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Antonio, Ibrain, Victoria, Lizeth, Xiomara and Zaira. All six have etched in their memory the people they were able to help and those they couldn’t while crossing the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous points on the Central American migration route to the United States.
Fixated on migration as a big issue of the 2024 presidential elections, the Biden administration is ignoring the state’s piecemeal assault on democracy in Guatemala, a country already struggling with endemic violence, in return for curbs on U.S.-bound migration.
Amid post-pandemic trade distortions and changing consumer habits, Latin American countries seeking to boost coffee exports should eye a growing specialty market in prosperous Asian countries.
-Analysis- The #MeToo movement was, above all, a collective “breaking of the silence” that shifted the longstanding balance of power on the question of sexual misconduct, particularly in the professional world. Many have noted that what became a collective raising of (mostly female) voices may have required the accusations of a few Hollywood movie stars […]
LA CRUZ — Yet another migrant crisis for the world: the tiny Central American nation of Costa Rica is now faced with the arrival of thousands of Haitians, many by way of crisis-hit Brazil. Over the past four months, some 8,500 Haitians have entered the tiny Central American nation, reports La Nación, based in the […]
SAN JOSÉ — A troubling new sea-bound migration route has opened up, as some 20,000 migrants from African countries are believed to have flocked to Costa Rica, according to a recently released International Organization for Migration (IOM) report. La Nación, a daily in the Costa Rican capital of San José, reports that the figure of […]
24HORAS (Costa Rica), CLARIN (Argentina), CNN EN ESPAÑOL SAN JOSE – Costa Rican Vice-Minister of Youth Karina Bolaños is in hot water after a ‘hot” video of her, lying in bed wearing only lingerie and flirting with the camera began to circulate on the Internet, 24Horas reported. Adding to the controversy, the video was meant […]
Worldcrunch EL UNIVERSAL (Mexico) SAN JOSÉ – The Costa Rican capital is where Los Charros, a Central American drug cartel with links to to one of Mexico’s biggest mafia families, picks up cocaine to transfer through Central America. And Los Charros has found a way to launder money to cover up its trafficking revenue: by […]
LA NACIÓN (Costa Rica) SAN JOSE – Costa Rica’s claims to fame include beautiful beaches, a stable democracy, a greasy pigskin specialty called “chicharrónes,” a couple of World Cup appearances and… as of this week, membership in the exclusive “Mount Everest Club.” Costa Rican mountaineer Warner Rojas reached the 8,848-meter (29,029-foot) summit of Everest Thursday […]
LA NACIÓN (Costa Rica) SAN JOSE – An American man accused of running a sex slave operation in Costa Rica is on the lam while his associates – a Colombian, a Costa Rican and an Egyptian man – are now behind bars following a series of raids this past week. Police in San Jose, the […]
In sauces and on skewers, critters that crawled and worms that squirmed are increasingly seen as a thrifty source of protein for people in the developing world — and beyond.