Q Costa Rica

QCOSTARICA — It will be weeks, if approved, that diesel fuels will drop in price, while super and regular gasoline will increase. Costa Rica’s refinery that refines nothing, the Refinadora Costarricense del Petróleo (RECOPE), presented on Friday a new adjustment in the price of fuels that will is now subject […]

QCOSTARICA — Despite the priority given to a bill to try adolescents as adults in homicide cases, the figure handled by the Ministerio Publico (Prosecutor’s Office) shows a relatively low participation of them between the years 2020 and 2023. “We have problems that some of the most notorious and dangerous […]

QCOSTARICA — Created in 1985, the whereabouts of the Fondo de Garantía de Depósitos (Deposit Guarantee Fund), with a reported purse, in 2019, of US$30 million dollars, is now unknown.fun The fund with a similar origin to that of the Deposit Guarantee Fund currently held by the Central Bank of […]

QCOSTARICA — Investing is a risky business. These risks could include disappointing earnings, changes in leadership, outdated products, or wrongdoing within the company. In Costa Rica, the perceived failure of financial institution regulators. A count of the people affected by the closures of financial institutions in Costa Rica during the […]

Victims of trafficking in the form of child labor exploitation is on the rise in Costa Rica, Paula Aragón, from the Fiscalía contra la Trata (Prosecutor’s Office against Trafficking) revealed on Monday. Aragón said that, so far this year, they have at least four open cases. Domestic work continues to […]

Q24N (Confidencial) The Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime arrested nine priests in just ten days, between July 26 and August 5, 2024. Of those arrested, seven belonged to the Diocese of Matagalpa and one to the Diocese of Estelí, which are administered by Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, released from prison […]

Tuesday morning, different police forces carried out a series of raids to dismantle a criminal gang dedicated to migrant trafficking. The efforts extended to different points of the country, such as the Southern Zone, the provinces of San José, Heredia, and Alajuela, in particular in the Los Chiles sector, the […]

QCOSTARICA — Despite breaking diplomatic relations with Venezuela and joining the group of countries that requested economic sanctions against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, the government of Rodrigo Chaves assures that this will not affect commercial ties with that nation. According to Manuel Tovar, head of Costa Rica’s Foreign Trade […]

QCOSTARICA — Amid the growing political crisis in Venezuela, the Costa Rican government has extended an offer of political asylum to opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado, who could be arrested by the government of Nicolás Maduro. This measure responds to the accusations and persecutions directed against […]

QCOSTARICA — With a vote of 39 legislators, the Legislative Assembly approved in first debate the reform to Article 32 of the Constitution to allow the extradition of Costa Ricans. This reform would allow Ticos (Costa Ricans), born or naturalized, to be extradited to other jurisdictions, if requested, for the […]