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Fri, 21 May 2021 15:38:01 +0000
How well are we really doing, covid wise?
RICO’s DIGEST (OPINION) Here’s some food for thought. Looking over the covid news for Argentina this week, the worst of the worst covid wise in this part of the world. Yes, even worse than Brazil*. Argentina this past week had a 7 day ave...

Fri, 21 May 2021 13:41:36 +0000
Every 40 hours a street stalker is arrested in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – Between January 1 and May 20 of this year (140 days), 84 people have been arrested for street sexual harassment. The figure is equivalent to one arrest every 40 hours. It is, in its entirety, men who corner or chase their victims, ...

Fri, 21 May 2021 12:59:02 +0000
Naked, women protested against the Police for reports of sexual violence
QCOLOMBIA – At least 18 complaints of sexual violence allegedly committed by the police have been reported, mostly on social networks, within the framework of the protests of the national strike, according to the organization Temblores. The most re...

Fri, 21 May 2021 12:58:54 +0000
Argentina hit rock bottom: it is the country with the most deaths per million inhabitants
Q24N – The website Our World in Data confirmed that in Argentina there are 16.46 deaths per million inhabitants, becoming the country with the most deaths, surpassing Brazil, which led the list with an average of 11.82. On Wednesday, May 20, th...

Fri, 21 May 2021 11:56:00 +0000
Nicaragua: “The Truth is Under Assault”
(CONFIDENCIAL) The Ortega regime’s police raided this Thursday, May 20th, the recording studio of the Esta Semana and Esta Noche online TV programs, directed by journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro. The staff had temporarily settled in a small space...

Fri, 21 May 2021 11:15:08 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction
Today, Friday, May 21, only odds can circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. Starting Wednesday, May 19 and to May 30, daytime driving is restricted to one day only...

Fri, 21 May 2021 00:26:23 +0000
Business heats up again with the return of sex workers in Amsterdam after six ‘boring’ months off due to Covid
Q MAGAZINE – Sex workers returned to the red light district in Amsterdam on Wednesday, after six “boring” months of no activity, as the government began to ease sanitary restrictions. The women can already be seen in their canal-sid...

Fri, 21 May 2021 00:05:16 +0000
Woman records UFO in Plaza González Víquez
QCOSTARICA – At dawn on Sunday, May 16, Costa Rica was visited by a UFO. At least that is what Dayana Montreal, who was watching television in her apartment, near Plaza González Víquez, in San José, recorded with her cellphone phone when som...

Thu, 20 May 2021 23:11:25 +0000
Tody’s Covid News: 40 deaths in last 24 hours, ICU at record levels
QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Health reported 40 deaths associated with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The number is the second highest so far; the highest was 48 two days ago. Tuesday, May 18. That is a death every 36 minutes in the last 24 hou...

Thu, 20 May 2021 14:00:41 +0000
Second doses of Pfizer vaccines will be 12 weeks apart
QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Health announced Tuesday, May 18, that people who get the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 will no longer get their second dose 21 days (3 weeks) after the first, but rather up to 12 weeks. Daniel Salas, Minister of ...



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