Aspen Institute Fellows from across the Aspen Global Leadership Network, all of whom will have attended both the Challenge of Leadership Seminar as well as the Aspen Seminar, are currently in Costa Rica for the Leading in an Era of Globalization seminar. In the Challenge of Leadership Seminar, Fellows were asked to reflect on the attributes of “effective, enlightened leadership”; in the Asp...

Source: America TeVe MIAMI, Jan. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- América TeVé once again makes television history in the United Stateswith its unique coverage of its' caravan – Path To Freedom Route. For the first time, a professional news team accompanies step by step and day by day, the first group of Cuban refugees stranded for months in Costa Rica, through its pilgrimage through Central Americ...

Pixabay Commons The passports of two German citizens awaiting trial in Costa Rica cannot be held by judicial officials and must be immediately turned over to the Embassy. Such was the demand sent by the German Consulate to the Honorable Judge Yorleny Campos of the criminal court division, Second Circuit of San Jose, earlier this week. According to a news report filed by Daniel Chinchilla Sa...

BirdSongSOS.com Imagine a world without birdsong. Su Rynard’s wide-ranging and contemplative documentary THE MESSENGER explores our deep-seated connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey and from the streets of New York to the coffee farms of Costa Rica, ...

Source: Abbott CINDE Press Release - With the presence of Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis and Abbott Vascular Division Senior Vice President Mr. Deepak Nath, the company celebrated the fifth anniversary of its vascular devices manufacturing plant in Costa Rica, whose products are distributed and used around the world. Abbott has been in Costa Rica for over 80 years through the sa...

Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Jan 16 (EFE).- Dozens of residents in Lynwood, California, accepted the city's challenge Saturday to lose weight and at the same time take home $3,500 and learn what they need to know about diet and exercise. The municipal government of this city in Los Angeles County is into its seventh "Cash for Chunkers" program, which aims to motivate the community to stay...

Wikimedia Commons The leading provider of foreign currency in the United Kingdom recently named Australia, Costa Rica, Iceland, Vietnam and Peru as being among the top vacation hotspots for 2016 in terms of exchange leverage. The strength of the British pound sterling looks set to play a pivotal role in holiday destination choice according to the Holiday Money Report 2016 from Post Office T...

Guests can experience the best and the most of the game of golf on a week-long, multi-destination golf tour package through an exclusive partnership between Magellan Jets, Four Seasons Hotel Miami, Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo and Four Seasons Resort Nevis. The exclusive Private Jet Tropical Tee and Golf Tour lines up play on three world-renowned championship courses in ...

Zinedine Zidane. Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Jan 16 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Real Madrid head coach Zinedine Zidane said FIFA had made an "absurd" decision in barring the club from registering new players until July 2017 as punishment for its alleged breach of rules against the international transfer of under-18 players, predicting that the ban would be overturned. ...

CIMA Hospital in San Jose is often visited by medical tourists A slippery United States citizen of Persian ancestry claims that his health is rapidly deteriorating as he awaits trial in Costa Rica, and he is planning international demonstrations to call attention to his plight. Cyrus Anoushirvan Sepher, a Southern California resident in his early 50s, has been remanded to the San Sebastian ...

Source: Pixabay Commons On any given day at the Del Rey Hotel and Casino in San Jose, dozens of prostitutes and their prospective clients converge at the main bar to engage in the perennial business activity of haggling for sexual services. In Costa Rica, entire websites are dedicated to instructing North American and European sexual tourists to not pay more than $100 per sexual tryst, whic...

Although no Zika virus infections have been reported in Costa Rica as of mid-January, officials from the Ministry of Public Health (Spanish initials: MSP) are not taking any chances. According to a news report published yesterday by El Nuevo Diario, a national newspaper in Nicaragua, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will hold a workshop on this dangerous virus on February 2nd and 4th...

3nderapp.com For some open-minded users of mobile technology, three is not a crowd. A new mobile dating app geared towards the polyamorous recently completed a venture funding round and is gaining popularity. Similar to Tinder and Grindr, 3ndr is a mobile app that enables sexual encounters and dating based on factors related to proximity, gender identity, and sexual preference; it also make...

Wikimedia Commons Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg is part of a generation of players who dazzled fans with not only blistering court performances but also with their off-the-court hedonism and excesses. Along with Vitas Gerulaitis, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, Borg was known as an international tennis playboy whose personal life was filled with a succession of wild parties and sexy celebriti...

