Nalini Nadkarni is sitting with her notebook and tape measure near the top of a strangler fig in Costa Rica’s Monteverde forest, on a branch 35 metres above the ground that is almost broad enough to walk along. Attached to the rope she has climbed t...
Costa Ricans have elected as president Carlos Alvarado Quesada, a centre-left candidate promising to allow gay marriage, protecting the country’s reputation for tolerance. Quesada, a former minister and fiction writer, has won 61% of the vote with r...
Costa Rica goes to the polls this weekend for a presidential runoff election in which economic concerns have unexpectedly been overshadowed by a debate over gay marriage. The current frontrunner – rightwing evangelical candidate Fabricio Alvarado –...