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...
Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, died from lethal exposure to carbon monoxide fumes while vacationing with...
UN experts on Thursday identified for the first time 54 Nicaraguan officials, military personnel, police officers, magistrates, and deputies, with co-presidents Daniel Ortega and...
United States President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new tariff program today, dubbed "Liberation Day," which imposes a universal 10% tariff on all imports...
