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Damion Downs scored in the sixth round of a shootout after three saves by Matt Freese, sending the U.S. to the semifinals of the Concacaf Gold Cup with a 3-2 win over Costa Rica after a 2-2 tie Sunday night. The U.S. advanced to a Wednesday matchup in St. Louis against Guatemala, which upset Canada on […]
The U.S. men’s national team has won three straight at the Gold Cup, but few are convinced. The victories were narrow, the performances uneven, and now the tournament gets real. Next up for the Americans: Costa Rica . . .
Davia Antonio, who left the United States for Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, 10 years ago, when she saw a Trump presidency as a real possibility, sums up the vibe in the town by explaining what happens when power goes out–a fairly regular occurrence in the still-developing nation. “We just go to the beach and wait […]
Óscar Arias Sánchez, the Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican president, said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked his visa to enter the country, with no reason given. A vocal critic of President Trump, Mr. Arias appears to be the most high profile in a string of individuals who have had their visas […]
MIRAMAR – Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow. The restrictions and lack of transparency are drawing criticism from human rights observers and generating increasingly testy […]
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)Source: post MIRAMAR, Panama (AP) […]
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Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow. In its first month, the Trump administration ordered the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant […]
MIRAMAR, Panama (AP) — Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow. The restrictions and lack of transparency are drawing criticism from human rights observers and generating […]
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica’s capital on Thursday, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it […]