Francisco Chacón announced his resignation Wednesday evening after an investigation by a local news organization discovered the plane President Laura Chinchilla used to fly to Peru over the weekend was owned by a man with suspected ties to drug traffickers.
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla invited Peru's Ollanta Humala to attend one of the next presidential summits of the Central American Integration System.
Less than 36 hours after his name and mugshot appeared on a most-wanted list issued by Costa Rican investigators, Charles Espina was arrested in San José on outstanding charges of sexual abuse of a minor.
“Costa Rica prefers to have the canal project built on Mars or Venus,… but never in Nicaragua,” Nicaragua's representative to the world court said on Monday.
