On Wednesday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hear the case of Beatriz, who died at age 21 after being denied an abortion. EL PAÍS looks at the other women who have lost their lives due to the region’s restrictive rules
The program that has paid landowners for 25 years not to cut down trees depends almost entirely on fuel tax revenue, which stands to fade away by 2050
Donald Trump pursued a similar ban in 2019 but a federal appeals court prevented it from taking effect
The first lady will highlight issues around empowering women and young people and food insecurity in the Horn of Africa
Another 23 people were injured in the accident, which took place during a road trip between shelters. The victims had crossed the Darien Gap from Colombia
A Costa Rica newspaper reported that hundreds of people have seen the aircraft in the sky in recent hours
The millionaire businessman and former army chief has presented himself as a strategist and conciliatory figure within the Sandinista regime, despite disagreements with his brother, President Daniel Ortega
Authorities from three countries continue to search for a boat that disappeared on December 17. Most of the passengers are Venezuelans
The territorial waters of the Central American country, renowned as a leader in environmental protection, are the focus of an increasingly heated conflict involving conservationists, fishermen and drug traffickers
The National Assembly has decided to do away with the traditional method of calculating age, by which babies are born one year old, to standardize the country’s legal and administrative system
