NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Samanta Urena Arauz, an agribusiness management graduate, could have launched a city career but chose instead to join a women-run coffee cooperative in her ...

Things were looking bleak for Vicenta González, the 73-year-old owner of a cacao plantation in northern Costa Rica, near the border with Nicaragua. Several years ago, the waters of a nearby river ...

Martha Pierce bought a one-way ticket to Costa Rica two weeks ago. Now, she's living by the beach and running her coaching business. Pierce said she was nervous to take the plunge but has already ...

The 13th edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival marks the first iteration with Patricia Velásquez Guzmán at the helm, but the filmmaker is a veteran when it comes to the San José-based ...

It was a match made in paradise. A Colorado woman says her high school teacher set her up with the teacher’s brother-in-law ahead of her vacation to Costa Rica. Shortly before Ellie Gervais, 25, was ...

Point Loma Nazarene University women’s basketball coach Charity Elliott isn’t sure whether the team’s recent tour of Costa Rica will translate to wins on the court during the season, but she knows it ...