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...

(posted Dec. 20, 7:15 p.m.)- Costa Rica today denounced an alleged incursion by 15 Nicaraguan soldiers “approximately 1 kilometer into Costa Rican territory,” where Nica troops allegedly “threatened” Costa Rican police officers patrolling the area. The incident occurred Dec. 19...

Putting concerns for Mother Nature before the politics of motherland, a group of Costa Rican activists is challenging their government’s hasty efforts to build a border highway paralleling Nicaragua’s Rio San Juan. The Tico environmentalists filed an injunction before Costa...

Centuries’ old border tensions between Costa Rica and Nicaragua are flaring again in time for the holidays. This time, it’s over allegations that Costa Rica is attempting to destroy Nicaragua’s Río San Juan by building a highway paralleling the river,...

The government of Costa Rica says it has no reason to congratulate President Daniel Ortega on his reelection, and says Nicaragua’s elections are an “internal matter” for its neighbor to deal with on its own. For the first time in...