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Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveOmar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, has been reelected in a sham election. World citizens and civil society organizations urgently need to declare...

Adelia Reyes walks for two hours three times a week with a bag full of clothes to wash for her and her six children. This indigenous Cabecar community near Gavilán Canta, Talamanca, Limón, must also cope with constant illness...

by R. AGUILARThe road passing through the Braulio Carrillo will be reopened on Monday according to traffic police.A huge landslide fell on the road early Tuesday morning and it was not until yesterday that they managed to remove debris...

by VANESSA LOAIZA N.Two policemen are in serious condition after being shot and wounded this morning during a street blockade in Limon.According to Marin Germain, director of the Transit Police, incidents of violence were reported in the area of...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveIt’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead of me with some small animal...

by ALONSO MATA BThe rectors of the state universities and the Government are seeking to define the budget of the school houses for the next five years.At 5 pm the National Council of Rectors (CONARE) composed of top leaders...

The European Union (EU) and Central America failed to close the trade chapter of the Association Agreement despite the intense pace of  negotiation that lasted until dawn on Monday in Brussels.As reported by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister...

by IRENE VIZCAÍNOAfter conciliatory speeches and handshakes, the elected president, Laura Chinchilla, and the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, set to work.Just yesterday, they agreed to work together on a project to create a tourism corridor that includes the province...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveSometimes, fewer than a thousand words are better than a picture, or a video. For example, the image of a San Jose, California Pulitzer-prize winning photographer and teacher halting a bank robber in the act by...

By TCRN StaffBogotá. The Colombian chain said it "is not in talks with the U.S. firm aiming to realize a strategic alliance or any kind of agreement or negotiation."In information provided to the Superintendent of Finance, said the Colombian chain...