Q Costa Rica

QCOSTARICA (ScientificAmerican) Last month a team of scientists visited an ethereal nursery on the seafloor off Costa Rica, where they watched in awe as a new generation of deep-sea octopuses gently emerged from a quivering cluster of oblong, semitranslucent eggs. A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop […]

QCOSTAIRCA (ESO Science News) Nestled between two oceans and several tectonic plates, Costa Rica is known not only for its natural beauty and biodiversity, but also for its hazardous geology. A network of seismometers in Costa Rica recorded microseismicity following two large, distant earthquakes. Researchers have installed sensors throughout the […]

Q24N (iNews) Ecuador has been plunged into chaos after gang leaders broke out of prison and gunmen stormed a live TV broadcast, forcing terrified staff to the ground. People flee the premises of Ecuador’s TC television channel in Guayaquil, Ecuador after gunmen burst in on January 9, 2024, a day […]

Q REPORTS — Nicaragua has become a hot spot for migrants from around the world seeking to avoid a brutal trek through the Darien Gap jungle, connecting the American continents within Central America. A migrant looks out the window on a bus on her way north to Nicaragua and hopefully […]

QCOSTARICA — In the past year, Costa Rica has become much less hospitable to those looking for asylum. The government has put in place more rigorous policies that make it even more difficult for those seeking asylum to get jobs, and the situation has become worse for LGBTIQ+ seekers in […]

QCOSTARICA (Confidencial) Natalia had heard distant gunshots almost daily. Sometimes close by, but always at night. That midday, the blast interrupted the daytime rush and her hurried routine of getting her six-year-old daughter ready for preschool. Between January and September 2023, 71 Nicaraguans have been murdered in Costa Rica, experiencing […]

QCOSTARICA (Confidencial) As Costa Rica’s inhabitants become increasingly alarmed by the current unprecedented security crisis, President Rodrigo Chaves has not responded to the serious problem, says Laura Chinchilla, former president of Costa Rica (2010-2014) and also former Security Minister (1996-1998). Laura Chinchilla, for president of Costa Rica (2010-2014) In an […]

QCOSTARICA (Daily Mail) American actor and filmmaker. Bradley Cooper caused plenty of controversy around his new Netflix biopic Maestro, of which he stars in and directed. Biopic: Maestro tells the story of the behind the scenes Broadway legend Leonard Bernstein and his relationship with Felicia Montealegre, who stayed with him […]

QCOSTARICA — The immigration policies implemented by Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Honduras, as well as other Latin American nations, promoted by the United States, instead of reducing the number of migrants and asylum seekers, have forced people in transit to choose along irregular and extremely dangerous routes, as is […]

Q REPORTS (Vice.com) “Think of every non-organic pineapple you eat as taking years of your life.” This was not something I expected to hear in my first few days of my soul-nourishing Costa Rican holiday. I’d actually been planning to spend it largely sipping, um, piña coladas, but meeting the […]