19/10/2012 | Economia y Finanzas
Costa Rica and Colombia prepare for 3rd round of free trade negotiations
The 3rd round of negotiations surrounding the possible free trade agreement between Costa Rica and Colombia will begin in Cali, Colombia, on Monday. Anabel Gonzalez, Foreign Trade minister, said that this round of negotiations would focus on determining which of each nation’s products would be included in the agreement.
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01/08/2012 | Economia y Finanzas
Nicaragua - Dutch Firms Report Hired For Feasibility Study Of Nicaragua Canal
Two Dutch companies say they have been awarded a US$720,000 (EURO 587,000) contract by the Nicaraguan government to study the feasibility of building a rival to the Panama canal that would travel through Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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01/08/2012 | Economia y Finanzas
Nicaragua - Dutch Firms Report Hired For Feasibility Study Of Nicaragua Canal
Two Dutch companies say they have been awarded a US$720,000 (EURO 587,000) contract by the Nicaraguan government to study the feasibility of building a rival to the Panama canal that would travel through Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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26/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Costa Rica - More control on bank transfers: Rules to curb money laundering
Starting July 1, foreign nationals will need to present proof of immigration status to make transactions between Costa Rican banks.
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19/05/2012 | Frente Externo
Costa Rica Once Again Accuses Nicaraguan Of Occupation Of Isla Calero
Costa Rica has once again denounced the presence of Nicaraguan students in the area of Isla Calero with Costa Rica's Foreign Minister, Enrique Castillo, delivering a tough letter to the Nicaraguan ambassador to Costa Rica.
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29/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Colombia Drug Lords Tried to Turn in Sinaloa Cartel Leader Chapo Guzman'
Costa Rican Alejandro Jimenez Gonzalez, alias “El Palidejo”, had 16 reasons to feel afraid. Jailed in Guatemala, accused of planning the killing of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, Jimenez could become involved in a drug trafficking and money laundering trial against 16 defendants in a Brooklyn, New York court.
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23/03/2012 | Frente Externo
Central American - Nicaragua and El Salvador Study Central American Integration
The governments of Nicaragua and El Salvador started on Wednesday an exchange to strengthen bilateral relations and Central American integration through delegations headed by their foreign ministers.
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01/11/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Costa Rican Linked To Facundo Cabral Murder Subject Of International Arrest Warrant
Costa Rican Alejandro Jiménez is a wanted man after Guatemalan authorities issued an international arrest warrant for his role in the murder of singer Facundo Cabral.
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28/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia seizes another cocaine-loaded submarine
Colombian police have seized a submarine used by drug cartels to ship cocaine in international waters, authorities said Monday.
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27/09/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Cuba, Brazil sign agreement to boost joint medicine production
Cuba and Brazil on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which they agreed to promote cooperation in producing medicines to be used against major diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
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26/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Latin America - Costa Rica Tops In Money Laundering In Central America
Nestor Chavez, compliance officer for the Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica (BCIE) - Central American Bank for Economic Integration - released in Costa Rica, the details of a study conducted of the countries of the region through which it was established that from 2000 to 2009, some us$14 billion dollars was the product of money laundering.
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13/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Another Honduran Journalist Murdered
Tegucigalpa - Honduran journalist Medardo Flores, member of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), was killed in the northern department of Cortes, the 16th assassination of its type in less than two years.
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07/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nicaragua Hits Drug Trafficking
Nicaragua's National Police, the smallest in Central America, deprived international drug traffickers of the equivalent of 2,500 million USD over the past five years, reported the institution.
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07/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nicaragua Hits Drug Trafficking
Nicaragua's National Police, the smallest in Central America, deprived international drug traffickers of the equivalent of 2,500 million USD over the past five years, reported the institution.
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05/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nicaragua's Army Chief Says He Will Not Allow Encroachment Of Disputed Wetlands
The chief of Nicaragua's Army, General Julio Cesar Aviles, warned that "never will they allow the removal" of Nicaraguan territory, including the San Juan River and the wetland dispute with Costa Rica that is now before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ).
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05/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Guatemala in Final Stage of Electoral Campaign
In the final stretch of the campaign, when there are only a few days remaining for the elections, presidential candidates focus more on criticizing rivals that on proposing concrete solutions to the problems of Guatemala.
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05/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Guatemala in Final Stage of Electoral Campaign
Guatemala - In the final stretch of the campaign, when there are only a few days remaining for the elections, presidential candidates focus more on criticizing rivals that on proposing concrete solutions to the problems of Guatemala.
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05/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nicaragua's Army Chief Says He Will Not Allow Encroachment Of Disputed Wetlands
The chief of Nicaragua's Army, General Julio Cesar Aviles, warned that "never will they allow the removal" of Nicaraguan territory, including the San Juan River and the wetland dispute with Costa Rica that is now before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ).
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05/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Guatemala in Final Stage of Electoral Campaign
In the final stretch of the campaign, when there are only a few days remaining for the elections, presidential candidates focus more on criticizing rivals that on proposing concrete solutions to the problems of Guatemala.
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05/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Guatemala in Final Stage of Electoral Campaign
Guatemala - In the final stretch of the campaign, when there are only a few days remaining for the elections, presidential candidates focus more on criticizing rivals that on proposing concrete solutions to the problems of Guatemala.
