Nobel Peace Prize winning former President Oscar Arias said that a military response to a suspected chemical attack last week would cost hundreds of thousands of "innocent" lives.
The mission's preliminary findings criticized the martial behavior of law enforcement towards indigenous peoples and the need to pass pending legislation for autonomous communities.
Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Police arrest two people suspected of defrauding at least nine patients by handing out fake diagnoses and homeopathic prescriptions.
The Costa Rican Judicial Investigation Police said they made data requests to Facebook as part of investigations into identity theft, threats and soliciting sex from a minor, among other crimes.
Photographer Luna Lin's exhibition in downtown San José explores the nature of travel. The exhibition opened last week at Libros Duluoz San José and will be on display through Sept. 18.
Costa Rica's Drug Control Police seized over $200,000 worth of ecstasy Wednesday in an investigation into a drug ring that used the national postal service to send and receive drugs from Europe and Nicaragua.
Two months after Costa Rican conservationist Jairo Mora was murdered, police swept up suspected members of a criminal gang of turtle poachers and charged them with murder. But local environmental groups are pushing for more answers.
