Costa Rican national team member Óscar Duarte has agreed to a four-year deal with Espanyol, a club in Spain's top division. The defender is expected to start right away as his new team takes on Keylor Navas' Real Madrid on Sunday.
The 2016 National Surf Circuit kicked off this past weekend in Playa Cocles on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast with a panoply of talented young athletes competing on over 8-foot-high waves and in occasional downpours of rain.
The Costa Rican tricolor flew at half mast in observance of a national day of mourning Monday for the drowning of Costa Rican tourists in the Corn Islands.
El Salvador's former President Francisco Flores, who is facing trial for embezzling aid money for earthquake victims, is in a coma after suffering a stroke, his lawyers said Monday.
Luis Almagro has been secretary general of an institution generally regarded as moribund: the Organization of American States. Thanks to him, it is rapidly becoming relevant again.
2015 was a year of rainfall extremes in Costa Rica -- Guanacaste faced a historically bad drought and heavy rainfall caused floods along the Caribbean.
