· November, 2008

Stories about Costa Rica from November, 2008

Costa Rica: Free Trade Agreement Ready For Implementation

  18 November 2008

After a lengthy process, which included a nationwide referendum where Costa Ricans approved a free-trade agreement with the United States, the laws will go into effect on January 1, 2009. However, it took consensus building within the National Assembly in order to pass the necessary laws, while some sectors of society had been calling for a process of renegotiation.

Costa Rica: Differences in Customer Service

  11 November 2008

Hazel Feigenblatt writes in her blog about the difference in attention that local tourists from Costa Rica receive, when compared to the customer service received by foreign tourists [es] , and how it seems that locals are treated like second-class citizens. Many commenters share their own bad experiences.

Costa Rica: Citizen Journalism Has Yet To Reach Its Full Potential

  4 November 2008

From local bloggers to professional journalists to those that simply follow the media, everybody is waiting for the The First International Encounter of Citizen Journalism to be held in San José on November 17th. Despite the fact that a considerable percentage of Costa Ricans have access to internet and related communication tools, citizen journalism is still not being developed at its full potential, and many hope that this event may help generate interest.