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Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:01:06 +0000Alejandra Guzmán: “I am a devastated mother, I have never experienced something so ugly”
Q MAGAZINE – Alejandra Guzmán assures that she is devastated with everything that has been said about the privacy of her family in recent days. The “queen of hearts” (“reina de corazones”) gave an interview to the program M...
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:08:59 +0000
ICE to start charging at fast-charging stations for electric cars
QCOSTARICA – The honeymoon of free charges at Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) fast-charging stations is over for owners of electric car, as they will start paying to recharge their vehicles’ batteries. So far, ICE has provid...
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:42:53 +0000
New surveillance cameras seek to reduce assaults on the General Cañas
QCOSTARICA – The Municipality of Heredia will place four surveillance cameras on a section of the General Cañas highway that has registered an escalation of assaults since the end of last year. The local government’s plan is to cover the...
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:21:01 +0000
Today’s coronavirus news: ICUs overloaded, occupancy for critically ill with covid-19 reaches 85%
QCOSTARICA – The number of patients with covid-19 is advancing by leaps and bounds. This Monday, 571 people were hospitalized, 263 in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The maximum capacity at the moment in the hospitals of the Caja Costarricense de...
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:17:38 +0000
San Jose as seen from Cartago
The capital seen from the north of Cartago. Photo: Rafael Pacheco
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:52:51 +0000
A Cuba Without a Castro? A Country Steps Into the Unknown.
Q REPORTS (NY Times) When Raúl Castro retired as Cuba’s top leader Monday, he left a warning for a nation increasingly divided over the legacy of its Communist revolution: The choice at hand is continuity of the revolution’s ideals, or defeat. S...
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:40:12 +0000
President Miguel Díaz-Canel is the new leader of the Communist Party of Cuba after the departure of Raúl Castro
Q24N (La Habana) Cuba turned the page on the governments of the Castro brothers, with the retirement on Monday of Raúl Castro, 89, in a symbolic transition, but one that does not change the political line of the country, one of the last communists i...
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:21:29 +0000
KLM announces reactivation of flights to Costa Rica starting June 29
QCOSTARICA – KLM announced, this Monday, April 19, that it will reactivate its flights between the Netherlands and Costa Rica, starting on June 29. The airline will make the Amsterdam-San José-Liberia-Amsterdam route on Tuesdays, Thursdays and...
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:12:07 +0000
Costa Rica’s Minister of Health first to be vaccinated with Astra Zeneca vaccine
QCOSTARICA – This Monday, April 29, 2021, Costa Rica began vaccinations with the Astra Zeneca vaccine with the Minister of Health, Daniel Salas, being first person in the country to receive a dose. A few days ago Dr. Salas stated that he would ...
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:05:44 +0000
Woman crashes head-on with tanker truck. Did she foresee her own death?
QCOSTARICA – Emily Vega Espinoza, 43, tragically lost her life when the car she was driving crashed head-on into a tanker truck. The incident occurred just before 2:00 am, Sunday, April 18, in the town of El Chorro, in La Cuesta de Corredores, ...