Costa Rica ratifies Association Agreement with European Union
Email this page July 2nd, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) With 43 votes in favor and five against, lawmakers ratified on second reading the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union…
Costa Rica to benefit from new highway, border crossing with Nicaragua
Email this page July 2nd, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) A new, 160-kilometer highway between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which will create a new border crossing, will benefit Costa Rica in several ways,…
Latin America: Snowden gets support from Venezuela
Email this page July 2nd, 2013 (VOA) Fugitive American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has received verbal support from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro told reporters on Tuesday that Snowden “deserves…
Nicaragua Canal plans raise concerns
Email this page Luis Carlos Lopez / VOXXI Despite assurances made by the Chinese businessman that the project to build a canal in Nicaragua is going to be transparent and…
Latin America: Ecuador breaks trade pact with US to counter ‘blackmail’ over Edward Snowden
Email this page Freya Petersen / GlobalPost President Rafael Correa’s government on Thursday renounced the Andean Trade Preference Act, citing US “blackmail” over an asylum request by fugitive former NSA…
U.N. weather agency: No El Niño or La Niña this year
Email this page The Pacific Ocean will probably not have an El Nino effect or its La Nina opposite number through the end of the year, the U.N.’s weather agency…
New areas of growth in Latin America
Email this page Juliana Machado / Infosurhoy Paraguay and Panama are expected to register the strongest growth in the region, according to the ECLAC and the IMF. The most recent…
Ancient Maya city, hidden by jungle, uncovered in Mexico
Email this page Archaeologists say an ancient Maya city found in Mexico’s Yucatan may yield clues to how the mysterious civilization presided over a vast empire at its peak. …
