SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica on Monday bestowed its highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele for his success in lowering levels of violence during a more than two-year campaign against powerful street gangs. Yet Bukele’s recognition brought controversy in Costa Rica, long known as Central America’s most stable democracy. “El Salvador’s rescue from those nefarious …
Severe flooding in Roswell, Chaves County, resulted in one death and 290 rescues. The National Weather Service reported 5.78 inches of rain on Saturday, breaking the previous daily record. Seven people were rescued after a car was swept away in floodwaters, and authorities are continuing search and rescue operations in the city.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer, but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state. Brazil’s Vanderson Chaves, left, and France’s Maxime Valet compete in men’s saber individual, category B preliminary wheelchair fencing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in Chiba, …
CHAVES, Brazil — Surfers from all over Brazil gathered this week at the Amazon River’s mouth to ride some of the world’s longest-lasting waves, when the incoming tide roars upriver in a broad band that can keep surfboards afloat for kilometers. Never try to conquer it, because that’s impossible,” Noélio Sobrinho, president of Brazilian Pororoca Surfing Association, said in an …
