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Monthly Archives: March, 2015

President Solís laments media criticism; analysts say it’s nothing new

Tuesday’s comments were the latest from the government on perceived slights by the media. This past Sunday, La Nación printed an op-ed from Solís in which the president complained about daily harassment from the press.

Why Midwestern farmers want to break the Cuba embargo

HAVANA – Cuba policy sometimes makes strange bedfellows, which is how a man like Thomas Marten, a burly Illinois soybean farmer with a bushy red beard, had come to Havana to make a statement about the principles of free enterprise.

How chocolate cake led to Mexican drug kingpin’s arrest

TUMBISCATIO, Mexico – He traveled by four-wheeler and on horseback. He lived in caves and on secluded mountain ranches, surrounded by his bodyguards and logistics men who kept his meth-dealing cartel dominant for years in the western state of Michoacán. When authorities finally caught up with Servando Gómez Martínez, they got him with chocolate cake.

Following public outcry, Costa Rica temporarily blocks exports of hammerhead shark fins

The suspension came in response to the controversy sparked after environmental authorities gave permission to the company Smalley Development S.A. to export more than 1,200 kilograms of hammerhead fins on Feb. 16.

Still no results in El Salvador elections following Sunday’s vote

The Salvadoran daily La Prensa Gráfica reported Tuesday that voting authorities carried out two test tallies prior to the election, and that both were failures.

Costa Rica’s Supreme Court orders release of Nicaraguan unjustly imprisoned for 17 months

Justices ordered Costa Rica's Prison System and the Judicial Investigation Police to open an investigation on the case.

Venezuela gives US 15 days on embassy staff cuts

The move came after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro lashed out Saturday at U.S. "conspiracies" against his socialist government and ordered his foreign ministry to reduce the number of officials at the U.S. Embassy from 100 to 17.

Costa Rica of yesteryear is just 20 minutes from Jacó

If you’re looking for a break from Jacó’s non-stop action, the beach town’s antithesis is just eighteen kilometers away. As close as that is,...

Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano erupts

A column of ash rose as high as three kilometers above the volcano, which is about 2,800 meters high. About 45 families were stranded in one community after a swollen river washed out a bridge.

Photos: A salute to Costa Rica’s natives on World Wildlife Day

In 2013 the United Nations declared March 3 as World Wildlife Day to celebrate biodiversity and spread awareness about wildlife conservation.

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