On Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights urged El Salvador to take "urgent measures" to protect the chronically ill woman, who sought an abortion that could save her life.

Costa Rica

Moving To and Working in Costa Rica: Latitudinal Adjustments

Tico Times - May 17, 2013

A couple from Ohio moves to the Costa Rican countryside and starts a tropical dream farm.

Colombia

Why Colombia is Questioning the Fruits of Its Costly Drug War

Tico Times - May 10, 2013

Sorry, Washington. If, after 30 years, Colombia can't win the war on drugs, no one can.

Arts and Culture

From Faith to Reason: The Intellectual Journey

Tico Times - April 10, 2013

Columnist Jack O’Brien ruminates on science and the Catholic Church

Chile

Investigating Chilean Pinochet Dictatorship and Pablo Neruda’s Death

Tico Times - April 8, 2013

Exhumation begins to determine the cause of the poet’s death in 1973.

Home and Garden

Growing Hardy Sweet UFOS Chiles in Your Tropical Garden

Tico Times - April 8, 2013

Ed Bernhardt recounts the history and wonder of sweet and hot peppers

Guatemala

Ex-soldier accuses Guatemala’s Pérez Molina of wartime massacres

Tico Times - April 5, 2013

Testifying during the trial of ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, a former soldier accuses Guatemala’s sitting president of participating in massacres of Mayan villagers.

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