Worst-case scenario for Costa Rica's group: Spain/Netherlands/Chile. Best-case scenario: Switzerland/Algeria/Croatia. We'll find out the draws on Friday morning.
More than six decades after President José Figueres Ferrer disbanded the armed forces in 1948, some Ticos want to see a more militarized approach to Costa Rica's problems with Nicaragua.
As the Christmas season approaches, my husband and I pray to God that the resources the Cuban government devotes to its armed forces and to the repression of the civilian population will instead be used to ameliorate the poverty and hunger of the Cuban people.
Wandering among neat rows of bushy green coffee shrubs, Fabián Echeverría surveys the plots through his tinted glasses. As genetic improvement coordinator for the Costa...
