Q COSTA RICA — A nationwide United States ground stop is disrupting travel between Costa Rica and the United States on Friday, leaving passengers with uncertain departure times at both ends of the route. Flights from Costa Rica’s Juan Santama...

RICO’s Q — Large motorcycle rides, known as “rodadas”, are drawing concern in Costa Rica. Riding in a group is legal. Blocking traffic, pulling wheelies, and putting other road users at risk are not. Nicaragua has taken a tougher...

Q24N (Nicaragua) Co-president of Nicaragua and wife of Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo, ordered the arrest of her husband’s doctor despite his critical condition. The dictator reappeared in public after a 66-day absence, accompanied by Rosario M...

Q COSTA RICA — A paid fishing trip off Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast ended with the captain detained and the boat seized after coast guard officers found apparent violations of fishing and navigation requirements. Officers from the Quepos C...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rican legislators have moved forward with a bill that would impose prison sentences on people involved in operating clandestine airstrips, as the government seeks to disrupt drug trafficking routes. The Legislative Assembly’s...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rican President Laura Fernández has threatened to sue the La Nación journalist behind reports on the controversial Fire Department’s purchase of 40 ambulances. She remarked at a government news conference on November 11, af...

Q COSTA RICA —  After Caroline Heaviland, a 75-year-old American acupuncturist, was found murdered in her home in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, in August; California surfer and Hotel Puerto Viejo owner Kurt Van Dyke was killed during a violent home inv...

Q COSTA RICA — As Costa Rican businesses gear up for Black Friday, Christmas and New Year, many bring on temporary staff to handle more customers and sales. But a short-term contract does not mean fewer workplace rights, labor lawyer María Marta S...

Q COSTA RICA — Prison officers at Costa Rica’s new high-security facility, the High Containment and Organized Crime, known by its Spanish acronym CACCO, have seized handmade playing cards, improvised clotheslines, pieces of sandals and a small ba...

Q COSTA RICA — A Constitutional Court (Sala IV) order has blocked a second-round vote before November 29, intensifying a dispute over whether the proposed cuts could disrupt the judiciary. If Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly fails to secure enou...