Q COSTA RICA —  After Caroline Heaviland, a 75-year-old American acupuncturist, was found murdered in her home in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, in August; California surfer and Hotel Puerto Viejo owner Kurt Van Dyke was killed during a violent home inv...

Q COSTA RICA — As Costa Rican businesses gear up for Black Friday, Christmas and New Year, many bring on temporary staff to handle more customers and sales. But a short-term contract does not mean fewer workplace rights, labor lawyer María Marta S...

Q COSTA RICA — Prison officers at Costa Rica’s new high-security facility, the High Containment and Organized Crime, known by its Spanish acronym CACCO, have seized handmade playing cards, improvised clotheslines, pieces of sandals and a small ba...

Q COSTA RICA — A Constitutional Court (Sala IV) order has blocked a second-round vote before November 29, intensifying a dispute over whether the proposed cuts could disrupt the judiciary. If Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly fails to secure enou...

Q COSTA RICA — Acting on an urgent request for an interim measure filed by Patricia Vargas, President of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court, or Sala IV as it is commonly known, ordered legislators on Monday to suspend the second...