The woman whose voice I was listening to that night was Henrietta Boggs, first wife of José “Pepe” Figueres, the woman who was at his side during his first forays into politics and his exile. She spent part of the revolution scrambling with her young children through the Cerro de la Muerte, or “Hill of Death,” carrying her youngest in her arms over the high, cold, rough terrain to escape enemy fire. Today, at 97, as the subject of a new documentary and a presenter at TEDx Pura Vida, it seems that Boggs is finally ready for her closeup.
FARC leaders negotiating in Havana have vowed to enter politics if a peace deal is signed. But as many as 20 percent of their subordinates could join criminal gangs and continue lucrative cocaine and illegal gold mining operations, according to the Washington Office on Latin America.
A Guatemalan court has sentenced two former soldiers to 120 and 240 years of prison for subjecting at least 15 indigenous women to sexual slavery and other crimes during the country's civil war.
Keylor Navas again did his best to try to save Real Madrid's lackadaisical defense in a key La Liga showdown against rival Atlético Madrid on Saturday.
In the San Pedro region of Paraguay, a little village called Nueva Germania was founded as an “Aryan utopia” by the sister of famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. But do villagers today still connect to those original ideals?
U.S. health authorities Friday described the cases of nine pregnant women who contracted the Zika virus while traveling, two of whom chose abortion and one who gave birth to a baby with microcephaly.
Mexican authorities have arrested a local police chief in connection with the murder of a journalist in the southern state of Oaxaca, among the latest reporters killed in the country.
