For the first time, agents seized cocaine intended to be smuggled through the tunnel as well as more than eight tons of marijuana, indicating that Mexican drug cartels are getting increasingly "desperate," U.S. officials said.
UPDATE: We've added more fiestas to the list. Halloween might not be a traditional Tico holiday. But there are plenty of places to dress up and celebrate in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica's Hoxton recently hosted the legendary former bass player of The Smiths in his first appearance in Central America. Before the DJ set, The Tico Times sat down with Rourke to talk about what still is one of the greatest bands to have hit the stage. See a video and photos of the show here.
Taking to his television show and the pages of his magazine, Confidencial, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro accused Nicaragua's military of harassing one of his reporters.
Before you write them off as a couple of Hollywood celebrity skin girls, be warned: They’re probably smarter than you. Rainforest Radio’s Jani Schulz and The Tico Times’ David Boddiger talk animal rights with the pinup girls-turned activists.
The godfather of punk, Brooklyn-born Reed forged a new cultural universe with his arthouse band the Velvet Underground, in an age of evolving youth identity.
You can help more than 3,500 children and adolescents who would otherwise have limited access to health care through the award-winning community children’s health clinic in Carillo.
Whether as the sneering wraith twirling gladioli during the Smiths' first appearance on Top of the Pops in 1983 or in his beefed-up, rockabilly-mechanic guise of today, Morrissey, now 54, has held fast to the mindset of late-20th-century pop music's great object and subject: the existentially bewildered adolescent.
