The international crisis over Ukraine escalated sharply Monday as the United States and Europe imposed sanctions on senior Russian political and military figures, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the Ukrainian region of Crimea as an independent state.
Public zoos will remain open in Costa Rica for at least 10 more years following a court ruling last Friday. An administrative court ruled in favor of nonprofit group FUNDAZOO, which administers San José's Simón Bolívar Zoo and the Santa Ana Conservation Center, citing a contractual technicality that will allow the group to continue operating the zoos until 2024. The Environment Ministry, or MINAE, had said it would close both zoos in May.
A group of 14 entrepreneurs from Germany arrived in Costa Rica over the weekend to evaluate investment opportunities in the country, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
The president of Costa Rica's Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE), Luis Antonio Sobrado, on Monday said the tribunal has denied a request from the Citizen Action Party to reprint more than 3 million ballots for the presidential runoff election scheduled for April 6. Sobrado said it would be impossible to reprint the ballots in time for the runoff.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Enrique Peñalosa, the former Bogotá mayor who introduced the city's mass transport system, is favored to win Colombia's presidential election this year just one week after being nominated, according to a new poll.
"Prepare yourself, we are coming for you," President Nicolás Maduro warned demonstrators in an address to thousands of soldiers gathered in support of the president on March 15. He then played John Lennon's song, "Give Peace a Chance."
There was live music. There were keg-stands. There were even trampolines. The mostly Tico crowd certainly embraced the Irish spirit – emphasis on the spirits.
El Salvador's election officials on Sunday declared ex-leftist guerrilla commander Salvador Sánchez Cerén the winner of a March 9 presidential election, after rejecting the opposition's last challenges to the results.
Park guards and coast guard officials say Costa Rica’s Isla del Coco National Park sits within a known drug-trafficking corridor that stretches from Colombia to Mexico.
