Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The Sala Tercera (Sala III)  has exonerated the mayor of Coronado, Leonardo Herrera Sanchez, sentenced to three months in prison, for using his official vehicle to go to a motel. The judges of the Sala Tercera on Friday, in their decision 2015-01329, acquitted Herrera of all penalty and...

TODAY COLOMBIA - Colombian police said Monday that the country's homicide rate decreased by 6% in the first nine months compared with the same period last year. Meanwhile, cases of extortive kidnapping reduced by 42%, and regular extortion rate fell by 19%t compared with the cases reported in 2014, according...

QCOSTARICA - Stow away insects in shipments of fruit from Costa Rica were stopped up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspectors at the Port of Philadelphia. A local CBS report says that CBP inspectors stopped five destructive insects, of the intruders, a clover leaf weevil, in a shipment...