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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump is suffering from a mental breakdown after launching, alongside Israel, the war in the Middle East. In his most recent public appearances, Ortega had kept a more measured tone about Trump following the war unleashed on February 28 by Israeli and U.S. attacks against Iran, which has left thousands dead, mainly in Iran and Lebanon. “The war imposed in the way the current president of the United States is imposing it is typical of someone who has lost his mind and believes he can do anything, any kind of barbarity,” Ortega said. “It is a problem, we might say, of mental derangement, as we say here. He is not in his right mind,” he added during an event in Managua broadcast by pro-government media. Ortega and co-president Rosario Murillo , his wife, held a rally in the capital “for Peace and Reconciliation” to mark the 2018 opposition protests, which they say were an attempted coup backed by Washington. The 8...

Costa Rican police detained 19 Nicaraguan nationals in irregular migratory status during operations in Crucitas de Cutris over the past week, in the latest sign that authorities are keeping up pressure on illegal gold mining along the northern border. Thirteen of those detained were found allegedly extracting gold in tunnels and other sites, while six more were intercepted as they headed toward extraction areas. The 13 men caught at extraction points were turned over to the San Carlos Flagrancy Prosecutor’s Office and could face proceedings under Costa Rica’s Mining Code. The other six were sent to Migration Police to be sent back to Nicaragua. Police also seized and destroyed mining tools and equipment on judicial orders. During the same operations, officers confiscated 30 sacks of mineral sediment that were allegedly about to be moved out of the area, leading to the arrest of a Costa Rican driver. A separate Nicaraguan suspect was detained on suspicion of distributing drugs after ...

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Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber has ordered the suspension of tree-felling permits, construction authorizations, and density modifications tied to a hotel development in the Papagayo Gulf Tourist Complex, pending the resolution of a constitutional challenge that accuses regulators of fast-tracking the project without adequate environmental review. The decision was handed down by investigating magistrate Fernando Cruz in the context of a constitutional challenge filed by attorney Juan Pablo Xatruch Ovares against the regulation that governs real estate development in the tourist hub — the same regulation that allowed logging permits to be granted for the hotel project. “As the investigating judge, I adopted the requested precautionary measure, which aligns with the conditions and characteristics of the case, suspending any activity related to this hotel development or the felling of trees in that area,” Cruz explained. “Until a decision is reached, to prevent irreparable harm in t...

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The sexual harassment case that has dominated the final weeks of Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly reached its final stage on Friday, though with an uncertain outcome. The special commission that investigated the complaint against Deputy Fabricio Alvarado presented three final reports: two recommending sanctions against the Nueva República lawmaker, and a third that clears him of responsibility. The reports recommending sanctions were signed by Social Christian deputy Alejandro Pacheco — who chaired the commission — and independent deputy Johana Obando, while the third was presented by Alvarado’s own bench colleague, Olga Morera. The argument for not recommending a sanction is that the case is already moving through the criminal courts. A case with high stakes The investigation stems from a complaint filed by former deputy Marulín Azofeifa, who has alleged a series of inappropriate acts that occurred during the previous four-year term, when she held a Nueva República seat. According...