For an administration that was largely weighed down by scandal and perceived mismanagement, public security has ended up as President Laura Chinchilla’s most likely legacy for Costa Rica.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the per-kilogram price of rice in Costa Rica is the seventh highest in the world. The ranking was published in a Rice Market Monitor report released this week.
Negotiations that took place last week between three political parties for control of the Legislative Assembly’s directorate will play an important role in legislating by consensus. And that gives lawmakers considerable political capital, analysts say.
Spanish police seized 2.5 tons of cocaine hidden among pineapples on a ship from Costa Rica in one of the biggest ever seizures of the drug, they said Wednesday.
An inspection by volcanologists from the University of Costa Rica's National Seismological Network last weekend found that the water level in the lagoon inside the Poás Volcano’s crater has decreased by 110 centimeters in last month.
The Costa Rican Coast Guard in the southern city of Golfito confiscated 1.9 tons of cocaine Tuesday, and Spain seized 2.5 tons in a shipping container from Moín, according to the Public Security Ministry.
Alexander Leudo Nieves, a Colombian man who the U.S. government accuses of having links to an international drug trafficking cartel, could be released this month from a minimum-security prison in Costa Rica, where he is serving a seven-year sentence on drug-related charges.
Central America is a region rife with problems of inequality, political corruption, weak institutions, poverty, displaced and marginalized populations, and a history of violence. Two journalists who are part of a group of fellow scribes who spent several years looking at those issues and trying to understand them have compiled enough stories to turn them into a book.
Minnesota-based corporation Cargill Inc. announced the opening in Costa Rica of a business services center that will provide technical support to the group’s 50 companies in the Americas in areas such as finance, information technologies, human resources, transportation and logistics.
