Arias Says Castro Like Pinochet
Costa Rica's president, Oscar Arias, on Friday compared Cuba's leader Fidel Castro to the late Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet, an ideological foe, saying each was "savage, brutal and bloody" in his own way.

Plasma Made in Costa Rica
After five months of hard work at the plant created by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang near Liberia, plasma, the fourth state of matter, was produced.

Colombian Guerilla Leader Extradited
A Colombian rebel suspected of involvement in dozens of murders and running a drugs for arms operation has been extradited to Colombia from Costa Rica, a court spokeswoman in Costa Rica said on Friday.

5.000 Limón Residents Still Without Water
The blaze at the chemical plant in Moín, Limón, on December 12, is still affecting some 5.000 areas residents who are and will continue to be without drinking water for the next month.

Happy Hanukkah
The four thousand or more Jews in Costa Rica tonight end the celebration of Chanukah, the most important Jewish holiday of the year.

10 Million Illegal Euros
The Spanish magazine Interviu disclosed that 10 million euros –which supposedly belong to Juan Roca, a businessman from Marbella, Spain, whose activities are not too clear - entered Costa Rica disguised in boxes containing tin cans of olive oil, which were unloaded at the Caribbean Port of Limon.