<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Inside Costa Rica &#187; Front Page</title> <atom:link href="https://insidecostarica.com/frontpage/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>https://insidecostarica.com</link> <description>Costa Rica&#039;s Leading English Language News Source</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:35:33 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2</generator> <item><title>Costa Rica could see up to 60,000 Zika cases, health official says</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-rica-see-60000-zika-cases-health-official-says/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-rica-see-60000-zika-cases-health-official-says/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:12:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[More of Today's News & Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20983</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Medical epidemiologist and newly-appointed coordinator of Costa Rica’s National Disease Vector Control Program, Rodrigo Marin Rodriguez said that Costa Rica could see up to 60,000 cases of Zika infection in a worst case scenario in an interview published by the daily La Nacion on Friday.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-rica-see-60000-zika-cases-health-official-says/">Costa Rica could see up to 60,000 Zika cases, health official says</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-rica-see-60000-zika-cases-health-official-says/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Costa Rica’s Health Ministry confirms second imported case of Zika virus</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-ricas-health-ministry-confirms-second-imported-case-zika-virus/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-ricas-health-ministry-confirms-second-imported-case-zika-virus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:22:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[More of Today's News & Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20977</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health confirmed a second imported case of the Zika virus on Friday.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-ricas-health-ministry-confirms-second-imported-case-zika-virus/">Costa Rica’s Health Ministry confirms second imported case of Zika virus</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/costa-ricas-health-ministry-confirms-second-imported-case-zika-virus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Zika virus could be a perfect storm in Latin America, millions could become infected</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/zika-virus-perfect-storm-latin-america-millions-become-infected/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/zika-virus-perfect-storm-latin-america-millions-become-infected/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 21:32:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[More of Today's News & Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20987</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The WHO warns the Zika virus is spreading rapidly through the Americas and could affect as many as four million people.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/zika-virus-perfect-storm-latin-america-millions-become-infected/">Zika virus could be a perfect storm in Latin America, millions could become infected</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/zika-virus-perfect-storm-latin-america-millions-become-infected/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Venezuela&#8217;s capital ranks as the world&#8217;s most murderous city</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/venezuelas-capital-ranks-worlds-murderous-city/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/venezuelas-capital-ranks-worlds-murderous-city/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[More of Today's News & Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20971</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Just when Venezuelans thought things couldn’t get worse, that’s exactly what they did.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/venezuelas-capital-ranks-worlds-murderous-city/">Venezuela&#8217;s capital ranks as the world&#8217;s most murderous city</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/29/venezuelas-capital-ranks-worlds-murderous-city/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Special feature: Portrait of a Central American migrant smuggler</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/special-feature-portrait-central-american-migrant-smuggler/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/special-feature-portrait-central-american-migrant-smuggler/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:58:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20959</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Travel along with one of Central America's migrant smugglers, better known in this part of the world as a "pollero". For the past four years, he has been earning a living running migrants through a lethal gauntlet; from the gang-ridden hinterlands of Central America, through Mexico with its ever vigilant migration authorities and brutal cartels - all in the aim of reaching the US.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/special-feature-portrait-central-american-migrant-smuggler/">Special feature: Portrait of a Central American migrant smuggler</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/special-feature-portrait-central-american-migrant-smuggler/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bill seeking tougher penalties for sexual exploitation of minors advances to Costa Rica’s Legislature</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/bill-seeking-tougher-penalties-sexual-exploitation-minors-advances-costa-ricas-legislature/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/bill-seeking-tougher-penalties-sexual-exploitation-minors-advances-costa-ricas-legislature/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20962</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>A bill that seeks to toughen penalties for the sexual exploitation of minors advanced to Costa Rica’s Legislature on Tuesday.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/bill-seeking-tougher-penalties-sexual-exploitation-minors-advances-costa-ricas-legislature/">Bill seeking tougher penalties for sexual exploitation of minors advances to Costa Rica’s Legislature</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/bill-seeking-tougher-penalties-sexual-exploitation-minors-advances-costa-ricas-legislature/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>UN, El Salvador launch US-backed anti-corruption program</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/un-el-salvador-launch-us-backed-anti-corruption-program/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/un-el-salvador-launch-us-backed-anti-corruption-program/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20964</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The U.N. on Monday announced a U.S.-financed pilot program to help fight corruption in El Salvador, a Central American country so torn by drugs and gang warfare that it ranks among the most violent in the world.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/un-el-salvador-launch-us-backed-anti-corruption-program/">UN, El Salvador launch US-backed anti-corruption program</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/un-el-salvador-launch-us-backed-anti-corruption-program/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Catholic Church accused of shielding priest who abused some 100 children in Mexico</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/catholic-church-accused-shielding-priest-abused-100-children-mexico/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/catholic-church-accused-shielding-priest-abused-100-children-mexico/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20968</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The Oaxaca Children's Forum was joined Tuesday by several priests and activists in accusing Mexico's Catholic hierarchy of protecting a priest who may have abused around 100 children.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/catholic-church-accused-shielding-priest-abused-100-children-mexico/">Catholic Church accused of shielding priest who abused some 100 children in Mexico</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/27/catholic-church-accused-shielding-priest-abused-100-children-mexico/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Costa Rica seeks US $1 million in aid for continued care of Cuban migrants</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/costa-rica-seeks-us-1-million-aid-continued-care-cuban-migrants/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/costa-rica-seeks-us-1-million-aid-continued-care-cuban-migrants/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:54:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20953</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Costa Rica is seeking some US $1 million in assistance from the international community and NGOs to assist the country in the continued care of thousands of US-bound Cuban migrants that remain trapped in refugee shelters throughout country.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/costa-rica-seeks-us-1-million-aid-continued-care-cuban-migrants/">Costa Rica seeks US $1 million in aid for continued care of Cuban migrants</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/costa-rica-seeks-us-1-million-aid-continued-care-cuban-migrants/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>President Solis promises progress in public works and infrastructure this year</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/president-solis-promises-progress-public-works-infrastructure-year/</link> <comments>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/president-solis-promises-progress-public-works-infrastructure-year/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:32:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Inside Costa Rica Staff</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Front Page]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Morning Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20946</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Costa Rica president Luis Guillermo Solis promised to make progress in public works and infrastructure this year during an address on Thursday.</p><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/president-solis-promises-progress-public-works-infrastructure-year/">President Solis promises progress in public works and infrastructure this year</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://insidecostarica.com">Inside Costa Rica</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://insidecostarica.com/2016/01/22/president-solis-promises-progress-public-works-infrastructure-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>