Latin America less peaceful than a year before
Latin America emerged in 2015 as a less peaceful region than it was the year before, according to a new study on global peace released Wednesday. The general trend is…
Prison needs better mattresses for conjugal visits: Costa Rica high court
After appeals by prisoners serving time in the maximum security unit of Costa Rica’s La Reforma Prison, the country’s Constitutional Court has ordered that better mattresses be provided for conjugal…
Man sentenced to 35 years in grisly murder, dismemberment filmed on a cell phone
A Limon court has sentenced Jose Luis Rodriguez Zamora to 35 years in prison for the murder and dismemberment of a man in February 2012 that one of his accomplices…
Police seize $1 million in cash from trailer carrying toilet paper
Agents of Costa Rica’s Drug Control Police (PCD) at the Peñas Blancas border crossing with Nicaragua seized $1 million in cash from a Guatemalan trucker driver carrying a load of…
British banks to review possible corrupt FIFA payments
Two British banks say they have launched internal reviews into how allegedly corrupt payments were funneled through their institutions as part of the years-long world football bribery scheme.…
Costa Rica football federation received bribe from U.S. company for Eduardo Li: Prosecutors
According to a 161-page indictment by prosecutors in the United States, the Costa Rican Football Federation (Fedefútbol) received a bribe on behalf of its president, Eduardo Li, from a U.S.…
Prosecutors will try yet again to get former lawmaker, Jorge Angulo to face corruption charges
Costa Rica’s Attorney General’s office is once again attempting to get former PLN lawmaker Jorge Angulo into a courtroom to face corruption charges in a motion filed earlier this month.…
President of Costa Rica’s soccer federation amongst those arrested in major FIFA corruption scandal
Football's global governing body, FIFA, was rocked Wednesday by a massive U.S. federal corruption indictment against current and former top officials and the announcement of a separate investigation by Swiss…
