WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers' racial biases.
As the Colombian government and FARC rebels close in on a landmark peace deal, anti-personnel mines are one of the biggest problems facing the South American country in its post-conflict transition.
A migration official told AFP that Ethan Couch, known as the "affluenza" teen, and his mother will likely be sent back to Texas this week, but no date has been set.
After more than a month at loggerheads over what to do with Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica en route to the U.S., Central American countries finally reached an agreement to allow them safe passage.
In 2015 Costa Rica was the site of major drug busts, a first-of-its-kind sex tourism case and the rise of a serial killer. Here are the year's five biggest crime stories.
The protagonists in this year's political crises in Brazil are off for the holidays, leaving questions about the fate of President Dilma Rousseff and others embroiled in impeachment and corruption scandals.
