Did El Chapo order $100 million hit on Trump?
Did notorious cartel boss Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera put out a contract on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump? On Monday, state-funded media outlet TeleSur shared a rumor that El…
Colombia high court orders church to pay damages for priestly sex abuse
The Catholic Church has lost its first civil case in Colombia for priestly sex abuse with a ruling by the Supreme Court establishing that the institution cannot separate itself from…
Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s top problem is corruption
When Peruvian-born Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa told me in a public interview in front of 300 newspaper editors last weekend that "corruption is the biggest threat to Latin…
It’s World Octopus Day! Here Are eight awesome octopodes
Hooray—it’s world octopus day. Today we celebrate the excellent eight-legged creatures that grace our oceans, and occasionally even venture out of the water. (Even Aristotle knew: “the only cephalopod to…
U.S. charges Honduran sports mogul with laundering drug money
U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday charged Honduran sports mogul and former Cabinet minister Yankel Rosenthal with laundering money obtained from drug trafficking.…
Paul Watson: “In Costa Rica, all sharks have been placed on death row”
Watson took to Facebook on Tuesday to respond to a story published by ICR News, and condemn the government of Costa Rica as a “disgrace to the international conservation…
Government begins trying to pay down $1.4 billion dollar debt to “La Caja”
Costa Rican president, Luis Guillermo Solis announced that the government has made a payment of ¢25 billion, or about US $46.7 million, towards its debt of some US $1.4 billion…
Law enforcement officers will soon be able to enforce traffic laws, issue tickets
Currently, the power to enforce traffic laws and issue traffic citations rests only with officers of the Transit Police (Policia de Transito).…
