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QCOSTARICA — 18% of businesses report having been harmed by the wave of crime that affects the country, as announced by the UCCAEP in its most recent Pulso Empresarial. (Business Pulse) survey. In that sense, 41% of businesses, that is, four out of every ten reported that the government is […]

QCOSTARICA — San Jose, Costa Rica, went from 108th to 70th place in the ranking of the most expensive cities in the world according to the The Economist. This earned the city recognition among the three cities that climbed the most positions, the other two being Santiago de Querétaro (from […]

QCOSTARICA –  Géiner Gómez is the agent of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) – Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigative Agency –  who was killed on October 5 while doing his job. From Semanario Universidad Given the pain and shock that this event produces, it is worth remembering the warning issued […]

QCOSTARICA — On average, six out of every ten homicides committed in Costa Rica are in one of the 12 most dangerous cantons in the country. The violence associated with drug trafficking and murders is linked to a small group of communities that recorded more than 20 homicides each between […]

QCOSTARICA — A new boost to foreign investment and employment, the elimination of uncertainty over the dollar exchange rate, thus favoring businesses and debtors, and the certainty that the State would not manipulate interest rates to keep down the inflation, would be some of the advantages for the Costa Rican […]

QCOSTARICA  –  Costa Rica celebrated on Friday, December 1,  the 75th anniversary of the Día de la Abolición del Ejército (Abolition of the Army Day), a landmark that put the country in the world spotlight as a reference of peace and democracy amid significant social and security challenges. Photograph of […]

Canada’s Air Transat has announced two routes that will be moved from a seasonal service to available year-round. These routes connect Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to the Guanacaste airport in Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) and San Salvador International (SAL) in El Salvador. On Thursday, Air Transat announced two […]

QCOSTARICA — Starting next year and for a period of 12 months, Costa Rican lawyer and judge Nancy Hernández will preside over the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Nancy Hernández, will preside over the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the period 2024-2025 Hérnandez will replace the Uruguayan Eduardo Pérez […]

QCOSTARICA — Costa Rica is currently facing a harsh reality: it is losing many of its young people to violent deaths such as homicides, traffic accidents and suicides. According to OIJ statistics, in 2022, a total of 432 people died by suicide, 114 (26.39%) being young people, specifically 95 men […]

QCOSTARICA — In an effort to revolutionize the aviation industry and offer sustainable transportation alternatives, Costa Rican businessman and aviation mechanic, Jesse Blenn, has carried out an innovative project that has also captured global interest; ultralight electric airships, the first in the world for ecological tourism. Proposed airships to be […]