Costa Rica
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After Pearl Harbor, US state department strong-armed allies into expropriating, confining and often deporting German emigrants living in Central and Latin America
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Keylor Navas says he will take legal action after accusing 24 Costa Rican government agents of violating his privacy
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He disappeared into thin air in Costa Rica five years ago
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Ending undernutrition includes selling fortified food to those who need it most. Gisela Sanchez Maroto explains how
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Costa Rica lodges diplomatic protest, describing TV4's use of anthem in trailer as 'grave disrespect to our national symbol'
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Following embarrassing ‘Cuban Twitter' revelations, in one case a HIV workshop was the ‘perfect excuse’ for political goals
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Podcast: Costa Rica eliminate Greece and Holland's late double sees Mexicans wave goodbye to the tournament. Plus, previews of Nigeria v France and Germany v Algeria
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Their star striker still gets his hair cut in the barrio, and in the capital they say success in Brazil is down to hard work – and a strong society, writes Jo Tuckman
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The Costa Rican press spoke of ‘pride in its finest’ after ‘surprising the world’ and becoming the ‘giant of the group of death’
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Circled by sharks and forbidden to humans, Isla del Coco is one of the most isolated parts of the planet. Why did the likes of Marina Abramovic and Ed Ruscha want their art buried there? Nadim Samman reveals all
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Gold, silver, gems and church treasures were all buried by pirates on the tropical Pacific island
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Pirates and whalers introduced more than 100 alien species to the exotic and unique ecosystem
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The remote Pacific island is targeted by illegal fishing because of its extraordinarily rich ecosystem, the 'sharkiest place on the planet'
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A night-time dive in the waters off Cocos Island, Costa Rica, captured this video of large numbers of white-tip reef sharks feeding over one of the rich coral reefs
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Damian Carrington joins a patrol boat on a hunt for pirate vessels looting the Cocos Island's rich and protected marine ecosystem
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Steve Caplan: The Rio Celeste in Costa Rica becomes an enchanting celestial blue at the convergence of two tributaries. Until recently scientists have been at a loss to explain this mysterious phenomenon
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Swaths of rainforest affected by 'narco-deforestation' caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers, reports Frédéric Saliba
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Salvadorean vice-president Salvador Sanchez just short of outright victory, and two Costa Rican candidates neck and neck
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Agalychnis callidryas, also knows as a red-eyed frog, is native to the Neotropical rain forests of Central America and can jump up to a metre and a half in length. The pictures were captured by Columbian-born photographer Nicolas Reusens in Costa Rica.
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A gathering of 3000-5000 spinner dolphins, known as a megapod, is filmed underwater for the first time for a BBC series, Dolphins – Spy in the Pod. Two robotic 'spy creatures' with cameras in their mouths and eyes view the dolphins gathering to socialise in the nutrient-rich waters off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
Dolphins – Spy in the Pod, BBC One, from Thursday 2 January, 8pm
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Scientists hopeful of finding other amphibian species presumed to have been wiped out by chytrid fungus infection
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Inter-American court rules in favour of Leopoldo García Lucero, who waited more than 16 years for restitution
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Health organisation warns that figures 'may explode' due to favourable climatic conditions for virus-carrying mosquito
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Decision to close last two zoos is welcomed by animal rights campaigners but challeged by Simón Bolívar zoo in San José
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Alleged money-launderer Arthur Budovsky may have paid $800 to marry Costa Rican food vendor in bid to avoid extradition
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Federal prosecutors in New York shut down Costa Rica-based digital currency firm and claim it was the 'financial hub of the cyber-crime world'
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Arthur Budovsky, who set up digital currency business, is held as part of money-laundering investigation involving US
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President follows talks with counterpart Peña Nieto with speech that includes prediction of successful immigration reform
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Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and even tourist-friendly Costa Rica are now caught up in the drugs trade
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Brother criticises Costa Rican and British authorities for lack of help
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Hard-drinking, pistol-packing, taboo-breaking singer of Mexican rancheras, revolutionary ballads and tangos
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Paul Watson, who is awaiting extradition decision for alleged navigational infringement, says case is 'highly political'
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Ina Porras: Costa Rica's creative approach to sustainable development includes paying for environmental resources, such as forests and water
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Sea Shepherd group vows to fight founder's possible extradition from Germany to Costa Rica over 2002 incident at sea
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