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Can Central America business sectors speak as one voice during Obama visit?

A divided isthmus faces the challenge of agreeing on a unified business strategy to attract U.S. investors. Some analysts remain skeptical.

Escazú sports bar popular among Gringos shutters its doors

Time Out Tavern patrons have settled up for the last time.

U.S. Embassy releases video welcoming Obama to Costa Rica

Video features Ticos welcoming the U.S. president to the country.

Obama will try again to shut Guantanamo prison

On Wednesday, Cuba's foreign minister demanded that Washington shut Guantanamo Bay and return the long-held military base to Havana.

Costa Rican president’s State of the Nation speech focuses on security, trade accomplishments

President Laura Chinchilla asked opposition lawmakers to increase dialogue in order to expedite passage of new laws.

Biofuel pioneer forsakes renewables to make gas-fed fuel

The basic concept behind advanced biofuels, using bioengineered microorganisms to digest organic matter and produce hydrocarbons, is sound, Alan Shaw says. The flaw is basing an industry on plants.

Immigration issues loom ahead for Obama’s trip to Mexico, Costa Rica

The number of migrants from Central America who were arrested trying to enter the United States illegally last year nearly doubled, to 99,000.

May Day protests staged across the world against austerity, ‘slave labor’

Unemployment has reached a staggering 59 percent among Greece's under-25s.

Bolivia announces expulsion of USAID

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had encouraged improved relations with Bolivia.

U.S. has ‘no current plans’ to take Cuba off terror list

Washington accuses the communist-run island of harboring Colombian rebels, Basque militants and U.S. fugitives.

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