Source: Facebook A swimsuit and lingerie model from Costa Rica will be evaluated by a prison psychiatrist in Nicaragua after she allegedly expressed strong suicidal intentions. Such was the report broadcast by Nicaraguan news radio station La Nueva Ya yesterday about Kathia Adriana Corella, who has been incarcerated in that country since early December. As previously reported by The Costa R...

Alleged Greenwashing by Infinito Gold VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 15, 2016) - Infinito Gold Ltd. ("Infinito") (NEX:IG.H) is pleased to announce that it entered into a litigation funding agreement effective December 21, 2015 ("LFA). Under the terms of the LFA, the funder has agreed to provide non-recourse financing to Infinito in connection with the legal costs of Infini...

Source: NY Cosmos NEW YORK (January 14, 2016) – The New York Cosmos announced today the signing of forward Jairo Arrieta pending a physical examination. As per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arrieta, 32, arrives in New York having made 27 appearances and 15 starts for D.C. United during their 2015 Major League Soccer (MLS) campaign. He scored five goals and picked up two ass...

NexusTours Bus TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - January 14, 2016) - Passengers of NexusTours are now able to access free Wi-Fi during airport transfers or on route to and from excursions while on board one of NexusTours' modern, branded vehicles. An innovative and leading provider of destination management services, NexusTours offers multiple types of transportation to suit the needs of every trave...

Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Source: Wikimedia Commons The sons of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, the drug cartel boss recently captured by Mexican marines after a fierce firefight, may have met with a businessman in northern Costa Rica to discuss an operational expansion plan. Such was the matter discussed at the Legislative Assembly earlier today during a special session called after an intelligence rep...

Rotem Sivan Ultra-talented jazz musician Rotem Sivan is being hailed as one of the most gifted guitarists of all time, and he is coming to Costa Rica for two exclusive performances in March. Sivan is a guitarist for the 21st century, with an international background and border-defying interests. He has developed a glowing tone and quicksilver phrasing, as well as a sophisticated sense of rh...

Newtown Square, PA (PRWEB) January 13, 2016 - The undisputed market leader for charter services to Mexico and the Caribbean, Apple Vacations is expanding its Exclusive Vacation Flight charter program in 2016 with increased service from the West Coast, including several new departure gateways. Beginning May 1, 2016, Apple Vacations will launch its first ever Exclusive Vacation Flight charters fr...

Maritime Executive Press Release - GT USA announced the January 2016 launch of the new Blue Stream weekly container cargo service connecting Port Canaveral to Europe, the French West Indies, and Central America. The Blue Stream service is operated by StreamLines, N.V., part of the Seatrade Group, providing refrigerated and dry container service to and from the Canaveral Cargo Terminal, with a f...

Campbell speaks to a young Tico fan. Source: NanoSeventeen Twitter Arsenal Football Club Press Release - Joel Campbell is this season's Francis Coquelin, according to Arsène Wenger. The Costa Rica forward was the catalyst for Arsenal's FA Cup comeback on Saturday, scoring the equaliser and playing a major part in Aaron Ramsey 's goal as the Gunners came from behind to beat Sunderland. We...

Source: Airbnb SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Airbnb, the world's leading community-driven hospitality company, today unveiled the most popular Wish-Listed locations and properties around the globe. Airbnb Wish Lists is a feature that lets travelers save and share their favorite Airbnb listings, whether a cabin in Cornwall or a villa in Bali. Each of the almost two million listin...

Source: Starbucks The Starbucks Origin Experience takes partners (employees) from behind the counters of stores, corporate offices and roasting plants and brings them to work alongside farmers in coffee growing regions. The program offers a valuable perspective for people who have a passion for coffee, but may not have a connection to the distant places where coffee is grown. Starbucks phot...

IOM Media Release - A pilot group of 180 Cuban economic migrants stranded in Costa Rica since 14 November, 2015, left shelters provided by the Government of Costa Rica and departed the country as regular migrants. They have each paid USD 555 for a commercial plane and bus tickets in a package trip to reach Mexico via El Salvador and Guatemala. “The departure of the pilot group of Cubans should ...

Wikimedia Commons (TRAVPR.COM) UK - 12th January, 2016 - Sumak Travel, the UK based social enterprise that specializes in Latin American ecotourism, has partnered with the Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation (CPF) to launch a range of Fair Trade Adventures in Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru. Four new small group tours will give travelers a rare opportunity to meet farmers and artisans behind popula...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Jan 12 (EFE).- The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the world's oldest, will stop using elephants in its shows next May, though it will continue staging acts with other animals, the circus's production company, Feld Entertainment, said. When the cut-off date arrives, at least 42 pachyderms will be taken to the Center for Elephant Conservation in Flo...

