Security minister calls for immediate action against organized crime as death toll mounts
Security minister Gustavo Mata on Tuesday called for immediate action and a change in strategy to combat organized crime in Costa Rica, amidst a growing wave of homicides involving organized…
Regulator opens bidding on project to bring broadband Internet to Caribbean communities
Costa Rica telecoms regulator, SUTEL, through the National Telecommunications Fund (FONATEL), has opened to bidding a project to bring high speed, fixed-line Internet service to several areas of the country’s…
Search halted for missing in Guatemala landslide that killed 280
Guatemalan authorities on Tuesday announced the suspension of the search for people missing in an Oct. 1 landslide that killed at least 280 people in a town near this capital.…
Salvadorans flee danger, but find more of it in Mexico
The deadly mix of grinding poverty, extreme violence, and corruption in Central America's northern triangle means desperate people continue to do desperate things to escape.…
Drug lord mask topping holloween sales
Mexican authorities are still looking for escaped drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, but this Halloween, the hunt for the leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel could be harder as many…
Costa Rica’s capital city is becoming a war zone (VIDEO)
San Jose, it seems, is turning into a warzone, and authorities seem unable to do much about it, by their own admission.…
Costa Rica’s largest shopping mall to open November 11th, creating thousands of new jobs
The opening of the new shopping mall will generate some 3,500 direct jobs and 4,000 indirect jobs between now and early 2016, according to Lady Lee, the Honduran company which…
Two men arrested with more than 300 sea turtle eggs in Guanacaste
Coast Guard officials on a night patrol of the Junquillal beach in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, arrested two men Friday night who where in possession of 315 protected sea turtle eggs.…
