Costa Rica Unemployment Rises to 6.7% as Jobs Fall
Costa Rica unemployment rose to 6.7% in June–August 2026 from 6.0% a year earlier. Finance and insurance lost 19,000 jobs,...
October 2, 2026Topic
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Costa Rica Teachers Strike Over Pay Shortfall
Costa Rica teachers at a public school in La Unión, Cartago, stopped classes over planning pay missing since February, about...
October 2, 2026
Costa Rica Ex-Minister Loses Immunity, Faces Two Probes
Costa Rica ex-foreign minister Manuel Tovar lost his immunity when he was fired. Prosecutors now move two cases, one over...
October 2, 2026
Costa Rica Boy Dies Waiting for Ambulance Flight; President Gives Agencies Three Days
Costa Rica's president gave three agencies three days to explain why a 7-year-old Limón boy died waiting for an ambulance...
September 11, 2026
Costa Rica Illicit Trade Hits US$3.6 Billion, Crime’s Top Funding Source
Illicit trade in Costa Rica reached 1.6 trillion colones, about US$3.6 billion, and is organised crime's main funding source, the...
September 11, 2026
Six men murdered and dismembered in Mexican state of Michoacan
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Gunmen murdered six men and dismembered their bodies in a rural area of the western...
July 29, 2021
Federal Police Arrest Another Petrobras Director in Brazil
With the arrest of Jorge Zelada, Brazil's Federal Police have now arrested four former Petrobras directors in connection with the...
July 3, 2015
Lava Jato Operation Arrests High-Level Executives in Brazil
Among those arrested were the presidents of Odebrecht and Andrade Gutierrez, the two largest construction conglomerates in the country.
June 19, 2015