Despite being the second poorest country in the Americas after Haiti, Nicaragua is not counted among other Central American countries sending thousands of immigrants to the U.S. Instead of traveling north, Nicaraguans have been going south to Costa Rica in search of economic opportunity.
The 21st century will present gloomy challenges for Costa Rica and the rest of Latin America, such as the collapse of wildlife habitats, animal extinction, water scarcity and the spread of disease in an already vulnerable population.
Lafitte Fernández claims that in the 1980s, the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan went into league with the largest drug traffickers of the era to ship copious quantities of cocaine through Costa Rica and El Salvador to the United States to help support the Contras.
How a high school-educated drug smuggler built a fleet of submarines – in the middle of the jungle – to ferry cocaine to the United States. It was a system straight from the mind of Lex Luthor.
Advertisements for insurance companies are popping up all over Costa Rica. Company billboards along San José streets promise security and inexpensive coverage plans, television...
The constitutional reform proposed by President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua strikes at the heart of the state by creating the position of "co-president" for...
Pope Francis has officially announced that Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized during the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year 2025, specifically at the Jubilee of...
According to the Global Climate Action Survey 2024, conducted by Gensler, Costa Rica is among the countries most severely impacted by extreme weather events...
If you live in a predominantly Tico barrio, you are likely familiar with vendedores ambulantes. These are the door-to-door salespeople who pass through selling...
