MEXICO CITY – Dark days of violence have returned to Mexico's northeastern state of Tamaulipas, prompting authorities to deploy more soldiers after nearly 80 people died in drug cartel gunfights in one month.
On Wednesday, 24 hours after the Costa Rican Coast Guard nabbed two fishing boats with 1.9 tons of cocaine onboard in Golfito, a southern Pacific port city, Judge Jeffrey Mora Sánchez ordered the release of three Costa Rican men who were detained in the operation.
The 2014 ISA World StandUp Paddle and Paddleboard Championship (WSUPPC) is underway in Nicaragua, where for the first time ever, Costa Rican athletes are...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A Salvadoran judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former President Francisco Flores, who may have fled the country after being accused of misappropriating millions of dollars donated by Taiwan.
President Laura Chinchilla leaves office Thursday as the least popular leader in Latin America for the second year in a row. Check out our timeline of the scandals and resignations that dealt a black eye to Chinchilla’s government.
A comprehensive Tico Times analysis of the environmental successes and failures by the outgoing National Liberation Party administration of Laura Chinchilla. The first part in a two part series about the future of the environment in Costa Rica.
Though perhaps not as entertaining as the blunders that may come to define the Chinchilla years, here is a list of her administration's actions that Doña Laura wants to promote.
For an administration that was largely weighed down by scandal and perceived mismanagement, public security has ended up as President Laura Chinchilla’s most likely legacy for Costa Rica.
Negotiations that took place last week between three political parties for control of the Legislative Assembly’s directorate will play an important role in legislating by consensus. And that gives lawmakers considerable political capital, analysts say.
Spanish police seized 2.5 tons of cocaine hidden among pineapples on a ship from Costa Rica in one of the biggest ever seizures of the drug, they said Wednesday.
