STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, who won an Oscar for his 2012 documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," died in Stockholm on Tuesday, the TT news agency reported. He was 36.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Mexico's government decided Tuesday to increase military control over security in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas and purge corrupt police to reverse a surge in drug cartel violence.
Last week, we reported on a curious story of three Costa Rican fishermen who were nabbed with almost two tons of cocaine near the southern Pacific port city of Golfito. Then-Public Security Minister Mario Zamora called the arrest "the most important [drug] seizure in years."
LONDON – A shipwreck off the coast of Haiti may be the remains of the Santa María, Christopher Columbus' flagship from his first voyage to the Americas, according to reports on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is taking steps to open a sales office in China to work with local advertisers, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that would put the social network's employees in the country for the first time, even as its service remains censored there.
Starting Nov. 1, Jet Blue will open a weekly nonstop flight from Boston's Logan International Airport to Costa Rica's Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport in Liberia, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, the company announced Thursday.
In response to the recent article, "Code Pink peace activists warn of increasing militarization in Costa Rica," the Public Affairs Officer for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) would like Tico Times readers to know the facts about the Institute and its operation.
MEXICO CITY – A most-wanted founder of Mexico's ultra-violent Zetas drug cartel has been killed in a clash with the military that involved grenades and assault rifles, authorities said Monday.
