Q Costa Rica

Q24N (HAVANA TIMES) Many professionals are leaving Cuba in search of a better life, and you can deduce that the brain drain is especially dangerous right now. A brain drain, or talent drain, is the loss of professionals and scientists with a university education who decide to emigrate to try […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Q24N (Confidencial) The worsening police harassment pushed former student leader Justina Orozco to decide to leave Nicaragua after enduring five years of repression in the country. She thought she could leave legally, since she hadn’t participated in any protest activities for several years. However, when she reached El Guasaule on […]

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 […]