After a month of crippling ransomware attacks, Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency.

The election of conservative economist Rodrigo Chaves to be Costa Rica's next president has worried many women because of sexual harassment allegations against him.

Costa Rican president-elect Rodrigo Chaves says his runoff victory was a “revolution” by marginalized communities against the country's elites.

A former Costa Rican president took an early lead in national election in what had been a wide-open field of 25 candidates.

A former Costa Rican president took an early lead in national election in what had been a wide-open field of 25 candidates.

Costa Ricans head into national elections Sunday facing a dizzying array of 25 candidates for president, no dominant issue to drive turnout and nearly one-third of those intending to vote saying they have no clear idea of who their selection will be.

A day after questioned elections, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government has set about painting as a historic democratic victory what many of the world’s democracies condemned as a sham.

Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the U_N_ meeting of world leaders, a day after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world was "on the edge of an abyss.”.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to entice Central American nations to tackle the corruption and poverty that have helped drive a surge of migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border and presented an early challenge for the Biden administration.

Costa Rica became the latest country to legalize same-sex marriage early Tuesday when a ruling from its supreme court went into effect ending the country's ban. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez)SAN JOSE Costa Rica became the latest country to legalize same-sex marriage early Tuesday when a ruling from its supreme court went into effect ending the country's ban. Theirs was the first legal gay marriage in Costa Rica and it was streamed live on the internet. Costa Rica is the sixth country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, following most recently Ecuador, which allowed it last year. The Legislative Assembly did not act, so at midnight the law banning same-sex marriage was nullified.

GENEVA Costa Ricas president said Friday that COVID-19 can only be defeated if countries shun nationalism and arent selfish, urging access to diagnostics and treatment tools for everyone as a major meeting of the World Health Organizations membership looms next week. Usually the WHOs biggest annual event, the assembly will be conducted online and is billed as a de minimis version focusing only on the outbreak. The WHO hopes conditions will improve so an assembly with a far broader agenda can be held before year-end. China considers Taiwan part of its territory and points to the widely accepted One China policy. Allowing for some sort of meaningful participation would seem to be the minimum that the WHO could do, U.S.