JAVIER CÓRDOBA

New York Yankees' Brett Gardner walks off the field after being defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays in a baseball game on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
Costa Rican authorities rule out asphyxiation as the cause of death of Brett Gardner’s teenage son
Costa Rican authorities announced Tuesday that they will continue to investigate the cause of death of the teenage son of former Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner as they ruled out asphyxiation as the reason.
 
A plane carrying migrants from Central Asia and India, deported from the United States, arrives at Juan Santamaría International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)
Facing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras join Panama as stopovers for foreign deportees
A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries have climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica’s capital, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration
 
Mexico's head coach Miguel Herrera celebrates after Giovani dos Santos scored the opening goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the Netherlands and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, June 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Costa Rica hires Miguel Herrera as coach for 2026 World Cup qualifiers
Former Mexico coach Miguel Herrera has been hired as coach of the Costa Rica men’s national team. The 56-year-old Herrera led Mexico to the 2014 World Cup. He was appointed late Tuesday by the Costa Rican soccer federation.
 
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, left, receives the Costa Rica's highest honor from President Rodrigo Chaves at the Presidential Palace in San Jose, Costa Rica, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)
Costa Rica bestows highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Bukele for security gains
Costa Rica has bestowed its highest diplomatic honor on visiting El Salvador President Nayib Bukele for his success in lowering levels of violence during a more than two-year campaign against powerful street gangs.
 
FILE - Pedestrians walk past in San Jose, Costa Rica, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice reported on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, that it modified a piece of civil code originally mandating that the paternal surname precede the maternal surname. The names no longer have to be written in that order. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)
Many Costa Ricans welcome court ruling that they don’t have to use their father’s surname first
Many Costa Ricans are welcoming a ruling this week by the country’s Supreme Court of Justice eliminating the requirement that people use their father’s surname before their mother’s on identification documents.
 
Nicaragua opponent exiled in Costa Rica wounded in shooting
Costa Rican officials say that a member of the Nicaraguan opposition has been shot seven times and is in serious condition in Costa Rica.
 
A migrant looks out the window on a bus on her way north to Nicaragua and hopefully to the Mexico-United States border, in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Panama and Costa Rica launched a plan to quickly bus thousands of migrants through Panama to the Costa Rican border, as the countries continue to grapple with the increasing number of migrants. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez)
Central America scrambles as the international community fails to find solution to record migration
Panama and Costa Rica have set up a bus system to speed the flow of migrants from the Darien Gap to Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua.