Hernandez to be sworn in as Honduras president
Email this page TEGUCIGALPA, January 27, 2014 (AFP) – Conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez will be sworn in Monday as president of Honduras, one of Latin America’s poorest countries and which…
Colombia urges global approach to legalising drugs
Email this page DAVOS, January 27, 2014 (AFP) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has called for a scientifically backed international effort to weigh the consequences of legalising marijuana, urging…
Latin America pins hopes on Hague to settle scores
Email this page By Alexandre Grosbois | AFP January 27, 2014 (AFP) – Call them symbolic or the stuff of chest-thumping national pride, but a string of rumbling Latin American…
Growth without Poverty Reduction: The Case of Costa Rica
In the early 1980s, as was the case in much of Latin America, Costa Rica suffered its worst economic crisis in decades. Between 1980 and 1982 the economy contracted by…
Costa Rica government accused of spying on newspaper’s reporters
Email this page January 22nd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Reporters Without Borders is calling for an investigation into spying on the San José-based Diario Extra newspaper, which reported at a news conference…
Workers must receive time off to vote on February 2nd
Email this page January 14th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Employers must allow their workers time to vote for Costa Rica’s next president on Sunday, February 2nd, or face stiff fines. That…
Presidential frontrunners faced off in second and last official debate
Email this page January 7th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) In the second and last official presidential debate on Monday organized by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), seven presidential hopefuls including frontrunners Johnny…
Liberal and conservative ideologies clashed in first official presidential debate
Email this page January 6th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Liberal and conservative ideologies clashed over issues such as abortion, religion, and free trade during the first of two debates nationally televised between…
