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El Salvador Tourism Boom Puts Visitor Goal Ahead of Schedule

El Salvador’s tourism growth is moving faster than the country’s own official targets. After years of being seen internationally through the lens of violence...

Cuba’s Tourism Industry Is Collapsing in Real Time

Cuba’s tourism industry is facing one of its sharpest collapses in decades, with visitor numbers plunging, major hotel brands pulling back, airlines cutting service...

Panama Canal Water Project Faces Opposition March in Colón

Campesino communities from the Río Indio basin will march through Colón this morning in their latest protest against a reservoir the Panama Canal Authority...

El Salvador for First-Time Surfers: A Guide to Surf City and the Wild East

For decades, surfers chasing Central America's best waves flew straight past El Salvador on their way to Costa Rica. That's over. With year-round swells...

Panama Prison Riot Leaves Two Dead as Over 80 Inmates Recaptured

A riot broke out at the La Joyita penitentiary in Pacora on the evening of June 1 when authorities attempted to transfer or redistribute...

Panama Joins 10 Worst Countries for Workers Rights in ITUC Report

The International Trade Union Confederation placed the three Latin American nations in that group in its Global Rights Index released Monday. The list also...

Nicaragua Indigenous Leader Brooklyn Rivera Dies in State Custody

Nicaraguan Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera Bryan, one of the most recognized Miskito activists in the country and a former lawmaker, has died while in...

Nicaragua Confirms Brooklyn Rivera Critically Ill as U.S. Demands Release

The Nicaraguan government acknowledged Saturday that the health of jailed Indigenous opposition leader Brooklyn Rivera is in “critical condition.” Rivera, 73, was arrested by...

El Salvador Extends State of Exception for 51st Time

El Salvador's 51st extension of the state of exception took effect Sunday, May 31, and runs through June 29, keeping certain constitutional guarantees suspended...

El Salvador’s Surf Coast Is Making a Strong Case to Costa Rica Travelers

For many longtime Central America travelers, El Salvador once sat far down the list of places to visit for pleasure. In the early 1990s,...
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Guanacaste Faces One of Its Worst Droughts as Rain Hits Much of Costa Rica

Guanacaste is facing one of its worst drought situations in years, even as much of Costa Rica deals with heavy rain, saturated soils and...

Costa Rica Tax Revenue Keeps Falling as UNA Economists Urge Fiscal Reform

A public university research center has called a comprehensive fiscal reform "necessary and urgent," warning that Costa Rica's tax revenue has been sliding since...

Costa Rica Storm Cristina Leaves Five Missing Along Pacific Coast

Five people were missing off Costa Rica's Pacific coast on Tuesday after two small boats capsized in heavy surf whipped up by Tropical Storm...

El Salvador Tourism Boom Puts Visitor Goal Ahead of Schedule

El Salvador’s tourism growth is moving faster than the country’s own official targets. After years of being seen internationally through the lens of violence...