Q COSTA RICA — A man with the last names Carranza Vega was sentenced to 36 years in prison after being found guilty of two counts of rape and one count of sexual abuse against two minors. The San Carlos Prosecutor’s Office reported that the s...

Q COSTA RICA — The confirmation of two cases of monkeypox — also known as Mpox (viruela símica in Spanish) in San José has led Costa Rican health authorities to activate surveillance protocols and emphasize that the disease does not pose a high...

Q COSTA RICA — The Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) or San José Airport will debut biometric gates to expedite passenger flow through immigration control. Aeris, the airport’s concessionaire, aims to have the system operational b...

Q COSTA RICA —  For three days, Johanna Fernández’s 71-year-old mother had to wait in a wheelchair despite having a broken arm and an infection called diverticulitis, for care at Calderón Guardia Hospital, After those three days of waiting...

Q COSTA RICA — A coordinated operation between authorities in Costa Rica, the United States, Colombia, and Panama resulted in the capture of two speedboats in the South Pacific and the seizure of 5.4 tons of drugs, as well as the arrest of six susp...