On Wednesday, Luis Guillermo Solís gave his speech of accountability for the third year of administration. He did so in the Plenary Assembly of the Legislative Assembly before legislators, diplomatic corps, magistrates and government ministers. The president reiterated the need for Costa Rica to approve the projects of Value Added Tax and the reform to […]

The arrival of Gonzalo Ramírez to the presidency of the Legislative Assembly caused criticism for the future of projects on human rights, gender equity, and recognition of the rights of same sex couples, due to the conservative thought of the legislator, who is an evangelical pastor and states that the values and traditions he has […]

A 2-year-old girl, with signs of possible heat stroke, was located inside the same car in which a slain woman was found on Wednesday. Carlos Hidalgo, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security (MSP), confirmed that the incident happened in the town of Solania, in Tilarán de Guanacaste. The car where the woman’s body […]

Thousands of workers affiliated with three labor federations in Honduras marched on Labor Day, protesting against the privatizations they believe have led to an increase in taxes and foreign debt. The local press estimated that more than 10,000 government and private enterprise workers as well as human rights activists walked about half a kilometer down […]

For several groups of Costa Rican ecologists, pineapple plantations are simply disastrous. They claim that this damages the soil, generates plagues of flies and that the neighboring communities cannot consume the water because the agrochemicals end up contaminating the groundwater. But a group of scientists sought to turn the situation around and is proving they […]