In its latest progress report on Afghanistan to the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon warned that the 2013 poppy harvest was expected to be "considerably" bigger than the 2012 yield as a result of warmer temperatures early in the season, the drawdown of NATO troops and the high price of poppies.
In a Tico Times interview, Solís said that if elected, he'd fight government corruption in his first 90 days in office and clean up the Public Works and Transport Ministry. His story is "a very Costa Rican" one," he said, but "it will not be [for others] if we keep going down this road."
The camp, which had a heliport, is the second heavily-armed site discovered in the mountains of Costa Rica in the last month, and could be linked to arms and drug traffickers.
In a unanimous decision on Friday, the municipality of Matina, Limón, on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, passed an ordinance banning the growth of genetically...
Acting on intelligence by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Costa Rican authorities seized 35 illegal weapons, including AR-15's, and 492 kilograms of cocaine destined for Mexico on Thursday evening.
