Inside Costa Rica » Ongoing Stories https://www.insidecostarica.com Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:35:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 Suspended CONCACAF chief and FIFA vice president, Alfredo Hawit, extradited to UShttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/13/20813/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/13/20813/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:00:59 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20813 Hawit, president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and a vice president of the football world governing body FIFA, was arrested on December 3 in Zurich on US corruption charges.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/13/20813/feed/ 0 Indigenous groups in Nicaragua complain of pressure to accept canalhttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/11/indigenous-groups-nicaragua-complain-pressure-accept-canal/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/11/indigenous-groups-nicaragua-complain-pressure-accept-canal/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:00:01 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20767 Indigenous authorities of the Rama-Kriol Territorial Government in Nicaragua complain they are under pressure to give the interoceanic canal project their approval.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/11/indigenous-groups-nicaragua-complain-pressure-accept-canal/feed/ 3 CONCACAF chief agrees to extradition to UShttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/06/concacaf-chief-agrees-extradition-us/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/06/concacaf-chief-agrees-extradition-us/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:00:33 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20707 Hawit, president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and a vice president of world governing body FIFA, was arrested on December 3 in Zurich.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2016/01/06/concacaf-chief-agrees-extradition-us/feed/ 0 Swiss deliver first evidence to US in FIFA casehttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/30/swiss-deliver-first-evidence-us-fifa-case/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/30/swiss-deliver-first-evidence-us-fifa-case/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:30:53 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20621 Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) on Wednesday handed over the first batch of evidence to U.S. authorities for its investigation into alleged bribery schemes for soccer marketing rights.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/30/swiss-deliver-first-evidence-us-fifa-case/feed/ 0 Sweeping new indictment against top FIFA officials unveiledhttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/04/sweeping-new-indictment-top-fifa-officials-unveiled/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/04/sweeping-new-indictment-top-fifa-officials-unveiled/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:00:59 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20309 U.S. Attorney announced Thursday a new, sweeping indictment against 16 officials of FIFA, including two vice presidents of the international soccer governing body's executive committee and officials from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama - on corruption charges.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/04/sweeping-new-indictment-top-fifa-officials-unveiled/feed/ 0 More FIFA officials, including acting CONCACAF president and bosses across Central and South America, charged in widening probehttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/03/fifa-officials-including-acting-concacaf-president-bosses-across-central-south-america-charged-widening-probe/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/03/fifa-officials-including-acting-concacaf-president-bosses-across-central-south-america-charged-widening-probe/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:00:13 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20299 Football bosses from across South and Central America were among 16 people charged by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday with multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights to tournaments and matches, a widening of a corruption probe into the sport.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/12/03/fifa-officials-including-acting-concacaf-president-bosses-across-central-south-america-charged-widening-probe/feed/ 0 $50 billion Chinese canal project in Nicaragua to be further delayedhttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/11/26/50-billion-chinese-canal-project-nicaragua-delayed/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/11/26/50-billion-chinese-canal-project-nicaragua-delayed/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2015 14:13:06 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20207 HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Group (HKND), a Chinese infrastructure firm, announced Wednesday that it was delaying the construction of a $50 billion canal across Nicaragua to late 2016, but gave no reason for its decision, according to reports.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/11/26/50-billion-chinese-canal-project-nicaragua-delayed/feed/ 0 Germany reportedly bribed FIFA for 2006 World Cuphttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/16/germany-reportedly-bribed-fifa-2006-world-cup/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/16/germany-reportedly-bribed-fifa-2006-world-cup/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:45:15 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19630 Germany's winning bid for the 2006 World Cup was aided by bribes paid to FIFA executive committee members, the German newsweekly Der Spiegel reported.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/16/germany-reportedly-bribed-fifa-2006-world-cup/feed/ 0 Swiss green-light extradition to US of former Nicaraguan FIFA official Rochahttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/15/swiss-green-light-extradition-us-former-nicaraguan-fifa-official-rocha/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/15/swiss-green-light-extradition-us-former-nicaraguan-fifa-official-rocha/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:00:59 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19602 Former FIFA official Julio Rocha can be extradited to the United States and then to his native Nicaragua as part of a probe into corruption in football, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said Thursday.

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]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/15/swiss-green-light-extradition-us-former-nicaraguan-fifa-official-rocha/feed/ 0 Construction of Nicaragua Canal postponed after details of environmental study made publichttps://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/02/construction-nicaragua-canal-postponed-details-environmental-study-made-public/ https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/02/construction-nicaragua-canal-postponed-details-environmental-study-made-public/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:32:04 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19386 The delay comes after the Britain-based ERM consulting company that performed the project's environmental impact assessment said several issues should be further researched before the project proceeds. Those issues include seismic risks to the locks and whether there is sufficient water to fill the 175-mile canal.

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