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Not exactly a book review

Retired Associated Press reporter Joseph Frazier, who covered the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua and the civil war in El Salvador, has a new memoir based on his reporting during the war years between 1979-1986. Dery Dyer reviews this great new book and shares personal insight into those difficult years.

Her boy was taken

A year after 19-year-old Ravi Thackurdeen drowned in a rip current in Costa Rica, his mother Ros remains paralyzed by grief.

Tico Boston Marathon hero back home for Obama’s visit

These days, Carlos Arredondo is a celebrity everywhere he goes – and with good reason: He’s taking more of life’s blows than anyone should have to endure. Yet he always seems to come out fighting. Now, he’s fighting to get veterans with depression the help they deserve.

Eric Toth, accused of child pornography, evaded authorities for 5 years

Authorities had warned Toth would not stop molesting children until he was caught.

Obama finishes trip to Central America, reaffirms hopes for immigration reform

Obama expressed confidence that a final bill would not only gain his support by including a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States but also ultimately pass Congress.

Syria threatens ‘all options’ after Israeli airstrikes

Syria's civil war could spill across regional borders.

WTO set to pick new leader, amid talks deadlock

Former Canadian trade minister: "It's the emerging economies that are now the economic locomotive globally."

U.S. billionaire Warren Buffet optimistic on stocks

U.S. stocks soared to new closing records Friday after a strong U.S. jobs report.

Obama promises renewed ties with Central America on first of 2-day summit

In an atmosphere that resembled a national holiday for Costa Ricans, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Central American leaders and promises closer links to the region on security, energy and trade policy.

Obama to discuss drug war, trade in Central America

The Costa Rican capital was under tight security for the summit, with a heavy police presence, streets closed to pedestrians and cars, and shops and schools shuttered.

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