Lafitte Fernández claims that in the 1980s, the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan went into league with the largest drug traffickers of the era to ship copious quantities of cocaine through Costa Rica and El Salvador to the United States to help support the Contras.
The Seattle chain, which in city after city has prompted cafes to close or remake themselves to survive, recently said that it plans to open 50 stores in Colombia in the next few years.
The celebration of our 192nd year of independence serves as an opportunity to reflect upon some of the challenges that we face as a people that could potentially threaten this hard-fought social and political democracy. A reprint of a 2012 Tico Times op-ed piece that's still relevant.
After the coup in Egypt in July, a Wall Street Journal editorial argued that "Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile's Augusto Pinochet."
Costa Rica dominates, scoring 2 goals in 10 minutes in an intense match in San José's National Stadium that ended with a decisive 3-1 victory for the first-place Ticos.
Recent criticism leveled at Chile by the U.N. for the country’s treatment of its indigenous minority prompts a human rights historian to question Britain’s current support for Chile’s military establishment.
As the U.S. prepares to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the march on Washington, it is useful to recall its origins, ambitions and legacy and to remember which of the organizers' objectives have been fulfilled and which have not.
