"Today the Illinois House put our state on the right side of history," said Gov. Pat Quinn, who campaigned for the measure, which is scheduled to take effect in June.
Just like Halloween, the Day of the Dead is an imported holiday. But Ticos are increasingly embracing the rich tradition of honoring those who came before us. Check out these amazing shots by Portuguese photographer Rui Oliveira, taken at San José's Mexican Cultural Center and El Steinvorth last Saturday.
Peñas Blancas, on the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, accounts for a fifth of the total drug seizures in Costa Rica this year. In the latest bust, Costa Rican cops seized 430 kilos of cocaine from a passenger bus headed to Guatemala.
A new campaign hopes to pressure a move by President Laura Chinchilla to fire the board of directors of the Costa Rican Fisheries Institute, which is loaded with fishing industry insiders.
The population of the nearly extinct Eastern Pacific green sea turtle will likely be severely affected by the recent mass deaths, according to biologists. Longline fishing and a mass dynamiting are suspected killers.
Climate change, habitat destruction, the illegal pet trade and the spread of a severe and incurable fungus have been killing off amphibian species in...
