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Nicaragua Condemns U.S. Migrant Policy Under Trump as Crimes Against Humanity

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of committing "horrendous crimes" against migrants by deporting them, separating families, and having...

El Salvador Introduces Bitcoin Education in Public Schools

El Salvador’s Ministry of Education has launched a new initiative to incorporate Bitcoin education into the national curriculum for young students. The program, titled...

Families Traumatized After U.S. Deports Honduran Women and American Children

The families of two Honduran women deported by the administration of former President Donald Trump — along with three American children, one of whom...

New Panama Metro Tunnel Under the Canal Aims to Cut Commute Times

Panama has reached a major milestone in its ambitious Metro Line 3 project: the construction of the country's first metro tunnel beneath the Panama...

Holy Week Boat Accident in Panama Claims Two Lives, Search Continues

A tragic boating accident off the Pacific coast of Panama has left two people dead, one missing, and a community in mourning. On Friday,...

Panamanian Judiciary Moves to Prevent US Troops in Canal Zone

A citizens’ coalition on Wednesday asked Panama’s Supreme Court to declare “unconstitutional” a controversial agreement signed last week that allows the United States to...

US Deportations to El Salvador Unveil a Human Rights Crisis

The deportation of migrants detained in the United States to El Salvador and their imprisonment in a mega-prison for gang members is creating “a...

Trump and Bukele Reinforce Their Alliance Against Gangs

"We are very eager to help," Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele assured this Monday at the White House to a Donald Trump delighted to hear...
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Former Panama President Martinelli Avoids Jail, Arrives in Colombia Under Asylum

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli arrived in Colombia this Saturday under political asylum, after spending 15 months sheltered in the Nicaraguan embassy to avoid...

Costa Rica’s Elusive River Otter: Behavior, Scat Clues, and Rare Video Evidence

Today we meet the most aquatic member of Costa Rica’s weasel family, the neotropical river otter. The neotropical river otter (Lontra longicaudis) is known...

Why Costa Rica is Banning Fishing in the Gulf of Nicoya for May–July

A fishing ban in the Gulf of Nicoya, effective since May 1st and lasting until July 3rd, protects shrimp, corvina, snapper, and white mullet...