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Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias on Tuesday commended the interim president of Honduras for saying he will reverse an emergency decree suspending civil liberties in his country.
Honduras' coup-installed government silenced two key dissident broadcasters on Monday just hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Nobel Peace laureate and Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said Tuesday that he has swine flu, showing that not even a head of state is safe from the virus that has caused worldwide concern but relatively few deaths.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega claimed Honduras' coup-installed government might try to provoke a border military incident "to distract attention" from international efforts to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Talks to resolve Honduras' political crisis deadlocked over a proposal to reinstate the ousted president and form a national unity government, leading the mediator to appeal for more flexibility when negotiations resume Sunday.
A Nobel Peace Prize-winner is taking on the formidable challenge of trying to forge a diplomatic solution to the leadership crisis in Honduras.
Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya paid tribute Saturday to a teenager killed during protests and expressed fear the interim government will drag out negotiations to resolve the crisis so it can remain in power through November elections.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is in Singapore to start talks on a bilateral free trade agreement.
Doctors have ordered Costa Rican President Oscar Arias not to talk for a month due to a cyst on his vocal cords, his office said Wednesday.
President Oscar Arias said Tuesday he will ask the U.S. to delay implementation of a free-trade agreement to give the country time to pass several necessary local laws.
Costa Ricans on Sunday appeared to narrowly vote in favor of joining the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., and President Oscar Arias declared victory for the pact. But with results so far contradicting most earlier polls, the opposition balked at conceding before a manual recount.
The chief rival of former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias acknowledged on Friday that Arias had won Costa Rica's razor-close Feb. 5 elections, and called on his countrymen to recognize the defeat.
Deal May Near on Zelaya's Return to Honduras Presidency"An international plan to return deposed President Manuel Zelaya to power suddenly gained new life Friday," October 2, 2009.
Defying U.S., Honduras won't let Zelaya return as president. By Tyler Bridges. Tuesday, 09.08.09CARACAS, Venezuela -- Honduras' de facto government remains dead-set against the return of Manuel Zelaya as the country's president, defying the Obama administration and disregarding the U.S. sanctions imposed last week against the poor Central American nation.
The Chavez-Obama Team? U.S. Steers Left on Honduras When Hugo Chávez makes a personal appeal to Washington for help, as he did 11 days ago, it raises serious questions about the signals that President Barack Obama is sending to the hemisphere's most dangerous dictator.
Democracy hangs by a thread in HondurasThe right-wing coup d'état is faltering, but its supporters have powerful friends in Washington. Hugh O'Shaughnessy reports
Honduran Rivals See U.S. Intervention as Key to Ending CrisisWhen President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica set out to find a negotiated solution to the Honduran political crisis, he hailed it as an opportunity for Central Americans to show they could resolve their own problems, and he established some simple ground rules.
Stalemate Ahead of Honduras TalksThe BBC's Stephen Gibbs, in Honduras, says Costa Rican President Oscar Arias faces a huge challenge as mediator.
Leaked Costa Rican memo exposes how CAFTA was sold to the publicHere's an internal Costa Rica government memo about their campaign for CAFTA that was leaked and is now in the latest issue of Harper's. Any connoisseur of government lying should read it: -- Jonathan Schwarz, A Tiny Revolution
Costa Rica Pulls Out of School of the AmericasCosta Rican President Oscar Arias vowed on Wednesday to stop sending police to train at a U.S. facility criticized for a history of producing soldiers who went on to violate human rights.
Editorial:«Human rights - Principles defeat politics at the UN»«In the global struggle for the advancement of human rights, the United Nations has reached a defining moment», by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jimmy Carter, Oscar Arias, Kim Dae-Jung, Shirin Ebadi and Desmond Tutu.
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