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The government has announced new guidelines to strengthen the surveillance in agricultural food production and improve sanitary conditions in places where food is prepared and sold.

Though the sky is clear overhead and sunshine bathes the land, clouds have banked up against the foothills, with the look of an impending thunderstorm. Alongside the creek at the upper end of the parkland, the wind suddenly roars...

Traffic accidents kill more people in Latin America than crime and violence and are now widely reported as the region’s top concern.

Harassment of indigenous people, violence against women, and killings of journalists in the Americas. Those are some of the concerns Amnesty International has raised in a newly released report on human rights on the continent.

Overlooking a long section of the creek (which has become a small raging river after an unprecedented mid-May storm in California), I heard a terrible squawking and squealing to my left. The hideous life and death shrieks came from...

I lived in a gentrified section of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco for a while in the 1980's, about ten years after the hippie movement that began in ‘the Haight’ ended in America. I noticed a funereal trend with young...

‘Narcissistic’ is a word being heard a lot in America these days. Someone even wrote to me in the past week saying, without a hint of irony, “I started meditating last spring and have truly grown to love and...

The Latin American and Caribbean region showed great resilience to the international financial crisis according to a newly released U.N. report on foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2010. Costa Rica was the second largest recipient in Central America.

Henriette Jacobsen, TheCostaRicaNews.comThe magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck at 4:47pm in the northern center of Costa Rica Friday and was felt throughout most of the country. The tremor was 65 km deep and the epicenter was 6 km North of...

A reader wrote with a question that goes right to the heart of remaining inwardly alive in a dead culture: “In the negation of thought, when we experience the still place within us--isn't this when fragmentation has the potential...