FIFA’s Blatter defiant about US corruption probe
Newly re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter has tried to distance himself from FIFA’s corruption scandal involving $150 million in bribes.Blatter said Saturday in Zurich that he was not the “high-ranking…
U.S. tourist drowns offshore of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast
A tourist from the United States, identified as James Warner, drowned offshore of Puntarenas on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast over the weekend.…
Meet Panama City’s tweeting potholes (seriously)
Telemetro Reporta, a television news program in Panama City, Panama, has devised a unique – and seemingly effective way of getting the city’s public works department to start fixing the…
British banks to review possible corrupt FIFA payments
Two British banks say they have launched internal reviews into how allegedly corrupt payments were funneled through their institutions as part of the years-long world football bribery scheme.…
Costa Rica football federation received bribe from U.S. company for Eduardo Li: Prosecutors
According to a 161-page indictment by prosecutors in the United States, the Costa Rican Football Federation (Fedefútbol) received a bribe on behalf of its president, Eduardo Li, from a U.S.…
Latin America hails FIFA indictments that hit long-serving soccer bosses
A sprawling U.S. criminal probe into the "World Cup of fraud" within global soccer touched hard on Latin America and the Caribbean and made clear that many disgusted fans were…
Entire San Jose neighborhood of 5,000 people could lose their homes over one customer’s unpaid water bill
Nearly 1,500 homes in the Metropolis II neighborhood of Pavas in San Jose could be seized and auctioned off, leaving 5,000 people without a place to call home, due to…
Prosecutors will try yet again to get former lawmaker, Jorge Angulo to face corruption charges
Costa Rica’s Attorney General’s office is once again attempting to get former PLN lawmaker Jorge Angulo into a courtroom to face corruption charges in a motion filed earlier this month.…
