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Panama Candidate Mulino Vows to Close Darién Jungle to Migrants

Presidential candidate José Raúl Mulino, the protégé of former President Ricardo Martinelli who leads the polls for the May 5 elections in Panama, promised...

Panamanian Elections: Mulino Leads, but Voters Believe Martinelli Will Hold Power

A recent poll conducted by the firm Doxa for the Panamanian Institute of Civic Studies and the radio station ArCa Media En Directo has...

Google Launches Operations Base in El Salvador to Boost Modernization

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, inaugurated this Monday the new offices of the American giant Google in that Central American country, which...

Honduras’s Abortion Ban on Trial: Indigenous Woman Seeks Justice at UN

An Indigenous woman has reported her country, Honduras, to the UN Human Rights Committee for denying her an abortion after she was raped, rights...

Central America’s Lifeline: Record Family Remittances

The money sent by Central American immigrants in the United States to their families has risen to record levels and represents a quarter of...

Indigenous Survivors Recount Horrors at Guatemala Genocide Trial

Indigenous survivors of Guatemala's civil war recounted the horrors of massacres allegedly committed by the military at the genocide trial of an elderly retired...
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Costa Rica Faces Water Supply Challenges Amid Severe Drought

In a press conference the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA), the government entity responsible for water supply in the country, announced...

Costa Rican Hotels Shine in Travel+Leisure’s Best 100 List

According to Travel+Leisure’s most recent publication, the Four Seasons Resort Peninsula Papagayo and Silvestre Nosara Hotel & Residences, located in Guanacaste, are among the...

Costa Rican Colon Surges Against US Dollar: Causes and Implications

A question many of us are asking right now is: How is the colon appreciating so rapidly vs the dollar? Since June, 2022, the...