional organization will be called Super Markets of Central America and Panama (SUCAP), and will have its home base in El Salvador. Costa Rica News -- New [...]

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At $16 a person, The Real Coffee Tour is not the principle bread winner for the Vargas family, which has run the Doka Estate coffee plantation through generations and almost 80 years. But for owner Don Rodrigo Vargas, it is one of his greatest sources of delight. Rows of drying coffee lay outside Costa Rica's Oldest [...]

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The first ever Chinese Film Festival, which will take place this weekend from Feb. 8 to Feb. 10, will feature three full-length Chinese films, each with three separate viewing times. All will be shown at the Cinépolis Terramall movie theater in Tres Rios. Costa Rica Film Festival -- Chinese Film Festival this Weekend

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The headlines may be amusing, “Costa Rica Hotel Allegro Poopagayo,” [Costa Rica Holiday Blog] or “Another Pacific Poop Problem” [Tico Times], but the issue at hand is quite serious and sends a bad message to hundreds of tourists in the area. Costa Rica News -- Allegro Papagayo Closed for Lack of Waste Control Facilities

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The Isla del Coco, Costa Rica's mysterious Pacific island territory more than 300 miles from the main land, is currently ranked 3rd out of some 300 candidates vying to become one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, a competition sponsored by UNESCO. Costa Rica News -- Isla del Coco is Costa Rica's claim to fame

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Age: 47 Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa Current Home: Liberia, Costa Rica Lives with: Family. Has lived in Costa Rica: 4 years

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