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QCOSTARICA — A total of 5,793 people died between January 2023 and January 2025 while waiting for surgery in various specialties at the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) – the state Social Security Fund, in charge of most of the nation’s public health sector, according to letter “GM-2334-2025” from […]

Q24N (EFE) El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele proposed on Friday to raise the minimum wage for workers by 12% starting in mid-2025, for which he sent a proposal to the intersectoral National Minimum Wage Council. Bukele made the announcement in a post on X, in which he indicated that this […]

QCOSTARICA — San José, the capital city of Costa Rica, is one of the 20 smartest cities in Latin America according to the Cities in Motion 2025 Index published last month, a research platform launched jointly by the Center for Globalization and Strategy and IESE Business School’s Department of Strategy. […]

QCOSTA RICA — Even though the official start of the 2026 presidential campaign has not yet begun and the current President Rodrigo Chaves is ineligible to run, the official candidate from the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) is working to gain support for his party. The poorly concealed dislike between Rodrigo […]

QCOSTARICA (EFE) The reform to Nicaragua’s Political Constitution, which transforms the state, eliminates the balance of power, and grants total power to the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who now serve as co-presidents, pursues “family succession,” argued the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies of Central America (CETCAM) […]

QCOSTARICA — The dollar exchange rate and the tariffs recently imposed by the United States government on all imports are taking their toll on tourism in Costa Rica. This complex international situation is compounded by a domestic landscape marked by insecurity and a decline in competitiveness, which has triggered a […]

QCOSTARICA — The cantons with the best public roads do not necessarily have the smoothest traffic in their communities. Having good roads is a helpful condition, but it is not enough to avoid traffic jams, according to the 2024 National Competitiveness Index (Índice de Competitividad Nacional 2024). This is demonstrated […]

QCOSTARICA — The national weather service, the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), is forecasting tne rainy season starts today, April 22, with transition to May 1, in the Central Valley. Do you know where and when it begins in your region? Here’s the scoop. – Advertisement – The Comision Nacional de […]

QCOSTARICA – Monday afternoon, at 2:14 pm, the Poás Volcano registered a major eruption. The explosion generated a column of gas and ash that rose considerably above the crater, according to reports from the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI) – Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica. […]