Q24N — The director of the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), Randall Zúñiga, explained that the criminal group investigated as part of the “Madre Patria” case would have illegally taken over three bus routes, with the complicity and help of an official from the Transportation Council Public (CTP) and five traffic […]
Daily Archives: June 27, 2024
QCOSTARICA — Every two years, in Costa Rica, there is a financial shock: it is the average of interventions of supervised financial entities, which have ended in all cases with the closure of the entity whose economic health is under review. Since the earthquake that the intervention of Banco Anglo […]
The Canadian mining company Infinito Gold has decided to drop a claim against Costa Rica for the failed Crucitas project in Cutris de San Carlos. The official website of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) states that, on June 14, 2024, “the parties filed a request for […]
Q24N (EFE) The Panama Canal announced that starting August 5, daily ship transits will increase to 35, thanks to the arrival of the rains and after the restrictions implemented since last year due to the severe drought. Under optimal conditions, the average daily crossing through the canal, which connects the […]
Q24N (VOA/AP) LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in an apparent coup attempt, but President Luis Arce vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to stand down. The soldiers pulled back along […]
Q24N — The former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) was sentenced this Wednesday to 45 years in prison and five more years of supervised release by a New York court for several crimes related to drug trafficking and the use of weapons, thus free of the life sentence […]
Bolivian forces arrested the army commander who led a coup attempt against President Luis Arce on Wednesday, shortly after rebel soldiers besieged the government headquarters for hours and tried to break down one of its doors. At the end of a frantic day, General Juan José Zúñiga was arrested outside […]