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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 23:29:58 +0000
American tourist becomes the ten millionth passenger at the Guanacaste airport
QCOSTARICA – The 10 millionth passenger arrived this Wednesday at the Guanacaste Airport since it opening. Jake Hubbell, a 26-year-old American tourist from Colorado, arrived in Costa Rica for the wedding of his best friend. He landed at 11:13 ...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 23:06:36 +0000
Reduction in fuel prices approved: up to ¢156
QCOSTARICA – The regulatory authority, the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP), announced this Wednesday a reduction in fuel prices: ¢145 for a liter of super gasoline, ¢156 for a liter of regular, and ¢129 for diesel. W...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:15:50 +0000
Recreational cannabis offers “a world of opportunities” in tourism, employment, investment and health for Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – If Costa Rica decriminalizes recreational cannabis, it will have access to “a new world of benefits and opportunities for the country,” according to businessmen and experts consulted by La Republica. More tourists, a ne...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:45:39 +0000
Heavier than normal rains expected for September and October
QCOSTARICA – The months of September and October are the rainiest months of the rainy season. This year, it is expected that the rains will be far more intense than normal, mainly due to an above normal Atlantic hurricane season. For this, the ...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:15:13 +0000
Dekra’s election as operator of the RTV is appealed
QCOSTARICA – The Office of the Comptroller General of Costa Rica – Contraloría General de la República (CGR) – received an appeal against the election of the German company, Dekra, as operator of the vehicular inspection service (...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:00:29 +0000
Ligia Madrigal will try to become the first Costa Rican to reach the top of Mount Everest
QCOSTARICA – Athlete Ligia Madrigal hopes to become the first Costa Rican woman to reach, next May, the highest mountain in the world. Ligia Madrigal is a graphic designer by profession and from a very young age she has been practicing differen...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:28:53 +0000
Young woman and friends assaulted in Santa Ana wind farm
QCOSTARICA (La Nacion) Amanda Castro and her friends decided to spend Saturday afternoon at the wind farm (parque eólico) located in Santa Ana, San José. Like many others, she saw it as something normal and to get out of the routine. Once the walk ...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:51:02 +0000
Panama’s Border Crisis and U.S. Immigration Policy
Q REPORTS (American Affairs) Every night inside the chain link fence of Panama’s San Vicente Migration Reception Station near the Colombian border, up to a thousand or more migrants emerge from a sea of tents to board a caravan of sixty-seat buses ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:47:00 +0000
Daniel Ortega orders to start with the creation of nuclear facilities in Nicaragua
TODAY NICARAGUA – Daniel Ortega decreed this August 29 to create the Nicaraguan Commission for the Development of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes. In decree 16-2022 published in the Gaceta, Nicaragua’s official gazette, the regime took the fi...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:09:06 +0000
Venezuela, Colombia Restore Diplomatic Ties After Three-Year Break
Q24N (VOA) Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape. A new Colombian ambassador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in Caracas and said on Twitter: “Rel...



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