“Panama cannot end up becoming a black hole for deported migrants,” said Juan Pappier, deputy director of Human Rights Watch ...

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and phones, denying them access to legal services and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's new policies concerning unauthorized immigrants and mass deportation operations have caught some Latin American countries off guard, prompting them to improvise ways to ...

People with disabilities have seen two major policy wins in the Americas this fall, one in Mexico City and the other in Costa ...

With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border. See ...

The migrants from around the world did not know where they were or what would happen to them, according to an independent ...

Costa Rica joins a growing list of Latin American nations to serve as a stopover for migrants as Trump ’s administration ...

Costa Rica joins Panama in detaining deportees from the US in stopover back to their countries - A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors from various countries, is set to land in Cos ...

Since 2010, Costa Rica has enjoyed strong and stable economic growth - 3.8% in 2017. Exports of bananas, coffee, sugar, and beef are the backbone of its commodity exports. Various industrial and ...

President Donald Trump's decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico is more than just geographical nitpicking — it's a political move that shows how he wants to be perceived by the world, experts in ...

One day after he was named acting director of the United States Agency for International Development, Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised Costa Rica on Tuesday, holding it up as an example of a ...