Costa Rica Announces Online Gambling Tax Plans
As widely reported here on Gambling911.com, the Central American online gambling haven of Costa Rica has once again decided it would like to tax such enterprises. Similar attempts in the past have failed.
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Readers React to Costa Rica Hotel Del Rey Crime Story
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One of the hottest stories on the Gambling911.com website Friday was Jagajeet Chiba’s look at escalating crime in Costa Rica, highlighted by a multiple shooting spree in front of the infamous Hotel Del Rey, which is…
Del Rey Drama — Shootout at the most famous bar south of the Rio Grande
Drive-by shooting at Del Rey
Shooting at Online Gambling Hotbed Highlights Costa Rica Crime Escalation
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News on Wednesday that there was a shooting outside the popular San Jose, Costa Rica online gambling hangout of the infamous Hotel Del Rey has sent shockwaves through the sector.
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Online Gambling Hotspot Hotel Del Rey Shot At
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It is the hangout of every online gambling operator and their employees in Costa Rica….the infamous Hotel Del Rey.
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U.S. Navy Joins Forces With Marines In Online Gambling Haven Costa Rica
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First the online gambling Mecca of Costa Rica announced grandiose plans to have some 7000 U.S. Marines occupy that Central American nation, now comes word that the Legislative Assembly has granted docking perm…
Even Calvin Ayre wants to enter Bodog’s ‘live like Calvin’ contest
Calvin Ayre is pissed. Not ‘wasted’ pissed, more like ‘fuck the fucking fuckers’ pissed-off pissed. What’s got him so riled? Well, it’s because all the various Bodog Brand licensees will soon be running contests in which players will have a chance to win all-expenses-paid five-day descents into hedonistic debauchery at the infamous Bodog Compound in [...]
Costa Rica President Defends US Marines Presence: Online Gambling Operators Balk
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Online gambling operators in the Central American nation of Costa Rica expressed little concern over the 7000 US Marines deployed there to deal with the escalating drug crisis.
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Protests as U.S. Marines prepare to hit the beach in Costa Rica
There’s angst aplenty in Costa Rica, as the first of the estimated 7,000 U.S. Marines load themselves into the landing craft for their ‘invasion’ of the Central American nation, which just happens to be home to half the online bookmakers in the western hemisphere. The move is supposedly intended to help combat drug trafficking (but [...]
700 US Marines Land in Costa Rica Online Gambling Haven
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It is home to a few hundred online gambling ventures, many of which operate in the shadows. Costa Rica has long been a country without an army….that is until now.
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