Porteadores Take To The Streets Today
The informal taxis or Porteadores will take to the streets today in a massive protest against the government's position to eliminate the "porteo" - the informal taxi service - from the Codigo de Comercio (Commerical code) and issue some 3.000 Portedaores taxi plates.

Racist Remarks At Soccer Games Not Sanctionable
Yelling out racist insults and being a total idiot at a football (soccer) game in Costa Rica will not be punished and neither will the offenders be ejected or banned from future games.

Costa Rica Registers 4500 Assaults
The Costa Rican Official Judicial Research Department (IRB) reported Monday that there have been 4,500 reported assaults in the first eight months of 2006, most of them with firearms.

Costa Rica Ratifies Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism
Costa Rica has joined the United States and 19 other nations in the Western Hemisphere in ratifying a regional pact designed to eliminate the financing of terrorism and to deny safe haven to suspected terrorists.

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006; Canada and USA Off To Rio Beach Party
The U.S. team was named top dogs of the week-long competition in Punta Leona, Costa Rica, even before playing their fourth and final match.

Calderón Five Suspect Being Treated There
In an ironic development, Juan Carlos Ledezma, the young man who is the prime suspect in the fire at the Calderón Guardia hospital last year is now being hospitalized in the same hospital.

INS Cancels Unemployment Insurance
For many who lost their jobs through firing they could count on their Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) insurance policy.