The Tico Times (Costa Rica)
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 07:11
Costa Rica will become the first country in Central America to host a branch of the drug policy reform organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the group announced at a press conference Friday morning.
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 07:44
Responding to pressure from residents in Costa Rica’s Northern Zone, who say they increasingly have become targets for assaults and robberies, the Public Security Ministry announced Thursday that it had conducted the first of several sweeps of the area in an effort to catch the bad guys.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 07:03
Residents and business owners in Nuevo Arenal, a town in north-central Costa Rica near the Arenal Volcano, are demanding a greater police presence after a spike in crime in recent months.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 07:49
Sexual and labor exploitation are the top two drivers of human trafficking in Costa Rica this year, but organ trafficking continues to concern authorities, according to Immigration Administration Director Kathya Rodriguez.
The director said officials have opened investigations into five cases of human trafficking in Costa Rica so far this year. Rodriguez’s comments came during the opening event of a two-day conference on human trafficking in Central America hosted in San José on Tuesday.
Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 00:00
In January, the U.S. government suspended military aid to Guatemala after the Central American country failed to deliver on $154.5 million in reparations to survivors of a massacre over a hydroelectric dam built in the 1980s
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
The government of Iran agreed to build and equip a $2 million medical facility in Nicaragua as part of a deal the Iranian government signed with Nicaragua's foreign minister
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 00:00
Costa Rica's minister of the presidency, Rodrigo Arias, said departed Public Security Minister Fernando Berrocal made “statements without foundation” about local political ties to Colombian guerrillas
Friday, December 14, 2007 - 00:00
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has sent a letter showing full support to the French government in its attempt to negotiate the release of the 16 hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia