The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) confirmed that a medical device manufacturer, Theragenics Corporation, has leased a manufacturing facility that will launch operations later this year in the province of Alajuela. 

A new study has found that Puerto Rico has undergone such a dramatic population shift that there are now over a million more Puerto Ricans on the US mainland than on the US island territory. 

The 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, hailed at the time as one of the world’s great wonders, has inspired a celebration in central Florida to showcase the experience of the U.S. canal workers behind the engineering feat. 

During the World Cup in Brazil U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited President Dilma Rousseff.  This was an important step towards the resumption of bilateral relations, seriously shaken last year by American espionage against Brazilian companies, citizens, and even President Rousseff herself. 

The U.S. sent Latin American youths to Cuba to push for political change; it didn’t go well. 

After six years of living in Honduras Matthew Keister thinks he knows why children and adolescents, “at least those from the La Ceiba area,” (where he lives) are leaving for the United States, either with coyotes or entirely on their own.  

Moving children to, and over, the U.S. border is a big business; the region’s leaders say they are going to do something about it, but commentators are not so sure; Mexico plans to shut down traffic on “the beast.” 

During a signing the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, recommended that Mexican legislators get “tough” regarding the regulations that apply to private companies in the energy sector.  

The U.S. Government announced the revocation of visas for some Venezuelan officials allegedly involved in violations of human rights and repression of protests by opposition groups. 

The U.S. government “vigorously” condemned the arrest of approximately one hundred members of the Cuban dissident group Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White).