Property owners in Costa Rica who rent accommodations through popular platforms like Airbnb or Booking.com will soon face a new tax obligation. The General...

Crime

Former Costa Rican Minister Indicted in US on Drug Trafficking Charges

Tico Times -

Celso Manuel Gamboa Sánchez, once a top Costa Rican security minister and judge, now sits in a maximum-security prison cell awaiting possible extradition to...

Environment and Wildlife

Good Timing Leads to Rare Snake Encounter in Costa Rica

Vincent Losasso -

When it comes to viewing wildlife in person, timing is everything. There’s a great big world out there and the chances of you being...

Guatemala

Vigilante Justice in Quake-Hit Guatemala Town Claims Five Lives

Tico Times -

In a Guatemalan town reeling from recent earthquakes, residents took matters into their own hands on Thursday night, lynching five men they accused of...

Costa Rica

Costa Rica Airport Pioneers Central America’s First Child Exploitation Prevention Protocol

Tico Times -

Juan Santamaría International Airport will become the first in Central America to implement a specialized protocol to prevent, detect, and respond to cases of...

Honduras

Honduran teen deported by US feels like foreigner in native country

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Emerson Colindres had just finished high school when he was sent back to Honduras by the United States, a country that he had called...

Honduras

Honduras Mayor Murdered in Motel Ambush Stirs Outrage

Tico Times -

Francisco Martínez Domínguez, the mayor of San Isidro, a small municipality in Honduras, was brutally killed in Siguatepeque, about 90 km north of Tegucigalpa....

Crime

Illegal Airstrip Allegedly Built in Costa Rica’s Gandoca-Manzanillo Refuge

Tico Times -

The Limón branch of the Environmental Prosecutor's Office is investigating the alleged construction of an airstrip inside the Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, as well...