Is this classic Costa Rican children’s book racist?
A fond account of the adventures of a black youngster, or a racist caricature of an entire culture?That's the question at the heart of a debate raging in Costa Rica…
FIFA plea deals could implicate Sepp Blatter
The wave of evidence implicating high-level FIFA executives in a sweeping corruption scandal has mounted quickly following the surprise announcement earlier this week that football's world governing body president, Sepp…
Mexico has to vote this weekend amid candidate killings and ballot burnings
MEXICO CITY — One candidate for congress was at home near the capital when a group of gunmen stormed in and shot him dead at point blank range.A mayoral hopeful…
FIFA: Blazer details bribe taking; Warner says he “fears for his life”
U.S. court records unsealed Wednesday revealed that Charles Blazer, a former FIFA executive committee member admitted to accepting bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cups…
Route 27 closed after major landslide; engineers had warned of danger
Route 27, which connects the western suburbs of San Jose to the Pacific port of Caldera, remained closed Thursday morning after a major landslide Wednesday afternoon. The highway is…
$100 million “Escazu Village” project breaks ground
A more than $100 million USD development project has broken ground in Trejos Montealegre in the western San Jose suburb of Escazu.…
Police seize $1 million in cash from trailer carrying toilet paper
Agents of Costa Rica’s Drug Control Police (PCD) at the Peñas Blancas border crossing with Nicaragua seized $1 million in cash from a Guatemalan trucker driver carrying a load of…
Four-year-old boy believed to have shot, killed two-year-old sister in Limón
A four-year-old boy is believed to have shot and killed his two-year-old sister while playing with a .22-caliber rifle in Palestina de Matina in Costa Rica’s Limón province Wednesday morning.…
