At the urging of her music teacher, María Jose Castro Alfaro participated in the Jugend musiziert, a national competition for young musicians. On Jan. 31, Castro competed in the local round of competition, in the city of Hamburg.
Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) raided three homes and an office in Escazú Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into a million-dollar fraud and money laundering scheme that targeted people living in the United States.
A beaked whale was found dead on the shores of Playa Matina on Tuesday, Noticias Repretel reported. The siting is only the fourth beaked whale body ever found in Costa Rica, and the first on the Caribbean side.
The Salvadoran castaway who says he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific returned home Tuesday to his homeland. He landed in El Salvador at 8:30 p.m. local time.
Contraband might seem like a good deal, but law enforcement officials argue that the illicit trade aids money launderers, weakens an already strained tax collection system and could even pose a health hazard.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia – The interception in Colombia of a plane carrying almost half a metric ton of coca paste bound for Mexico is a sign Mexican drug cartels are switching from importers to manufacturers, according to Colombian police.
GUATEMALA CITY – In January, the U.S. government suspended military aid to Guatemala after the Central American country failed to deliver on $154.5 million in reparations to survivors of a massacre over a hydroelectric dam built in the 1980s.
