As police from across the Americas met for AMERIPOL's annual conference in Escazú, a United Nations report said that 1 million people lost their lives to violence linked to organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean during the last decade.
Experts suspect red tide, but even that is an uncertainty. What is known is that the region's environmental agencies are not prepared to deal with the mass deaths of endangered sea turtles.
Despite a growing economy, strong exports and a better quality of life for Ticos, experts warn about the growing pains associated with a widening inequality gap in Costa Rica.
Five years after the passage of the controversial free trade agreement, a World Bank report says that Costa Rica benefits more from CAFTA than any of its Central American neighbors.
A long-lasting and valuable project sprang out of a Guatemala City dump and is still going strong 20 years later, thanks to a dedicated photojournalist and the hundreds of kids and volunteers who passed through the program.
