The International Court of Justice (ICJ) this week decided to join the two cases concerning the border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica “in conformity with the principle of the sound administration of justice and with the need for judicial...

(posted Jan. 21)- A new study by Nicaraguan investigators finds that the newly constructed Costa Rican highway (Juan Rafael Mora Porras Highway—Route 1856) paralleling Nicaragua’s San Juan River is affecting the natural habitat of some 600 species of animals. “The...

(posted Dec. 10, 2:00 p.m.)- Nicaragua’s newest river-dredging machine, which was christened the “Doña Laura” in mock homage to Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, has been given a more diplomatically correct name at the behest of President Daniel Ortega. Edén...

(posted June 5, 7:00 p.m.)- A week after President Daniel Ortega declared a “Yellow Alert”—the maximum level of environment alert— along the Río San Juan in response to damages caused by Costa Rica’s addlebrained and slapdash riverbank highway, Costa Rica...

Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope just returned from Nicaragua where we covered the historic grandeur that was Granada and the natural glory that is the Reserva Biológica Indio Maíz. The more than 1,500-square-mile reserve is located in the southeast corner of the...

The Government of Costa Rica today sent a letter to Nicaragua’s Foreign Ministry expressing its “most energetic protest” against the Sandinista government’s dispatch of more Sandinista Youth to occupy a zone of disputed borderland claimed by both countries. Costa Rica...

(posted March 29, 12:33 p.m.)- Nicaragua’s National Recycling Forum and the Nicaraguan Foundation for Sustainable Development (Fundenic-SOS) on Wednesday presented the Central American Court of Justice with a documented proof to back its allegations that Costa Rica has caused serious...

President Daniel Ortega and Japanese Ambassador Jiro Shibasaki trekked to the Río San Juan Wednesday afternoon to lay the ceremonial cornerstone to the $30 million, Japanese-funded Santa Fé Bridge, which will cross the Nicaraguan river and connect to Costa Rica....

(posted Jan. 30, 3:30 p.m.)-Over the course of the past year, the government of Nicaragua has sent 3,600 Sandinista Youth (JS) to the southern border to occupy a spit of disputed territory and plant trees along the banks the Río...

(posted Jan. 18, 6:15 am) - Costa Rica is rejecting a resolution passed yesterday by the Central American Court of Justice demanding that country halt construction on a 160-KM border highway that parallels the Nicaragua’s Rio San Juan on the...