When one of Tamarindo’s most beloved community members died from injuries sustained in a home invasion, townspeople demanded immediate justice. Six months later they’re still looking for answers.
The single largest area of improvement for Costa Rica in the new report was in access to credit. Costa Rica rocketed to 7th in the world in the 2016 report compared to 90th in 2015.
Heavy thunderstorms and flash floods washed away cars and flooded homes across the Costa Rican capital of San José, with the neighborhoods of Los Yoses, San Pedro, Montes de Oca and Desamparados among the hardest hit by the rains.
Costa Rica authorities conducted 29 raids Tuesday in multiple locations throughout the Central Valley targeting a large organized criminal network directed from La Reforma Prison, outside the Costa Rican capital.
In addition to economic concerns, a new plan addresses Afro-descendent culture and access to justice. Among that plan’s call to action are policies to improve access to employment opportunities and public services, and programs to educate children about racial stereotypes.
The U.N. conference was held in Costa Rica and brought together policymakers from across Central America to discuss sustainable ways to keep coffee rust, or roya, at bay.
Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, is the daughter of a Venezuelan dictator and a CIA spy linked to an attempted Castro hit, the JFK assassination and Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. And then the story gets really strange.
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits. So, it seems, do crocodiles.
According to a new study published this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology, crocodiles sleep...
A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed at least 215 people in South Asia Monday, including 12 Afghan girls crushed in a stampede as they fled their collapsing school.
