Q COSTARICA — The possibility of someone attempting to assassinate President Laura Fernández because of her fight against drug trafficking and organized crime doesn’t keep her up at night. In the weekly press conference on Wednesday, doña L...

Q COSTARICA — The decline in tax revenue reported by the Ministry of Finance in recent months has not gone unnoticed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has proposed a series of stringent measures for Costa Rica. These measures include ...

Q COSTARICA  — After several weeks of record lows in the Mercado de Monedas Extranjeras (Monex) — Foreign Exchange Market, the dollar exchange rate has recovered some of its value. Between last Friday and Tuesday, June 2, the dollar increased by...

Q COSTARICA — The Guanacaste Airport in Liberia (LIR), a member of the VINCI Airports network, registered a record number of dogs and cats arriving during the first four months of the year, with 876 pets accompanying their owners on their adventure...

Q COSTARICA — A platform called LEAPCR (Liderando el Emprendimiento de Alto Potencial en Costa Rica) is a newly launched national initiative designed to accelerate startups, attract international investment, and strengthen Costa Rica’s entreprene...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s La Sele (Selección), the national soccer team, dropped a 3-1 decision to Colombia in an international friendly on Monday, June 1, a result that, while not a qualifier, served as a bitter coda to what has been one o...

Q COSTARICA — Legislators Karen Alfaro of the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) emphasized that political violence against women cannot be minimized or normalized. “Because yes, I have experienced it, and I know that participating in politics as...

Q COSTARICA — Thousands of Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, Cubans, and Colombians in Costa Rica will be able to access legal residency and the labor market starting in September, thanks to the new “categoría especial temporal complementaria (speci...

Q COSTARICA — At the second meeting of the Fuerza Élite (Elite Force) team, Costa Rican President Laura Fernández outlined a plan of coordinated actions to combat the rise of organized crime in the country. According to the president, an agreemen...

Q COSTARICA — A vacation photo stop in Costa Rica nearly turned tragic when hikers at a scenic lookout heard what they described as “a very silent hiss” — and then watched a snake strike at them. The bite missed, but commenters said t...