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Hondurans Take Aim at Private Military Firm

TEGUCIGALPA – Two Honduran men say they took jobs with a U.S. company to go to Iraq as security guards, but once there the...

Comandante Cero: Don’t Count Me Out

MANAGUA – Despite being dismissed by pollsters and pundits, legendary guerrilla leader and presidential candidate Edén “Comandante Cero”Pastora claims it’s too soon to count...

Tico Abandons Lebanon During Israeli Bombing

Costa Rican lawyer Allan Makhlouf traveled from San José to Beirut, Lebanon, July 12, arriving at RaficHaririInternationalAirport just a few hours before Israeli bombs...

Roadside Deaths On the Rise

During the first seven months of this year, 518 Costa Ricans were hit and killed by cars on the country’s roads, marking 63 more...

Costa Rica in Top 5 Safest Destinations for Women

Costa Rica was the third mention on a list of the safest destinations worldwide for women travelers compiled for the U.S. daily USA Today. “Much...

Database to Improve Tracking of Sex Crimes

It’s no secret Costa Rica is both a source and destination for the trafficking of persons for sexual exploitation, and children are among those...

Normal Year so Far for Earthquake Activity

Though the 344 earthquakes that shook Costa Rica during the month of July might sound like a lot of ground shaking for one month,...

Colombian’s Residency Probed

Héctor Orlando Martínez, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), arrested in the Pacific port town of Puntarenas last week and...

Indigenous People Suffer Lack of Basic Needs

Housing Minister Fernando Zumbado Wednesday called for improvements to living conditions for Costa Rica’s indigenous people, 59% of whom survive with at least three...

Arias Proposes New Location for Offices

After much controversy over proposals to move Casa Presidencial, President Oscar Arias has decided to relocate the presidential offices from the southeastern San José...

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