Costa Rica to accept 25 ‘third country’ deportees from US every week

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries.” The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas … Read more

Costa Rica shutters its embassy in Cuba and orders diplomats to leave

Costa Rica on Wednesday closed its embassy in Havana and told Cuba’s communist government to pull its diplomats from San José.  “We have to clean out communists from the hemisphere,” Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared after the diplomatic rupture. The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. responded to the closure by alleging in a social … Read more