U.S. agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration have opened an office in Rio de Janeiro, host city for next year's Olympics, to help local forces fight drug and weapons traffickers.
Results of a study on consumer habits in the past year showed that people in Costa Rica are visiting grocery stores and supermarkets more often however they are spending less on each buy.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said the 195-nation climate negotiations in Bonn were "frustrating" and "slow." "We don't have any 'plan B' because we don't have any 'planet B,'" he said.
More than 100 people marched in the Costa Rican capital San José on Sunday to protest against sexual harassment in public places, or street harassment. They also marched in solidarity with the family of Gerardo Cruz, who was stabbed shortly after publicly denouncing a perpetrator of street harassment.