A federal court sentenced an ex-Guatemalan Army office to 10 years in prison Monday, after it was discovered that while obtaining U.S. citizenship he hid his involvement in the massacre of a Guatemalan village.
"That is gossip, and it comes as a result of everyone watching us. They have not communicated anything to me, I will not join with them, I am not thinking about joining with them, so I appreciate it that you clarify that these are only rumors," Solís said Monday.
Six months after President Laura Chinchilla’s government proposed ₡20 billion — roughly $40 million — in aid to Costa Rica’s struggling coffee farmers, the Comptroller General’s Office approved the project, according to a statement last Friday.
After months of saber rattling, Infinito Gold, Ltd. announced Monday that it had filed for a Request for Arbitration with a World Bank court in its protracted dispute with the government of Costa Rica over the canceled Las Crucitas gold mining concession.
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Authorities have dug up 12 bodies in two clandestine graves in Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state, a region plagued by drug violence, authorities said Monday.
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega wants to open up a dialogue with Laura Chinchilla's successor as president of Costa Rica, according to Nicaraguan analysts in a report by the news agency EFE.
“This is so crazy!” exclaimed one concertgoer, a couple of hours after the sun had set. It was Saturday evening, the Life in Color concert was in full swing, and truly, it was a little crazy: Ten thousand people, mostly young and Tico, writhed and gyrated in a giant mass.
You know how it is, because it's a universal if regrettable experience, like stepping on a cowpat or getting caught without an umbrella. This time it was spilling curry on my all-time favorite dress shirt, which then had to be put out of its pain because people think you're weird if you go around wearing curry on your shirt.
North Korea paid a fine Saturday for trying to ship undeclared Cuban arms through the Panama Canal, possibly in violation of UN sanctions, authorities said.
