The Supreme Elections Tribunal called on Costa Ricans to exercise their right – and obligation – to vote while the presidential candidates zeroed in on unemployment and gaping inequality as the biggest challenges facing Costa Rica.
Guatemalan textiles have become famous throughout the world; however, the majority of the Mayan women who create them live in extreme poverty. Colección Luna is working to change that.
President Laura Chinchilla renewed her call for greater discussion about strengthening temporary measures handed down by the world court in an ongoing border dispute with Nicaragua.
President Barack Obama accused conservatives in the House of Representatives of waging an "ideological crusade" by making government funding conditional on gutting his health reform law.
In a troubling announcement this week, the Catholic Church has closed a human rights office that oversees an estimated 80 percent of documents regarding human rights abuses in El Salvador.
