International Business News - Costa http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A Costa Rican official says U.S. authorities have intercepted a submarine-like vessel packed with tons of cocaine. Security Minister Janina del Vecchio said in a statement Tuesday that the 70-foot (20-meter) vessel was intercepted by the U.S. Navy in international waters near Costa Rica. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/us-navy-seizes-cocaine-laden-sub-off-costa-rica.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:16:28 EDT Costa Rica's highest court on Thursday overturned an intellectual property law demanded by the U.S. prior to the enactment of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/costa-rica-top-court-blocks-us-trade-pact-approval.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:38:14 EDT A Texas woman wanted by the FBI for international parental kidnapping has been awarded refugee status in Costa Rica and cannot be extradited to the United States. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98341-costa-rica-u-s-extradition.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080726/wanted-us-woman-freed-in-costa-rica.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080726/wanted-us-woman-freed-in-costa-rica.htm Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:23:12 EDT A Texas woman wanted by the FBI for international parental kidnapping has been awarded asylum in Costa Rica and cannot be extradited to the United States. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/us-woman-gets-asylum-in-costa-rica.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:36:19 EDT Costa Rica is saying goodbye to its 84-year-old insurance monopoly as it opens the industry to national and international competition. Lawmakers late Tuesday approved legislation to end the government-run Insurance Institute. President Oscar Arias is expected to sign it into law. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/costa-rica-to-end-insurance-monopoly.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:18:47 EDT The senior vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Eastman Chemical Co. sold 6,500 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/eastman-chemical-executive-sells-6-500-shares.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:37:16 EDT Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., which makes fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, said Monday it bought two Costa Rica fruit companies and an affiliated sales and marketing business for a total of $403 million. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080609/fresh-del-monte-produce-buys-costa-rica-producers.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:21:17 EDT Costa Rica has broken up its state-run telecommunications monopoly. The law signed Wednesday by President Oscar Arias meets one of the requirements demanded by Washington for the implementation of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/costa-rica-ends-telecommunications-monopoly.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:39:55 EDT Doctors have ordered Costa Rican President Oscar Arias not to talk for a month due to a cyst on his vocal cords, his office said Wednesday. Arias, a 67-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, had been losing his voice for several weeks and traveled Tuesday to be examined at the Philadelphia Ears, Nose and Throat Associates medical center, his office said in a statement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080522/doctors-tell-costa-rican-leader-to-rest-voice.htm Thu, 22 May 2008 01:29:55 EDT Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast. The ZooAve Center for the Rescue of Endangered Species has released 100 of the birds into the wild in the last decade. But biologists didn't spot offspring until last year, said biologist Laura Fournier. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44727-aptopix-costa-rica-bird-rescue.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/captive-macaws-now-reproduce-in-the-wild-in-costa-rica.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/captive-macaws-now-reproduce-in-the-wild-in-costa-rica.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 03:09:10 EDT Costa Rica has suspended legal cooperation with the United States and filed a diplomatic protest over what it called the "disrespectful" treatment of its attorney general at the Miami International Airport. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080426/costa-rica-protests-us-airport-security.htm Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:14:55 EDT Costa Rica has rejected a political asylum request by a Colombian presidential confidante accused of having ties with right-wing paramilitaries. The Foreign Ministry says that former Sen. Mario Uribe's request is inadmissible based on information shared with them by Colombian prosecutors. Uribe is a second cousin and close ally to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080422/costa-rica-denies-asylum-to-colombian.htm Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:20:39 EDT The Burger King is safe, at least in Costa Rica. Government officials said Friday they have banned commercials for the hamburger chain that depict mothers trying to run over company's plastic-heade... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080404/costa-rica-pulls-burger-king-ads.htm Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:52:37 EDT Costa Rican police detained 14 people Tuesday, including a family court judge and a lawyer, on suspicion of participating in a scheme in which mothers allegedly were paid to give up their babies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080304/costa-rica-nabs-14-for-selling-babies.htm Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:59:56 EST Costa Rican police detained 14 people Tuesday, including a family court judge and a lawyer, on suspicion of participating in a scheme in which mothers allegedly were paid to give up their babies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080304/costa-rica-nabs-14-in-adoption-scheme.htm Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:37:11 EST Costa Rica has until Oct. 1 to implement the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., the president announced Wednesday. The seven-month delay gives lawmakers extra time to adopt laws that were originally required by Feb. 29 under the accord. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080227/costa-rica-wins-cafta-delay.htm Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:44:16 EST Farmers in the mountains of Costa Rica found a Chilean air force plane that disappeared during World War II while flying from Texas to Chile. Police were led to the crash site after an anonymous caller reported seeing a local resident carrying plane parts in the town of San Isidro de El Guarco, located in the mountains outside of the Costa Rican capital of San Jose. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080227/missing-wwii-plane-found-in-costa-rica.htm Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:23:04 EST ArcelorMittal SA, the world's largest steelmaker, said Monday it had taken control of two Costa Rican steelmakers by buying the remaining outstanding stake in the companies for an undisclosed price. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080204/arcelormittal-buys-latam-steelmakers.htm Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:00:50 EST President Oscar Arias said Tuesday he will ask the U.S. to delay implementation of a free-trade agreement to give the country time to pass several necessary local laws. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080129/costa-rica-to-ask-for-us-trade-delay.htm Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:04:12 EST Costa Rican agents made the largest marijuana bust in the Central American nation's history, seizing 4.85 tons of the drug found in an abandoned boat, police said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20071222/costa-rica-reports-record-pot-bust.htm Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:02:27 EST