Yearly Archives: 2015
Saturday Night in Costa Rica
Saturday Night, the sky was ablaze at sunset in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital city. These are views from my apartment.
The glass high-rise tower is the Holiday Inn Hotel. The yellow building (called Casa Amarilla) is the Foreign Ministry for Costa Rica. This is where President Obama met...
Latin America Soccer Officials Implicated in Latest FIFA Scandal
Q24N - The US Department of Justice indicted an additional sixteen Latin American soccer officials on corruption charges, shedding more light on a complex network involving multiple sports media companies that agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to the region's most powerful soccer brokers.
US officials...
El Salvador Ex-President To Trial On Corruption Charges
Q24N - Former El Salvador President Francisco Flores has been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges, adding to the lengthy list of current and former Latin American heads of state to come under judicial scrutiny in 2015.
On December 3, Judge Miguel Angel Garcia Argüello determined there was sufficient...