Q COSTARICA — MOPT authorities indicate that the Ruta 27 at km 56 at Orotina has been reopened with “paso regulado” and only for light vehicles, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles must continue using Cambronero. Machinery contin...

OPINION by Luis Paulino Vargas Solís — What I’ve heard these last few days clearly suggests one thing to me: Laura Fernández has decided to take to its ultimate and most extreme limit the thesis that the Costa Rican population is easily dec...

RICO’s Q — At 86 years old, former president of Costa Rica and former secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, said that for years he lived with a silent fear: not to live to see the end of a l...

Q COSTARICA — A new operation against illegal gold mining on the northern border in Costa Rica ended with clashes between Fuerza Publica (National Police) officers and alleged clandestine miners on Conchuditas hill, located in Cutris de San Carlos,...

Q COSTARICA — Legislator and former first lady (2018-2022), Claudia Dobles, of the Coalición Agenda Ciudadana (CAC), asserted that President Laura Fernández is facing a security crisis inherited from the administration of Rodrigo Chaves. The legi...

Q COSTARICA — The heavy rains are making it nearly impossible to fix the massive sinkhole that swallowed part of kilometer 56 on Ruta 27, near Orotina — and there’s no clear end in sight. The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOP...

Q COSTA RICA — The Heredia Criminal Court sentenced a man named Alfaro Mena to 30 years in prison for five counts of distributing pornography to two underage girls. The decision followed an investigation led by the San Joaquín de Flores Fiscalía ...

Q COSTARICA — Consumers in Costa Rica will face a new blow to their budgets starting next week, when the new adjustments to fuel rates approved by the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP)—regulatory authority—come into effec...

Q24N — Italy’s Court of Cassation has ruled that hotels, bars, and restaurants in Italy are not legally required to provide free tap water to customers. The case stemmed from a lawsuit against a luxury hotel in the Dolomites after a guest was den...

Q24N— The political landscape in Cuba is shifting, and the urgency in “El Carmen”, the private home of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which is also used as a government headquarters, is palpable: seeing how Raúl Castro’s reig...