It comes as no surprise that numerous travel Publications such as Condé Nast have singled out Costa as one of the places to vacation once the virus subsides. Costa Rica is expecting an onslaught of potential retirees and tourists because of its effective response to the coronavirus pandemic. Both the number of cases and deaths […]

current storms | forecasts to avoid | useful forecasts | historical storms NOAA predicts that heading into 2020 precipitation will be normal in Costa Rica. The Pacific side rainy season tapered off before the New Year.  The weather should be very dry in the northwest and dry along the central and southern Pacific and central […]

I started practicing law in Costa Rica in 2003. At the time, incorporating, or not incorporating a company in Costa Rica to hold real property and other assets, was a straight forward decision. Property buyers were Incorporating a Company for basically 3 reasons: 1.      Limited liability aspect afforded by the corporate structure, 2.      Anonymity afforded […]

Ruth Alfaro Jara was appointed as director of the National Bank (BN) despite being one of the members of the Board of Directors of Bancrédito in one of the most critical moments of that public financial intermediary, which went bankrupt after being intervened by Conassif due to bad administration, in 2017. The Governing Council said […]