Costa Rican authorities on Wednesday launched a "Safe December" initiative that will increase police presence throughout the national territory this month. Under the directive of President Carlos…
Costa Rican authorities seized 771 kilos of cocaine in two operations carried out on Sunday along the Pacific and Caribbean coastlines, the government said Monday. The first…
Two National Police officers were detained this week after being accused of robbing foreigners, Costa Rica's Public Security Ministry confirmed Thursday. The incident occurred in Garabito, a…
The messaging service WhatsApp caught on in Costa Rica and elsewhere around the world as a way to keep up with friends and family. But local communities and…
The Costa Rica Prosecutor’s Office requested six months of preventive prison for four suspects from the U.S., Colombia and Costa Rica arrested during four raids around the San José…
Normally the central government would trumpet news of 300 new jobs in Costa Rica. Not so when Uber announced Tuesday morning that it plans to open a…
Any doubts about the presence of sophisticated organized criminal organizations in Costa Rica were dashed Wednesday morning. The Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) raided several properties across Costa…
Costa Rica’s National Police academy and the Center for Research and Promotion of Human Rights in Central America, CIPAC, launched a national campaign Thursday to raise awareness…
This is the best reason to sit through a traffic jam on San José's Paseo Colón. A Public Security Ministry helicopter medevaced a 7-year-old girl who suffered an apparent…
Update, Friday, 3:30 p.m. A story that started early Friday morning as a brazen attack on a police officer outside President Luis Guillermo Solís' home unraveled this afternoon…
