Conservationists hope unmanned aerial vehicles can help fight illegal fishing in Costa Rica's Cocos Island National Park. Similar drones have been used in South Africa to fight rhino poaching in national parks there.
Mexico and Costa Rica, two giants of the region's football landscape, have shrunk down to size amid competition in the Gold Cup. As they enter Sunday's quarterfinal match, both sides are looking to make up for blown opportunities in the group stage that saw seemingly sure victories turn into draws.
The "indignant" movement, as Honduran protestors are calling it, began last May with massive demonstrations demanding the president's resignation amid corruption allegations. Protestors also demand the creation of a United Nations committee against impunity, similar to the one that has helped prosecute government corruption in Guatemala.
The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber, or Sala IV, ruled that the Costa Rican Social Security System did not unfairly discriminate against an obese man who applied and was not hired for a job.
A Taiwanese animated comedy station made a hilarious parody of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's seemingly piece-of-cake escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.
The planet's surface temperature reached its hottest point in 135 years, international researchers said Thursday. In Latin America, Mexico had its warmest year on record, while Argentina and Uruguay each had their second warmest year on record.
