The San Carlos hotel that the security guard, Jorge Guevara, worked for also must pay the victim's family $650,000. Guevara shot and killed Johnston in June 2011, mistaking him for a thief.
The single-engine plane went down Saturday morning in Michigan, and the 56-year-old Tica died at the scene of the crash. The pilot remains in critical condition.
President Laura Chinchilla’s administration this week fired Costa Rican Fisheries Institute Vice President Álvaro Moreno. Is the agency’s president, Luis Dobles, next?
Erwin Sperisen, who holds both Swiss and Guatemalan nationalities, will be tried in Switzerland for allegedly carrying out extrajudicial executions while commanding Guatemala’s police forces.
