“Next Tuesday, we will begin the fourth and final year of this administration. Thank God.”
–President Abel Pacheco,
following a Cabinet
meeting in May.
“Let them keep pulling...
“He had no office, no functions, no programs. But he did have a salary.”
–First Vice-President Lineth Saborío
on her former colleague, Second Vice-President Luis Fishman,...
FLOODS ransacked both coasts, flattening banana plantations and villages in the Caribbean in January in one of the most disastrous floods to hit the...
HEALTH authorities struggled this year with strains on an already overburdened health system, two diseases (one age-old, the other yet to materialize here), and...
• A poll by the University of Costa Rica (UCR) concludes that National Liberation Party (PLN) presidential candidate Oscar Arias will not receive the...
FROM the alleged return of death squads, to rising gang activity, serious allegations of police misconduct and a record-high year for the slaying of...
DESPITE stiff opposition and sometimes-violent protests, the free-trade agreement between the United States, Central America and the Dominican Republic (CAFTA) was ratified this year...
GUATEMALA CITY (EFE) – The interior minister in this violence-plagued Central American nation has suggested use of judges whose identity remains secret as a...
