RICO’s Q — One might expect President Laura Fernández to welcome the Organismo de Investigación Judicial’s (OIJ) efforts to uncover corruption. Instead, she appears concerned about the recent high-profile raids and arrests targeting leade...

Q COSTA RICA — Ana Elena Pinto Lizano is the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, assuming the role following the dismissal of Manuel Tovar Rivera on September 24. The appointment concludes the transition period that began after Tovar’s departure; he...

Q COSTA RICA — Southwest Airlines will expand its connectivity to Costa Rica in 2027 with new service from Austin, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee, to Guanacaste Airport, as announced by the airport and the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT). The new ...

Q COSTA RICA — Guobin Tam Zhang—a naturalized Costa Rican citizen of Chinese origin wanted by the United States for alleged links to international drug trafficking and money laundering—will remain detained in the maximum-security wing of the Jo...

QCR — Recently, there has been persistent and repeated circulation of social media posts speculating that the U.S. government might revoke the U.S. visa of former president and dual-portfolio minister Rodrigo Chaves. There was even talk of the poss...

By Rosalie Olds —  Atenas seems to be a gathering place for retirees from the United States to live. And no wonder: it is beautiful, the shops and restaurants cater to English speakers, the views are spectacular, and the weather is said to be the ...

Q COSTA RICA — More than 557,000 minors live in poverty in Costa Rica, according to estimates from the study “La deuda de Costa Rica con sus niños, niñas y adolescentes” (Costa Rica’s Debt to Its Children and Adolescents). The study was...

Q COSTA RICA — On Monday, October 6, the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) caucus introduced a partial amendment to the Constitution seeking to exclude sexual offenses from the immunity currently granted to members of the supreme branches of gover...

Q COSTA RICA  — Kathleen Quirós—a cooperative sector leader and the romantic partner of Juan Carlos Tam Cheong, as Goubin Tam Zhang is known, a Chinese-Costa Rican national facing extradition—maintains a close relationship with Freddy Gonzál...

By Angela Fobbs on Substack — Every American citizen living overseas is eligible to vote in the midterms. The process is simple, but timing matters more than anything else. Request your ballot now. Go to VoteFromAbroad.org and submit your request t...