"We continue to be troubled by the reports coming out of Qatar related to the World Cup and migrant worker conditions," credit card giant Visa said in a statement.
The heads of the Guatemalan Central Bank and social security administration were arrested Wednesday on corruption charges, prosecutors said. The case comes on top of a separate scandal over a customs bribery ring, which forced former Vice President Roxana Baldetti to resign earlier this month.
Complaints against the facility included inappropriate use of tranquilizers and residents being tied down to beds or wheelchairs with improvised restraints.
"The time has come for our country to ... take this step, void of prejudice and strictly abiding by reality and good practices," Costa Rica's major Spanish-language daily, La Nación, writes in a Wednesday editorial supporting the legalization of medical marijuana.
Now that the afternoons are getting soggy again, we thought we’d revisit this video homage to “the green season,” a time of breathtaking clouds, verdant renewal and resourceful attempts to keep dry.
Uruguay has created a commission to probe human rights violations perpetrated from 1968 to 1985 as the government cracked down brutally on a leftist rebellion.
Costa Rica’s main port in Limón has been unable to bring two Chinese-donated X-ray scanners fully online six years after they were donated. The scanners lack Internet and electrical connections and can't be operated in the rain.
“Over View” is a touring exhibit that features five Costa Rican videographers. This is good for the home team, and it’s exciting to see creative Costa Ricans featured prominently, but the exhibit’s real achievement is its diversity.
Infinito Gold, the Calgary-based firm still fighting over its defunct open-pit gold mine project in Costa Rica, is one of 588 junior resource firms with negative working capital ($127 million) listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange (TSXV).
