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In Spain, the 30th Ibero-American Summit ended with differences between the political leaders of the region, divided by their ideological banks: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay disagreed with the Madrid Declaration, in the paragraph that rejects the coercion and application to countries of measures contrary to international law and the UN Charter. Report from our correspondent, Marina Colorado.
President Laura Fernandez inaugurated the $35m mega-prison built to house up to 5,100 inmates near San Jose.
Geneva, 15 May 2020 – Presidents Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica and Sebastián Piñera of Chile joined WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today to announce progress on a technology platform that aims to lift access barriers to effective vaccines, medicines and other health products against COVID-19. Costa Rica proposed the idea at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and several countries are now backing the proposal. “Our proposal relies on solidarity,” said President Alvarado of Costa Rica. “It’s a Solidarity call to action to Member States, to academia, to companies,
President Laura Fernandez says mega-prison is part of 'tough-on-crime model' embraced by her government.
From droughts to floods and fires, El Niño is revealing the vulnerabilities of Latin American food systems, as it puts increasing pressure on farmers, food supply and family budgets throughout the region.
The earthquake has not caused victims and the authorities have overturned a possible tsunami alert for Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.
A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so unusual that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it. The meter-tall colonies rise from seafloors covered in brittle stars, inspiring the Tolkien-inspired name Laurinque elenya, or “golden tree of the stars.” Advanced genetic analysis revealed that the coral belongs to a previously unknown evolutionary lineage.
From droughts to floods and fires, El Niño is exposing vulnerabilities in Latin America’s food systems by putting farmers, food supplies and household budgets under growing pressure across the region.
Laura Fernández accuses Manuel Tovar, an important piece of government, of not sending her the invitation in New York while she was visiting Colombia
President Fernandez dismisses foreign minister over his attendance at the "Shield of the Americas" meeting in New York.
For decades, Costa Rica operated as the last oasis of democratic stability and security in Central America. Today, hit by an unprecedented murder crisis, the Executive is driving a 'hard hand' recipe and judicial reforms that open a collision front with the Supreme Court and the opposition. We discussed in France 24 with Mr Edgardo Araya (Front Amplio) on the risk of an institutional break: 'We are concerned to end up being like El Salvador'.
Central American politics is struggling not to become a Chinese vase. Today he leads the Club de Madrid, which brings together former heads of State
