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. 

The Miraflores district of Lima has proposed a system to preserve the nation’s cultural heritage that could be revolutionary. 

The first “to cry, scream, kick, insult, and become hysterical are the libertarian, neo-liberal, right-wing columnists who will go to extremes of frenzied upheaval” if anything happens to their “admired and protected” classes and institutions. 

The criminal record of John Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, alias “Popeye,”looks at first sight to be “absurd” and wildly exaggerated, crediting him with the direct or indirect involvement in the death of over 3,000 people. 

A string of fishing towns along the Pacific coast is witnessing a growing tide of foreign and domestic tourists searching for ideal waves for surfing. 

In October the Agencia de Turismo Cutural Paradiso will offer a package tour of Cuba called Por los Caminos del Che. 

This beautiful Hacienda in Chincha has a painful history. 

Chicken and pork products are in big demand in Bolivia, while the latest nutrition survey showed that one in five children are over weight or obese in Costa Rica.