Q Costa Rica

Q24N (Reuters) Nicaraguan police detained four more priests early Saturday, December 30, 2023, bringing the total number to 12 over the past three days, according to local media and a high-ranking member of the Catholic Church with knowledge of the matter. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has governed the Central […]

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 […]

Q24N (Dialogo Americas) The Russian government is financing with considerable resources an ongoing disinformation campaign in Latin America aimed at weakening support for Ukraine and propagating anti-U.S. and anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sentiment, the U.S. State Department said on November 7. llustration photograph of fake news, in Mulhouse, eastern […]

Q24N (Associated Press) Mexico and Venezuela announced Saturday that they have restarted repatriation flights of Venezuelans migrants in Mexico, the latest move by countries in the region to take on a flood of people traveling north to the United States. Migrants camp outside the Church of Santa Cruz y La […]

QCOSTARICA — Drug violence and homicides would continue to rise in 2024 if there is no change in legislation that allows hitmen (sicarios in Spanish) to be put behind bars, warns President Rodrigo Chaves. President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves (2022-2026). La Republica To achieve this, criminal regulations must be […]

QBLOGS — To answer this question correctly and objectively, I must put everything into its proper perspective. During the 40-plus years that I have lived in Costa Rica, it has been branded and to some extent labeled as a “tropical paradise.” Even the national motto, pura vida, reinforces this label. […]

QCOSTARICA — Starting January 1, the tolls on the Ruta 27 (San Jose – Caldera) have increased due to the ordinary quarterly adjustment stipulated in the concession contract, which responds to variations in the dollar exchange rate and the US Consumer Price Index (CPI). “This is the only adjustment of […]

QCOSTARICA — Costa Rica’s well known bureaucracy keeps the massive deployment of 5G technology frozen, and with this, puts investment, competitiveness and job creation at risk. So far, there is no defined date to hold the first auction among operators interested in deploying this technology in the country, much less, […]

QCOSTARICA — Earlier this month, on December 14, 2023, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly passed in second and final debate Ley No. 23,449 –  “Protección de las personas denunciantes y testigos de actos de corrupción contra represalias laborales” (Law for the protection of persons who report or witness to acts of […]

Q24N (VOA) Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro ordered his country’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom (UK) sent a warship toward Guyana’s territorial waters. The two South American neighbors are locked in a dispute over a large border region. In a nationally televised […]