At least 36 people were arrested this Tuesday in Costa Rica in a vast police operation, including judges, lawyers, and two Spanish ringleaders of the gang dedicated to property theft and money laundering through cryptocurrencies, authorities reported. The director of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), Randall Zúñiga, said in a […]
Monthly Archives: June 2024
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On Friday, Costa Rica heads to Arizona to face an in-form Colombia in the Copa América. Colombia sits at the top of Group D after the first round of matches, thanks to their 2-1 victory over Paraguay, with first-half goals from Daniel Muñoz and Jefferson Lerma. But heading into matchday […]
Q24N (DW) Authorities in Bolivia put down a short-lived coup attempt on Wednesday that saw armored vehicles ramming the door of the presidential palace. Soldiers were also seen entering the building around 4 p.m. local time (2000 GMT/UTC). They later withdrew following condemnation from President Luis Arce and other officials. […]
A Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked the conditional release of prominent journalist Jose Ruben Zamora, a stark critic of the government of former right-wing president Alejandro Giammattei. Special prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche, who is under US sanctions for alleged corruption, said in a video message that the court had withdrawn […]
QCOSTARICA — The situation of the Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de los Servidores Públicos, R.L. (Coopeservidores) – savings and loans – has put on the table a mirage that all people who invest see as a reality. And, since there are regulatory and supervisory entities such as the Superintendencia […]
QCOSTARICA — Every week, the Policia Municipal de San Jose (San Jose Municipal Police) detect dozens of children begging in the streets of the capital city, many of them accompanied by their families. This problem had been solved before the pandemic, more than two years ago, due to an arduous […]
Q24N – Despite exalting in recent months the content of a Bank of America report on the national economy, President Rodrigo Chaves this Wednesday discredited an unfavorable part contained in a new report from that same financial house, which warns of the Government’s intentions to reduce the controls of the […]
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 […]
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 […]