More than half the arrests involved domestic violence, despite a government campaign to curb a recent spike in domestic abuse complaints during the World Cup.
While most of the nation was celebrating Costa Rica's long run in the World Cup Saturday, a large group of farmers in the country's southeastern indigenous territory of Salitre were taking up arms.
Since Plato penned “The Republic,” students of government have been asking of those who govern: “Who guards the guardians?” In Costa Rica, the answer to that question is the Defensoría de los Habitantes, or Ombudsman’s Office.
Ombudswoman Ofelia Taitelbaum on Monday morning submitted a letter of resignation to the Legislative Assembly just days after lawmakers and Judicial Investigation Police announced they would open an investigation into allegations that she had committed tax fraud.
PALENQUE, Mexico – A strong, magnitude-6.9 earthquake rocked parts of southern Mexico and Guatemala on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 40 others.
Many Costa Ricans and their most fervent fans have been sitting in the eye of a storm for the past few weeks, struck dumb by amazement, watching wide-eyed as accolades all over the world for “the little team that could” have whirled around us in dizzying splendor.
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Watch the reactions of Costa Rica fans in the Plaza de la Democracia as they watch their national soccer team fall to the Netherlands...
New leftist President Salvador Sánchez Cerén -- an ex-rebel commander who has decided to keep living in his family home in a middle-class area of the city -- reopened the building as a place where the socially excluded can come to reflect on their country and its artistic wealth.
CARACAS, Venezuela — In the 15 months since Hugo Chávez's demise, his successor, Nicolás Maduro, has kept the Chávez enterprise rolling, sticking to the comandante's policy prescriptions like an executor carrying out a will.
