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		<title>Atenas, Costa Rica &#8211; Retirement and Vacation Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004 my family and I decided to make our first trip to Costa Rica as a “research” mission to see if the Central America country would be a good candidate to purchase a vacation and/or retirement home.
I had met Gerardo Gonzalez-Porras back in the Florida  (part owner of Pure Life Development), and being Tico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Costa Ricans Influenced by Technology? &#8211; Tech Poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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A couple of months ago the above question was asked in Yahoo answers, and even if we answered,  &#8220;yes,” and gave our reason(s), we were totally surprised that one answered, &#8220;NO.&#8221;
Our second surprise, it was voted best answer!
Hummm &#8230; pretty clear those people had no idea of Costa Rica&#8217;s technology growth, or probably still think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Food in Costa Rica &#8211;  Junk Food &amp; Poster Child for Ad Pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can not remember when the first US fast food joint opened up in Costa Rica, but when it did, I first thought, &#8220;Well, there goes a country.&#8221; And since that time (I/m thinking around 1982 and a McDonalds) the tiny Central American country has been overrun with American’s fast food joints.
Cruising San Jose, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica’s Future &#8211; US Marines, Drugs, Investments, Tourism, and Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week our email box was pretty much filled with, “Why the US Marines were invading Costa Rica?” Even at our Facebook  account, a few commented on right-wing political BS, “It&#8217;s all about the oil, about building a military base in Costa Rica, and of keeping an eye on all the other dangerous countries around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Newspaper Will Publish Sales Tax Defaulters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime next week Expats that have not paid sales tax (or other taxes)  may find themselves in an embarrassing situation; this is when their names will be published in El Financiero, the weekly business newspaper put out by Grupo Nación.
Currently there are 1000s of Expats who own small businesses that vary from B &#38; Bs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys Win, Investors Lose in Costa Rica’s Villalobos Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We posted back in Aug, 2009 (Government Get Sued) and Dec, 2009 (Investors Suing Costa Rica Government)  thats when the Canadian investors formed a group  to sue the government of Costa Rica in an attempted to recoup money lost in the Villalobos Ponzi scheme they would probably  lose &#8230; they did in arbitration this past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Gold Mine Opens &#8211; Sparks Protests on International Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Costa Rican Supreme Court (Sala IV) ruled last Friday that a small Canadian mining company can proceed with its open-pit gold mine, striking down complaints from environmental groups that the project was destroying virgin forest.
&#8220;After reviewing the official studies we did not find that this mining project will negatively affect the environment. So the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a House in Costa Rica &#8211; Eco Friendly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are considering building  or investing in a home in Costa Rica then you will find these articles both useful and informative.  When I first began my primer steps, I searched the internet and papers and bulletins for information to give me direction and was not able to find any unbiased or truth or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Investment &#8211; Real Estate, Retire and Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first time in Jaco (about 20 years ago) it was a sleepy and traditional Costa Rican town that did not even have a stop light. Three years ago the skyline was filled with high-rise construction on the feeding frenzy of developers and speculators investing in property. However, that has changed, most investors are doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar&#8217;s Investment In Costa Rica &#8211; Emir&#8217;s Arrivial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With China investing heavily in Costa Rica in the last few years, it appears that the Middle East country of Qatar may be taking an investment  interest in Costa Rica also.
The ruler of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is now in Costa Rica and staying at, The Four Seasons on the Papagayo peninsula. [...]]]></description>
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