No menu items!

COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER

HomeLatin America

Latin America

Panama Papers Lawyers Face 12-Year Prison Sentence

The Panamanian prosecutor's office asked on Wednesday for 12 years in prison, the maximum penalty for money laundering, for Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca,...

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...
Costa Rica Travel Insurance
Costa Rica Fishing Tourament
Costa Rica Coffee Maker
Costa Rica Travel Insurance

Constitutional Court Upholds Cocos Island National Park Expansion

The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC-MINAE) annouced the Constitutional Court rejected the action filed by...

Expat Living: Our Many Houses in Costa Rica

As I take a break from throwing all of my family’s worldly belongings into totes with duct tape labels, I start to reflect on...

Chaves Suggests “Lobbying” Behind Norway’s Refusal to Help

President Rodrigo Chaves insinuated that Norway was influenced by "lobbying" in rejecting Costa Rica's request for cooperation to calculate the value of alleged natural...