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Costa Rica’s colón continues to defy gravity against the U.S. dollar, closing yet another week below the ¢460 mark and tightening the squeeze on tourism operators, exporters and dollar-earning expats that The Tico Times has been tracking for months. The story took a fresh turn over the weekend, when newly published minutes from the Banco …
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Hundreds of farmers marched on horseback and on foot through the rural community of Limón in Panama’s Chagres district Saturday to reject plans for a new reservoir on the Indio River. The demonstration ended at the banks of the Indio River, where the Panama Canal Authority plans to build a dam that would create a …
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El Salvador recorded a historic 4.1 million international visitors in 2025, the highest annual figure the country has ever seen. Ministry of Tourism data released in January show the total topped the previous year’s 3.9 million by about 5 percent and beat official targets. Recent updates from Minister Morena Valdez indicate arrivals in the first …
Renowned Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora considered a “prisoner of conscience” by international organizations, said Friday that Latin America’s political and economic elites view journalism as a “subversive exercise” and impose severe punishments on those who practice it. Speaking virtually from Guatemala City, where he is under house arrest after spending nearly three years in …
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A new Museum of Memory has opened in San José, Costa Rica, giving Nicaraguan exiles and victims’ families a public space to document the repression that followed the 2018 protests against Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The museum, titled Lo que no debemos olvidar — What Should Not Be Forgotten — was created by the …
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Costa Rica will begin demolishing the old toll booths on the General Cañas Highway next Monday, April 27, with overnight closures expected to affect drivers heading from San José toward Alajuela and Juan Santamaría International Airport. The work will run from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for an estimated five days. During that window, the …
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Shipping companies have paid as much as $4 million in last-minute auction fees to send vessels through the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Authority confirmed this week, as the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S.-Iran conflict forces global trade to shift routes. The surge comes on top of standard transit fees …
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Cuban authorities have ordered the release of three Panamanian women detained since late February on accusations of spreading subversive propaganda against the Cuban government, Panama’s Foreign Ministry said Friday. The women — Evelyn Castro, Cinthia del Carmen Camarena and Abigail Sthefany Gudiño — will be allowed to leave Cuban territory, the ministry said in a …
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Costa Rica received a third group of people deported from the United States yesterday afternoon, as the country continues carrying out a new migration cooperation agreement signed with Washington in late March. The latest flight brought 28 people to Juan Santamaría International Airport: 25 foreign nationals and three Costa Ricans. The arrivals were confirmed by …
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Brazil’s Joao Fonseca moved into the third round of the Madrid Masters 1000 on Friday without playing a point, after Croatia’s Marin Cilic withdrew from their second-round match because of food poisoning. The result sends the 19-year-old Brazilian deeper into one of the biggest clay-court tournaments of the season and keeps alive another strong run …
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