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U.S. man accused of soliciting a minor for sex in Costa Rica says he is being extorted

Reza Ray Ehsan, a 57-year-old family physician from Los Angeles, California, is being charged in Costa Rica for soliciting sex from a girl under 18 years of age.

Latin America hands climate bill to rich world at summit

In the past half-century, Latin America and the Caribbean are estimated to have caused less than five percent of carbon dioxide emissions, but they have suffered more than most from extreme weather disasters.

US, Cuba talk on migration amid migrant crisis in Central America

The talks, which resulted in no new accord, Cuban officials said, come in the midst of the Cuban migrants crisis in Central America.

Google opens online window on toll of climate change

SAN FRANCISCO, California -- As world leaders gathered in Paris on Monday in the hope to stopping catastrophic climate change, Google Maps provided online views of remote locations where wildlife is struggling for survival.

Costa Rica honored at Paris climate talks with message on Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower sported a quintessential Tico phrase on Monday night, and nodded to the country's green energy success.

Costa Rica backs away from 2021 carbon neutrality goal

Costa Rica committed to a goal of zero net emissions by 2085 in its proposal for the Paris climate talks — 64 years later than the 2021 carbon neutrality goal set by the Oscar Arias administration in 2010.

Costa Rican surfer disappears off Pacific coast

Red Cross authorities say that a local surfer went missing off the coast of Caldera on the central Pacific coast Friday afternoon and has not been found.

Colombia’s ‘discriminatory’ military draft under discussion as peace deal comes closer

Not showing up for a Colombian military exam automatically gives one a remiso status – a deserter. With a FARC peace deal imminent, that could change.

16 killed in Guatemala prison fight, official says

More than 6,000 people are murdered a year in Guatemala, mainly at the hands of gangs engaged in contract killings, extortion and drug trafficking.

Judge orders hearing for detained Syrians in Honduras

Officials with Honduras' immigration department questioned the migrants and concluded that they are, in fact, fleeing from their country's war and are not Islamist extremists.

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