Costa Rica’s consumer confidence index in May reached 49.8 percent, its highest since February 2011 when it was 50.3, according to a new study by the University of Costa Rica. But a UCR expert says a boost in confidence is normal during electoral cycles.
With unfailing punctuality, the grocer receives text messages from his extortionist on the last day of each month. The medical students leave their lab coats at school, to avoid roaming gangsters who need surgery. The oil man mutters on his two-way radio as he drives behind tinted glass.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Former guerrilla commander Salvador Sánchez Cerén was sworn in Sunday as president of El Salvador with the pressing tasks of dealing with violent gangs, a struggling economy and endemic poverty.
"There's no doubt that Savile is one of the most, if not the most, prolific sex offender that we at the NSPCC have ever come across," said Peter Watt, director of child protection at the children's charity.
Let’s cut to the chase: Contemporary art is generally odd and uncomfortable, and the people who visit an art gallery feel compelled to “understand” it. The best way to approach a group show like “Day” is to seek out that one thing you particularly like.
The end of a decade-long boom driven by cheap money and strong commodity prices has deeply divided Latin America between fast-growth countries along the Pacific coast and stragglers on the Atlantic.
