Laura Chinchilla, 50, candidate of the National Liberation Party (PLN) won the elections and is the new president of Costa Rica.

This Sunday the people of Costa Rica, will select the future president of the country and 57 representatives.

Diego Maradona returned from his two-month suspension to coach Argentina to a 3-2 win over Costa Rica in a friendly match. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

After two months of a forced vacation, Argentina’s coach can work again. He was banned by FIFA after the incident in the press conference after the match against Uruguay in Montevideo that gave Argentina the ticket to the World Cup. He was not able to do any activity realted to football.

Uruguay secured its place at the 2010 World Cup with a hard fought win over Costa Rica as tempers boiled over in tempestuous conditions in the second leg in Montevideo.

On Saturday, Uruguay faced Costa Rica in San Jose for the playoff game and thus the chance to be in the 2010 World Cup.

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu, the government said in a televised statement on Tuesday.

A new proposal to end Honduras’ political crisis would restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya in two days.

Negotiators for Honduras’ interim government said they didn’t have the authority to accept the Costa Rican president’s plan that calls for the return of Manuel Zelaya.

Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, received in his house the commissions named by both deposed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and Roberto Micheletti, temporary president.

Manuel Zelaya threatened to take “other measurements” if the negotiations for his restitution in the charge fail this week.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya ended on Thursday his meeting with his Costa Rican counterpart Oscar Arias. On the other hand, Honduras’ interim top diplomat, who insulted U.S. President Barack Obama, has quit his post as foreign minister.

Both men had come here to discuss ways of breaking the standoff at the behest of President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped guide Central America out of its cold war conflicts.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that Costa Rican President Oscar Arias will mediate the standoff between the new regime in Honduras and deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said: “I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert.”

A 53 year old man died today in Costa Rica because of the flu A and turned into the first mortal victim that provokes the illness in Central America, reported an official source.