After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government ...

Costa Rica will let some U.S.-deported migrants stay for 3 months after a lawsuit alleged rights violations of children held in a remote detention camp.

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants' passports and phones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts.

The couple, who are in their 40s and have children in the United States from previous relationships, went from a US city to “complete solitude” when they made their first big move to Costa Rica.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves goodbye as he boards a plane at Juan Santamaria International Airport near San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, en route to Guatemala.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of human rights lawyers is suing Costa Rica, alleging the Central American nation violated the rights of dozens of migrant children by detaining them in a rural camp ...

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's government received its first group of mostly Asian migrants deported from the United States on Thursday, part of a deal with Washington to temporarily house up ...

A divided Costa Mesa City Council on Tuesday, May 6, fired City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, leaving the city without a top executive without providing an explanation for what led to her ...

Since 2010, Costa Rica has enjoyed strong and stable economic growth - 3.8% in 2017. Exports of bananas, coffee, sugar, and beef are the backbone of its commodity exports.

Mena returned from exile in neighboring Costa Rica in 2021 to continue protesting, only to be thrown in a prison where he said jailers hung prisoners by their feet and shocked them with electricity.

Costa Rica will let some U.S.-deported migrants stay for 3 months after a lawsuit alleged rights violations of children held in a remote detention camp.