AFTER weeks of negotiations amongteachers’ unions, Ombudsman JoséManuel Echandi, disgruntled high-schoolstudents and government officials, thepercentage of students who have passedthe controversial exámenes de bachillerato,the...
IMMIGRATION authorities uncovered123 cases of marriages by foreignersto Costa Ricans last year allegedly stagedto gain resident status here – a practicethat has become increasingly...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco will travelto Ecuador Jan. 25 to attend a summiton how Latin American countries willhandle pending banana tariff changes inthe European Union...
RESIDENTS and visitors in CostaRica consumed 5.7% more oil in 2004compared to 2003, according to NationalOil Refinery (RECOPE) statistics publishedin the daily Al Día.Last...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EFE) - TheUnited States is extending until late 2006the Temporary Protected Status of roughly250,000 Salvadoran immigrants whoseremittances are crucial to their homeland’seconomy,...
GUATEMALA CITY (EFE) -Guatemalan authorities last weekenddeclared a state of alert following threevolcanic eruptions within just days ofeach other.National disaster office spokesmanHugo Hernández said...
TEGUCIGALPA (EFE) - HonduranPresident Ricardo Maduro this weekannounced that the issues of regionalsecurity, Central American integration andsupport for a common candidate for secretarygeneral of...
TUGUCIGALPA – As a single mother,Fani Fuentes supported her three childrenon a salary of less than $200 a monthworking at Honduras’ Gildan Activewareclothing-assembly plant.She...
TEGUCIGALPA (EFE) – Honduranpolice this week captured a member ofthe Mara Salvatrucha street gang suspectedof participating in the Dec. 23 massacreof 28 people on...
A Starbucks float dedicated to CostaRican coffee growers was a hit at the116th Rose Bowl parade in Pasadena,California, on New Year’s Day, winningthe Excellence...
