Costa Rica to ration electricity as drought bites

Dams that feed the country's hydro-electric plants were low due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, officials said. "This El Nino has really been the most complicated in the history of Costa Rica," Roberto Quiros, director of the country's ICE electricity institute, told reporters in San Jose. Rationing will start Monday for an undetermined period. About 99 percent of Costa Rica's electricity comes from renewable sources -- about three-quarters from hydro-electric plants. "We have not seen a...