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Laura Fernández’s victory was driven by a crisis in which Costa Rica’s reputation for peace has been tarred by record-breaking violence. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and David Bolaños The reporters ...

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

Voters to choose president and 57 members of congress, with current president’s hardline pick Laura Fernández expected to win first round Costa Rica heads to the polls on Sunday in an election ...

Conservative populist Laura Fernández claimed victory in Costa Rica’s presidential race, with early results also pointing to her ruling party securing a majority in an election overshadowed by crime ...

Risk of space collisions on the rise as orbit becomes crowded White Juan was one of the East Coast’s worst blizzards ...

President Rodrigo Chaves’s handpicked successor has vowed to extend his agenda, which has sought to weaken democratic institutions and crack down on rising violence. President Rodrigo Chaves’s ...

Rightwing populist elected in landslide after promising to crack down on rising violence linked to cocaine trade The rightwing populist Laura Fernández has won Costa Rica’s presidential election in a ...

De La Salle High School was set to open its baseball season Wednesday, but the game never happened. De La Salle High School was set to open its baseball season Wednesday, but the game never happened.

According to data released this week by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), the country recorded a -2.53% year-over-year inflation rate in... Lawmakers from multiple parties have ...

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica's presidency, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation's politics started by her ...