Source: SIG (PresseBox) (Linnich, 12.01.2016) Products from Dos Pinos (www.dospinos.com) are the first choice for consumers in Costa Rica, as the 2015 “Brand Footprint” annual report published by Kantar World Panel confirms: 99.7% of survey participants said they had purchased products from Dos Pinos during the previous year. This successful cooperative – Central America’s and the Caribbean’s ...

Source: SWAmedia.com DALLAS, Jan. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today published its initial flight schedule for international service at Terminal 2, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with daily service beginning Tuesday, April 12, 2016, from LAX to Daniel Oduber Quiros International Airport (LIR) in Liberia/Guanacaste, Costa Rica, subject to foreign governme...

Sunrise Tamarindo by Valenzuela Architecture Herredura, Costa Rica (PRWEB) January 12, 2016 - World renowned architect Abraham Valenzuela brings 35 years of architectural experience to Punta Bocana, with a reputation for fashioning exceptional homes and amazing commercial environments in the most exclusive areas of San Jose, Tamarindo, Nosara and Guanacaste, to name a few. Valenzuela’s primary...

By Carlos Heras La Paz, Jan 12 (EFE; additional context by The Costa Rica Star).- Agriculture, which accounts for about 15 percent of Bolivia's gross domestic product, is at the center of a controversy over genetically modified crops, with the government limiting the use of transgenic seeds to soybeans and farmers demanding expanded use to increase productivity. Bolivia restricts the use of ...

Source: Hills of Portalon Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica – January 11, 2016 /MarketersMedia/ — The Ridges of Portalon, a micro-community of the master planned development the Hills of Portalon, announced today the upcoming sale to the public of their recently opened whitewater ocean-view lots. The Ridges of Portalon is located in Costa Rica between Dominical and Quepos/Manuel Antonio and is antici...

Wikimedia Commons CHICAGO, Jan. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A.T. Kearney today released its 2016 Global Services Location Index™ (GSLI), a research paper that analyzes and ranks the top 55 countries for outsourcing worldwide based on metrics in three categories: financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, and business environment. T he GSLI brings rigor to companies' location dec...

Wikimedia Commons By Juan Carlos Gomi Bogota, Jan 11 (EFE).- The Spanish galleon San Jose did not sink off Colombia under attack by English ships, as contemporaneous accounts say, and perhaps it did not go down in the Caribbean with its load of treasure due to a powerful explosion, as English commodore Charles Wager reported, nautical researcher Daniel de Narvaez MacAllister told EFE. Th...

Source: Pornhub In what has become a New Year tradition for Internet media analysts, the most visited network of pornographic websites in the world has released its annual insights and analytics report, which indicated that more than a third of its visitors from Costa Rica in 2015 were female. Pornhub is part of a pornographic video sharing network that gets nearly one million visits per da...

Texas A&M University - Flickr Commons Roy Frank "RJ" Mitte III, an actor and film producer from the United States, is known for his role as Walter White's son on the acclaimed television series Breaking Bad. RJ Mitte will be in Costa Rica to attend the Anime and Manga Matsuri International Convention and Festival, which will take place in San Jose on January 16th and 17th. RJ Mitte live...

FreeStockPhotos.biz The looming economy crisis in Latin America is becoming more apparent with new reports from Mexico and Venezuela. The national currency of Mexico showed signs of retail weakness as global markets plummeted due to concerns about reduced growth of the Chinese economy, and the price of crude oil produced in Venezuela, an OPEC member nation, fell well below $30. The followin...

Source: Blue River Resort Costa Rica Rincon de la Vieja, Costa Rica, January 9, 2016. Dinosaurs have indeed taken up residence in the spectacular Rincon de la Vieja Volcano National Park. The premier Dinosaur Adventure Park is being unveiled by The Blue River Resort & Hot Springs in a lush Rain Forest, along a Blue River. The resort is located on the North Side of the Majestic Volcano R...

Pixabay Commons Press Release by Seattle Sounders FC - The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) confirmed this evening the completion of the field for the historic 2016 Copa America Centenario, to be played this June in stadiums across the United States. In a pair matches contested in Panama City on Friday evening, Panama defeated Cuba and Ha...