Author: Javier Cordoba
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Costa Rica’s top newspaper says US revoked visas of its executives, prompting press freedom concerns
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — The United States has revoked the visas of several board executives at La Nación, one of Costa Rica’s leading media outlets, triggering fresh accusations that the U.S. — in conjunction with the allied Costa Rican government — is stripping visas to punish critics and political opponents. In a statement…
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Costa Rica to accept 25 ‘third country’ deportees from US every week
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries.” The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the…
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A US strike on a suspected drug boat off Costa Rica leaves 2 dead, 1 critically hurt
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A U.S. strike on a boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast left at least two people dead and one seriously injured, Costa Rican authorities said Friday. The attack on the alleged drug boat was reported by the U.S. Southern Command on its X account.…
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Costa Rican a celebrity after certified miracle
TRES RIOS, Costa Rica – On a warm spring day, Floribeth Mora was in her bed waiting to die from a seemingly inoperable brain aneurysm when her gaze fell upon a photograph of Pope John Paul II in a newspaper. “Stand up,” Mora recalls the image of the pope saying to her. “Don’t be afraid.”…