Only emergency, essential care as doctors join Friday’s public sector strike
If you had an appointment to see a doctor or specialist, have tests performed, or even have surgery on Friday at any of the country’s public health facilities or hospitals,…
Costa Rica set to explain itself to human rights court on Thursday
Costa Rica is set to explain itself to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday over the decision of the country’s Constitutional Court earlier this month to suspend a…
Massive public sector strikes expected to cripple Costa Rica in coming days
What public sector union leaders are promising to be the largest series of union strikes in decades are expected to cripple Costa Rica in the coming days as talks between…
Andres Oppenheimer: The fall of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela
The Trans-Pacific trade agreement signed last week between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries will be another nail in the coffin of the populist governments of Brazil,…
Costa Rica’s Supreme Court suspends decree permitting IVF after appeal
Costa Rica’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, has suspended a September executive decree that authorized the assisted reproduction technique, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) until the Court is able to resolve an…
Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s top problem is corruption
When Peruvian-born Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa told me in a public interview in front of 300 newspaper editors last weekend that "corruption is the biggest threat to Latin…
Government begins trying to pay down $1.4 billion dollar debt to “La Caja”
Costa Rican president, Luis Guillermo Solis announced that the government has made a payment of ¢25 billion, or about US $46.7 million, towards its debt of some US $1.4 billion…
Watch President Solis’ big Wednesday speech at the United Nations (VIDEO, dubbed in English)
Full video of President Luis Guillermo Solis' 30-minute speech at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations on September 30th, 2015 (dubbed in English).…
