My impression of Gary Webb was that, in addition to being a novice to tumultuous Central American politics, he was dead set on his thesis that the Contras originated the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States.
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.
The humanitarian organization Cristosal denounced on Saturday that Salvadoran lawyer Ruth López, head of its anti-corruption unit and considered a "prisoner of conscience" by...
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) resumes negotiations Monday in search of rules to regulate deep-sea mining, amid controversy over Donald Trump's decision to unilaterally...
Costa Rica is standing out as a regional leader in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). About 50% of...
Mexican airline Viva Aerobus is launching a new international route linking Monterrey, Nuevo León, with San José, Costa Rica, starting October 30, 2025. This...
