TEL AVIV, Israel – Costa Rica abolished its army in 1948, the same year Israel declared independence. Sixty-six years later, Costa Rica remains one of the few countries without a standing military, while Israel – whose invasion of Gaza this summer following repeated Hamas rocket attacks drew angry reactions from across Latin America – ranks as one of the world’s most militarized societies.
Last year’s event might already have qualified as huge, but this Oktoberfest will be even bigger: The event is moving from the Avenida Escazú shopping area to the Pedregal Event Center in Belén, one of the largest venues in Costa Rica.
IGUALA, Mexico – Mexican federal forces disarmed a southern city's entire police corps and took over security Monday after officers were accused of colluding with a gang in violence that left 43 students missing.
Looking at this photo, we see a unique and harmonious interaction between two animals: a yellow-headed caracara and a Baird’s tapir. The caracara is...
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís met with U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs John Feeley Monday morning as part of a three-nation trip by the State Department official. Feeley said his visit was to touch base with the Costa Rican president and shore up relations between the allies.
On Sunday, Oct. 5, 1986, a young Sandinista soldier named José Fernando Canales Alemán sighted a Fairchild C-123K cargo plane in Nicaraguan airspace near the Costa Rican border. He fired a Russian-made shoulder mounted SAM-7 surface-to-air missile and brought down the plane. One man survived. His name was Eugene Hasenfus, and his subsequent capture by Sandinista forces led to the unraveling of a complex web now called “The Iran-Contra Affair.”
PROPERTY FEATURES: Custom, unique house in Escazú. Newly refurbished and painted. Within 1 mile of U.S. Embassy Residence and numerous shopping centers. Loft TV/music room. Beautiful living room with floor to ceiling windows, fireplace, and 3-story ceiling. 3 split levels.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party, established a convincing lead in the first round of the country's presidential election Sunday — but it was not enough to elect her outright.
IGUALA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA, Mexico – More bodies were pulled out of a mass grave in southern Mexico Sunday as authorities worked to determine if 43 students who vanished after a police shooting were among the dead.
“Pastor” is a very moving idea, and revisiting the bloody history of El Salvador is a worthy enterprise. Unfortunately, the production is an endless series of leaden dialogues in nondescript locales.