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31/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia's Former President Calls For Tax To Fight Crime In Costa Rica
Like a blessing from the heavens was for presidenta Laura Chinchilla and her government was the message delivered yesterday by Colombia's former president, Álvaro Uribe, for a tax to finance the fight against crime in Costa Rica.
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31/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia's Former President Calls For Tax To Fight Crime In Costa Rica
Like a blessing from the heavens was for presidenta Laura Chinchilla and her government was the message delivered yesterday by Colombia's former president, Álvaro Uribe, for a tax to finance the fight against crime in Costa Rica.
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26/08/2011 | Transparencia
Congress on Money Laundering Opens in Panama
The 15th Hemispheric Congress on money laundering and terrorism financing begins Wednesday until Friday in Panama City, organized by the Banking Association and the Commission on the Prevention of Money Laundering.
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26/08/2011 | Transparencia
Congress on Money Laundering Opens in Panama
The 15th Hemispheric Congress on money laundering and terrorism financing begins Wednesday until Friday in Panama City, organized by the Banking Association and the Commission on the Prevention of Money Laundering.
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11/08/2011 | Sociedad
Honduras: Afro-descendants Congress for End of Racism
People of African descent around the world will gather in Honduras under the auspices of the United Nations to demand the end of racism and equal access to justice, health, housing, employment and funding. The event, sponsored by the UN in the international year of Afrodescendants, will be held in the Caribbean port of La Ceiba, 279 miles north of Tegucigalpa, on August 18-20.
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01/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala Readies Security Plan for Elections
Guatemala - The Ministry of the Interior is preparing a strategic plan to ensure security in the September 11 general elections in Guatemala.
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27/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
''Narco'' Lawyer Is Out, Pavas Court Rules
Leonel Villalobos is, was, the defence lawyer for one of the two Mexican nationals linked to the crashed plane with 177 kilograms on board last October and at centre stage of the attempt by the two alleged drug traffickers to leave La Reforma prison for house arrest.
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27/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
''Narco'' Lawyer Is Out, Pavas Court Rules
Leonel Villalobos is, was, the defence lawyer for one of the two Mexican nationals linked to the crashed plane with 177 kilograms on board last October and at centre stage of the attempt by the two alleged drug traffickers to leave La Reforma prison for house arrest.
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24/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Nicaragua - Daniel Ortega would Win Elections in Nicaragua, According to New Poll
The Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega, would win the general election next November 6 and would continue to rule Nicaragua for five more years, according to a new survey.
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24/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Nicaragua - Daniel Ortega would Win Elections in Nicaragua, According to New Poll
The Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega, would win the general election next November 6 and would continue to rule Nicaragua for five more years, according to a new survey.
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02/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Costa Rica Hosts Meeting For First Multinational Treaty Designed To Stop Drug Trafficking In The Caribbean
Delegates from 12 countries are trying to reach agreement on how to implement the first multinational treaty designed to stop drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
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10/03/2011 | Frente Externo
Costa Rica May Not Look At Nicaragua – Or Itself – The Same Way Again
The border dispute with Nicaragua had Costa Ricans rethinking its lack of army, and while the ruling from the International Court of Justice in The Hague provides an institutional solution to the border conflict, many fear the psychological damage has already been done.
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01/03/2011 | Frente Externo
Laura Chinchilla Said That The Dispute With Nicaragua Gave Her Gastritis
Presidenta Laura Chinchilla said the territorial dispute with Nicaragua has given her gastritis. Doña Laura in an interview with a printed newspaper said she has not take medication to relieve gastritis and continues outraged by what her government has called an invasion by Nicaragua of Costa Rica.
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10/01/2011 | Frente Externo
Costa Rica Builds Defense Around Isla Calero
The government of Laura Chinchilla has decided to begin erecting barriers at the mouths of the Colorado, Sarapiqui, and San Carlos rivers to prevent the possible entrance of Nicaraguan boats.
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15/12/2010 | Frente Externo
U.S. Illegal Experiments Went Far Beyond Guatemala
The illegal experiments conducted on human beings by a U.S. medical team in the 1940s went far beyond Guatemala, according to local news reports.
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08/12/2010 | Frente Externo
Costa Rica Obtains Support From OAS But No Changes Expected As Nicaragua Is Again Ordered Out Of Isla Calero
Costa Rica on Tuesday obtained the support of 24 member nations at the special meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, to sanction Nicaragua for the invasion of the Isla calero.
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03/12/2010 | Frente Externo
Costa Rica President Orders More Police To Nicaragua Border
Presidenta Laura Chinchilla before heading for Argentina for the Iberian-American Summit, said she will be sending specially trained police to the disputed border area with Nicaragua, where Nicaraguan troops continue the occupation of the Isla Calero that Costa Rica claims its own.
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01/12/2010 | Frente Externo
OAS urges dialog between Chile and Bolivia
The Organization of American States (OAS) secretary general said on Tuesday that the dialog between Chile and Bolivia on their maritime border should continue, even though the case between Peru and Chile in The Hague is still pending.
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26/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Criminal Gang Linked to Guatemala Police
The gang responsible for the assassination of Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg in 2009 was linked to over 20 members of the National Civil Police (PNC), according to Prensa Libre paper.
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31/08/2009 | Frente Externo
Costa Rican President Calls for New Constitution
Costa Rican president Oscar Arias is joining the trend in Latin America calling for constitutional changes that would expand executive powers, allow re-elections and get rid of unnecessary checks on presidential authority.
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