Millions of Mexicans pay for everything from food to medicine with cash from relatives working in the U.S. Now, the money may allow them to get car loans in a country where a large swath of the population has no access to credit.
Extreme flooding caused by El Niño washed poisonous snakes downriver in northern Argentina, forcing authorities to close beaches to summer holidaymakers.
When Cyrus Sepehr was thrown into a preventive prison in Costa Rica under suspicion of fraud, he could still walk. But in just four months he's been relegated to a wheel chair, and the left side of his body is now paralyzed.
This month's "Musings from an Afro-Costa Rican" explores borders and markers between cultures, especially Costa Rica's last remaining Cruz de Caravaca.
A new trial for seven men accused of the brutal 2013 killing of Costa Rica sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora will take place from from Jan. 25 to March 25, a criminal court in the Caribbean port city of Limón announced Friday.
Claudio Pinto, 56, studied electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has forged a career as a successful entrepreneur, but in...
