Q COSTA RICA — Starting today, Monday, November, 2, 2026, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) 2027 derecho de circulación—vehicle registration/circulation tax payment—period begins, with a key change: for the first time, the vehicle regist...

Q COSTA RICA — All travelers flying to the United States or transiting through the country must submit a declaration confirming that they have not been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the 21 days before their flight. The requirement,...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rican health data point to a serious mental-health burden among older adults. In the first 38 weeks of 2026, authorities recorded 1,656 cases of severe mental disorders in this age group, including 1,218 depression diagnoses an...

Q COSTA RICA — A Costa Rican court has ordered a 22-year-old woman, identified by her surname, Ortiz, to remain in preventive detention (remand) for one year while prosecutors investigate the killing of U.S. businessman Marc Walter Fleming. The ord...

Q COSTA RICA — After the regulatory authority approved a sharp fuel-price increase last Friday, many people are asking when the new prices will take effect. They become effective at midnight on the day they are published in the government’s offic...

Q COSTA RICA — Constitutional Court Justice Jorge Araya stated that Costa Rica has shifted from being a country viewed with admiration to one that the world now views with concern. He made these remarks on Thursday, following his swearing-in by the...

RICO’s Q — The piece ¿Se terminó el gobierno de Laura Fernández? (Is Laura Fernández’s Government Over?) argues that shelving the Tratado Transpacífico (Trans-Pacific Partnership) is not, by itself, a coherent economic strategy. The au...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica’s newly approved fuel-price increase will take effect after the resolution is published in the official government gazette, La Gaceta. Given that the adjustment was approved by the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios P...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica is updating its labeling requirements for raw meat and edible organs, extending the rules to products sold both in packages and over the counter. The reform, promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica’s public health system performed 85,046 surgeries from January through September 2026, as the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) stepped up efforts to reduce a long-running backlog. The Caja said the average wai...