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Monthly Archives: August, 2013

UPDATE: Ticket prices announced for Latin rock legends Café Tacvba show in Costa Rica on Sept. 19

The Grammy award-winning Mexican band will make its first appearance in Costa Rica since 2009. Local groups Cocofunka and 424 will open for Café Tacvba as part of a weekend-long music series produced by magazine WARP.

Venezuela implicates Obama and Costa Rica in alleged presidential assassination plot

Since Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro took over for the deceased Hugo Chávez in March, his government has alleged multiple assassination plots while providing few details on their nature.

3 Costa Ricans kidnapped in Panama are released, 8 suspects in custody

Costa Rican police sweep a northern San José district and arrest eight suspected members of an international kidnapping ring just hours after three kidnapped Costa Ricans are released in Panama.

Guatemala: The worst place in the world to be a trade unionist

“It is very shameful for us that our country is the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists today,” says Guatemala’s president.

Collapsed highway could take four months to fix, Costa Rica Transport Ministry says

A damaged section of Route 39, known as Circunvalación, could cost $3 million to fix, the ministry estimates.

U.S. couple fails to find missing son, but upbeat over Costa Rican officials’ new willingness to cooperate

The parents of Chicago resident David Gimelfarb – who has been missing in Costa Rica for four years – said Costa Rican authorities are now open to working with agencies from the United States to find their son.

Cargo traffic snared at Costa Rica-Panama border as truckers stage protest

A small group of semitrailer drivers are blocking cargo transit in protest over what they say are "excessive" inspections by Panamanian officials.

Jairo Mora honored at 50th anniversary of Costa Rica’s National Park System

Environment vice minister signs executive decree authorizing park rangers to carry firearms in protected areas and giving rangers higher pay for performing police duties, following murder of turtle conservationist on May 31.

Mexico migrant train derailment kills 5, injures 22

Officials expect the death toll to rise.

Syria okays U.N. chemical weapons probe, U.S. weighs military action

British foreign secretary warns that evidence of a chemical attack by the Syrian may regime may have already been destroyed.

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