Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - In Honduras and Nicaragua the cost that a company must take on in order to formalize a worker amounts to more than 70% of what they produce, while in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, it is just under 40%. From a statement issued by the Inter-American Development...

QCOSTARICA via Harvard International Review - In many respects, Costa Rica has been Latin America’s success story in the last century, having achieved stable democratic rule since 1949 and attaining high levels of economic development. Virtually since the time of colonization, Latin America has been plagued with political and economic...

The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is arguably the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere and is so feared it has been left to run its own prison – the Penas Ciudad Barrios. The maximum security prison located in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador, houses only Mara Salvatrucha members...