Costa Rica hosts international coffee symposium

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The event is being held for the first time in Central America.

Costa Rican Vice President Luis Liberman on Monday inaugurated the 24th International Conference on Coffee Science, held for the first time in Costa Rica at the Ramada Plaza Herradura Hotel, in the province of Heredia.

For a week, the conference brings together more than 300 scientists, scholars and business owners to discuss coffee research from 30 countries.

Costa Rica has one of the highest rates of productivity per hectare of coffee in the world, and this productivity is the result of more than 60 years of research and development.

This is the first time that the Association for Science and Information on Coffee is organizing this conference in a Central American country and the third time in Latin America.

According to Ronald Peters, executive director of Costa Rica's National Coffee Institute, the event, along with the National Coffee Plantation Renewal Program, will serve to encourage research in the field. “In Costa Rica, coffee is expensive to produce, so we need to have access to the most advanced technology possible”.

Genetics, sustainability, product quality, pests, diseases, coffee processing and human physiology are among some of the topics being discussed.

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U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE TO MEET WITH CENTRAL AMERICAN FOREIGN MINISTERS.

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The United States is worried about an increase in drug trafficking in the region.

Concerned about Central America’s regional security strategy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet on Tuesday in New York with the region’s foreign ministers, including Costa Rican Foreign Minister Enrique Castillo.

The meeting will be held during a session of the United Nations, Foreign Vice Minister Carlos Roverssi said.

U.S. officials said they are concerned with an increase in drug trafficking in the Central America southern triangle, formed by Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Castillo also will meet with representatives from Russia and other countries during the visit to New York.

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ANOTHER YEAR OF BEING INDEPENDENT SEPTEMBER 15

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Every year on September 15, Costa Rica’s Independence Day celebrations commemorate freedom from Spanish rule in 1821.

Under Spanish rule, Costa Rica became a part of the kingdom of Guatemala from 1570 forward. Costa Rica’s inaccessibility from Guatemala City and because of its lack of natural resources it received little attention from the other provinces of Central America. The Spanish conquerors pretty much left the territory on its own devices. Costa Ricans therefore depended to farming that caters only for their own consumption. Costa Rica continued to play a minor role in the kingdom of Guatemala until the growth of tobacco as a major export. Guatemalan authorities later gave Costa Rica some importance because of its contribution in the production of commercial grade tobacco.

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In 1821, Costa Rica joined the other Central American provinces in declaring independence from Spain. Costa Rica spent a brief time in the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide. Later Costa Rica became a state in the Federal Republic of Central America from 1823 to 1839. As the newly independent provinces formed a Federation, border disputes caused much of the region’s turbulent history and conditions.

Costa Rica’s membership in the Federal Republic of Central America was short lived because in 1838 Costa Rica formally withdrew and proclaimed itself, sovereign as the Central American Federation was no longer performing its function.

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The people of Costa Rica celebrate Independence Day with much fun and merriment. The national holiday is marked by nationalistic parades and musical performances by the students in the community. Celebrations start a night before Independence Day with a parade of homemade lanterns that symbolizes the day when the news arrived in Costa Rica at nighttime.

In  Costa Developers we are very proud to be part of this country of peace and freedom.

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