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Venezuela, Colombia woes drag down Panama’s free trade zone

Panama's free trade zone -- the biggest in Latin America -- is in crisis in large part because of economic woes sapping major export customers Venezuela and Colombia, Commerce Minister Augusto Arosemena said Wednesday.

FIFA enacts reforms, chooses new president

No candidate got the required two-thirds majority in the first round of voting to become president, FIFA members did adopt reforms Friday designed to limit the authority of top leaders and end the patronage and waste that prevailed during Sepp Blatter's 18-year term.

Intel’s Vince Guglielmetti wants more Costa Rican engineers

What started as a manufacturing plant now handles finance, HR, engineering and more for the silicon giant. The company's biggest challenge now is finding enough Costa Rican talent in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math to continue to grow.

Beleaguered SeaWorld admits workers spied on animal-rights activists

PETA said last year that SeaWorld San Diego worker Paul McComb had been a double agent inside the organization and "seemed to be trying to incite confrontational and illegal actions against SeaWorld and distract from SeaWorld's own wrongdoing and smear people that may reflect poorly on our cause." SeaWorld executives said Thursday that McComb, who was suspended during the uproar last summer, is still an employee at the company.

Mexico’s Vicente Fox so mad at Trump he drops the F-bomb

MEXICO CITY – Donald Trump's rhetoric about Mexico got a tongue-lashing Thursday, with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden calling it "dangerous" and a former Mexican president dropping the F-bomb against his border wall plan.

Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters

When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 12 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.

China overtakes West in development funding to Latin America

As U.S. and international development banks cut back on lending to Latin America, China is stepping in.

Community park reflects big goals for urban planning in Curridabat

A virtually unused space near the train tracks in Freses, Curridabat, has become a community-designed space for chatting, gardening, listening to live music... and eating fish and chips.

Zika crisis to get ‘worse before it gets better,’ WHO says

World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said part of the challenge in fighting the virus is that it is so "mysterious." Even the link to microcephaly remains not fully proven.

Internet by light promises to leave Wi-Fi eating dust

Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp -- that is the promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with revolutionary wireless technology.

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