Community organizer Barack Obama filmed a guest spot on the intentionally awkward Funny or Die web show "Between Two Ferns." The six-minute clip debuted this morning (it was filmed two weeks ago, and kept under wraps until last night).
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s highest court ruled last Friday that Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz will be out of office in May, half a year before her original end of term.
Preliminary results showed Salvador Sanchez Ceren, the former rebel commander, edging out conservative candidate Norman Quijano by 6,634 votes, 50.11 percent to 49.89.
Bolton will perform at 8 p.m. at the Hotel Intercontinental, west of San José. The 1,100-capacity venue offers tickets for either $179 or $224, depending on your seat.
Director of the Electoral Registry Héctor Fernández on Monday ruled out that pictures that appeared on a Daily Extra report are of original ballots that would be used in the runoff presidential election scheduled for April 6.
An estimated 86 percent of the cocaine trafficked into the United States passes through Central America, according to the United States State Department’s 2014 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. The firehose of cocaine passing through the isthmus has led the State Department to name Costa Rica and its Central American neighbors as major drug producing and drug-transit countries.
In the face of violent protests roiling Venezuela, many of Latin America's leaders have backed the government of President Nicolás Maduro, some have stayed mum and only a few have complained.
Born in the Honduran mountain town of Siguatepeque, Brig. Gen. Romeo Orlando Vásquez Velásquez attended the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas near Ft. Benning, Georgia, in the 1970s and ’80s. Despite his lifelong love for the United States, he cannot set foot on U.S. soil.
