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A bus carrying migrants from Central Asia and India, deported from the United States, arrives at the Juan Santamaría International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz, File)

Costa Rica will give migrants deported from the US permits to stay in the country for 3 months

Costa Rica says it will allow some of the approximately 200 migrants deported from the United States and held in detention in the Central American country to stay and move about freely for three months.
 
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, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz, File)

Legal group sues Costa Rica alleging the rights of 81 children deported by Trump were violated

 
Prisoners look out from their cell as the Costa Rica Justice and Peace minister tours the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Costa Rica looks to El Salvador’s gang crackdown for path to stopping violence

 
A moment of silence is observed for Miller Gardner, son of former New York Yankees player Brett Gardner, before the start of an opening-day baseball game between the Yankees and the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause of death for former Yankees OF Brett Gardner’s teenage son

 
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and two-time Costa Rican President Oscar Arias looks at the media during the opening ceremony of the XV World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the University in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Ex-Costa Rica president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa

 

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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

 
Candidate to the presidency of the International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch makes statements during a break of the 144th session, which will elect the new IOC President, in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

On eve of Olympic election, IOC presidential candidate Samaranch plays down emerging favorite status

 
A boat transporting migrants departs the Caribbean coastal village of Miramar, Panama, for the Colombian border, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, as migrants return from southern Mexico after abandoning hopes of reaching the U.S. in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Costa Rica and Panama coordinate to move southbound migrants

 
Venezuelan migrant Naomi Diaz sits on a boat departing from Panama's Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by President Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘black hole’ for migrants and deportees from US, observers warn

 
Venezuelan migrant Gabriela Villanueva holds her daughter as she waits to board a boat to Colombia on Panama's Caribbean coastal island of Gardi Sugdub, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, after turning back from southern Mexico where they gave up hopes of reaching the U.S. amid President Trump's crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations

 
Venezuelan migrant Gabriela Villanueva holds her daughter, in Chepo, Panama, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, during a stop on their journey from southern Mexico to Puerto de Cartí on Panama's Caribbean coast, seeking a boat to Colombia from where she will return to Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

8-year-old boy dies as boat carrying ‘reverse flow’ of migrants capsizes off Panama coast

 
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

 
AP journalist Reid G. Miller speaks on a phone while sitting barefoot in the mud in a U.N. compound in November 1994, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Miller, a longtime AP journalist in many places around the world, died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Tina Susman)

Reid G. Miller, longtime AP international correspondent and editor, dies at 90

 
Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

 
Migrants eat lunch at the Peace Oasis of the Holy Spirit Amparito shelter in Villahermosa, Mexico, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

Trump’s foreign aid freeze guts grassroots groups helping migrants in Latin America

 
An endangered Geoffrey's spider monkey that had been rescued and living in the care of the Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary in Dominical, Costa Rica, on March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien, File)

AI will eavesdrop on world’s wildest places to track and help protect endangered wildlife

 

Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights

 
FILE - Opposition leader and former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles attends an event in which the Primero Justicia party nominated him as its presidential candidate for the opposition primary in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Human rights court rules against Venezuela in 2013 election case

 
FILE - Exiled Nicaraguans released from a Nicaraguan jail wave from a bus after arriving at the airport in Guatemala City, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Stripped of citizenship, these Nicaraguans live in limbo scattered across the world

 

Costa Rican rescue teams find one survivor after plane crash leaves 5 people dead

 

Small plane carrying six people crashes near Costa Rica’s capital

 

Regional court blames Guatemala for the disappearance of 4 human rights activists in 1989

 
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

 

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, no serious damage reported

 

Costa Rica arrests 5 child welfare agency officials on charges they trafficked children for adoption

 
Costa Rica defender Francisco Calvo (15) celebrates his goal during a Copa America Group D soccer match between Costa Rica and Paraguay, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Costa Rica eliminated from the Copa America despite beating Paraguay 2-1 in group stage finale

 

Brazil held to 0-0 draw by Costa Rica in a stunner to open Copa America group play

 
PSG's goalkeeper Keylor Navas embraces PSG's Goncalo Ramos after the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Le Havre at the Parc des Princes in Paris, Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Navas announces his retirement from the Costa Rica national team after 16 years and 3 World Cups

 
United States players celebrate their win over Canada during the SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

US women’s soccer to play Olympic send-off match in Washington in July

 
Canada forward Alphonso Davies (19) jogs up field after taking a shot in the second half of a CONCACAF Nations League Play-In soccer match against Trinidad And Tobago, Saturday, March 23, 2024, in Frisco, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Canada and Costa Rica complete Copa América field by winning qualifiers

 
FILE - Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega poses for a photo during the ALBA Summit at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. Nicaragua’s government has shut down the country’s scouting organization and seven other nongovernmental organizations, state media La Gaceta reported Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, the latest in an ongoing crackdown that has seen the government toss out religious orders, charities and civic groups. (Adalberto Roque, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nicaragua shuts down scouting association and several other social and religious groups

 

Authorities locate a missing Roman Catholic cardinal in Panama

 
FILE - Anna Moriah Wilson's photo is displayed on the screen as state attorney Rickey Jones addresses the jury during the sentencing portion of Kaitlin Armstrong's murder trial, Nov. 17, 2023, at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas. Federal investigators say a local want ad for a yoga instructor in Costa Rica helped them capture Armstrong, the woman who killed rising pro cyclist Wilson in 2022. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool, File)

Killer of pro cyclist Mo Wilson was captured with help of want ad for yoga instructor in Costa Rica

 
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