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...

RICO’s Q — I heard Paul McCartney’s new song “First Star Of The Night” for the first time last night, and I couldn’t stop thinking about one thing: the rain. Specifically, the rain from Costa Rica — and yes, thatR...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica is once again capturing international attention, becoming the cover star of the June issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). The cover, in both print and digital versions, features a photograph of Punta Catedral, locat...

Q24N — Last week, the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo once again confirmed, without admitting it, one of the practices most denounced by human rights organizations: the forced disappearance of political prisoners. First, they showed Ang...

Q COSTARICA — Brooklyn Rivera, a historic leader of the Miskito people and president of the indigenous Yatama party, died on May 30, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. in a Managua hospital, according to the Nicaraguan government. Brooklyn Rivera had been detained...

Q COSTARICA — Dekra, the German company in charge of vehicle inspections (RTV) in Costa Rica, filed a criminal complaint with the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) in early March against a group of employees at its Ciudad Quesada (San Carl...