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Sun, 18 Sep 2022 09:01:41 +0000
Orange alert declared throughout the country due to heavy rains
QCOSTARICA – Under a heavy downpour, President Rodrigo Chaves visited the flooded areas of Desamparados, south of San José, Saturday afternoon and ordered the evacuation of affected families. Shortly after, the Comisión Nacional de Emergencia...

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:46:51 +0000
Tragedy in Cambronero: 9 dead, 30 rescued after bus falls over cliff
QCOSTARICA – A bus with approximately 60 people on board was swept down an embankment into a 75-meter drop on the Interamerican Norte (Ruta 1), in the Santiago de San Ramón sector in Alajuela, known as the Cambronero. At 10 pm Saturday, the Co...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 13:41:42 +0000
Vaccination against COVID-19 is mandatory for all minors in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica will be the first country in Latin America to apply covid-19 vaccines to children from six months to five years. The Ministry of Health announced Monday that the country will receive 300,000 pediatric vaccines that will ...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 13:31:20 +0000
New cases of covid-19 continue to decline in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – New cases of Covid-19 continue to decline in Costa Rica, according to the most recent report from the Ministry of Health. During the week from September 4 to September 10, there were 1,988 fewer cases reported compared to the previ...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:50:45 +0000
WAPO: “Rodrigo Chaves follows in Trump’s footsteps in Costa Rica”
QCOSTARICA – Ronny Rojas, a Costa Rican journalist, who works for Noticias Telemundo and is a professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Journalism, posted on the Washington Post an opinion piece on Costa Rica’s Preside...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:48:26 +0000
WAPO: “Rodrigo Chaves sigue los pasos de Trump en Costa Rica”
QCOSTARICA – Ronny Rojas, a Costa Rican journalist, who works for Noticias Telemundo and is a professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Journalism, posted on the Washington Post an opinion piece on Costa Rica’s Preside...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:14:27 +0000
United States keeps Costa Rica on list of countries “not fight drug trafficking”
QCOSTARICA – United States president, Joe Biden, Joe Biden, ratified the designation of Costa Rica in the list of countries that do not cooperate with the fight against drug trafficking. The measure was published in the Memorandum on the Presid...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:45:20 +0000
New rise in interest raises impacts homes and businesses
QCOSTARICA (La Nacion) Since last December, the Central Bank began to adjust its monetary policy rate upwards to prevent the increase in inflation from continuing in the future, which was seen favorably given the current situation. However, as the in...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:25:59 +0000
Sale of the BCR requires 38 votes
QCOSTARICA – The Department of Technical Services of the Legislative Assembly confirmed that the bill to authorize the sale of the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) required a “qualified marjority”, that is the approval vote of 38 of the 55 ...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:05:38 +0000
Bill to delcare October 25 “day of the short person”
QCOSTARICA – A new bill seeks to declare October 25 as the “Día Nacional de Talla Baja”) (National Day of the Short Person”). “They (short people) require modifications in society so that they are guaranteed equal oppor...



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