Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica transferred 45 tons of seized drugs to the United States for destruction in an operation coordinated by the Ministerio Público (Public Prosecutor’s Office) and the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), with th...

Q COSTA RICA — Two women were arrested on Tuesday, suspected of defrauding individuals interested in learning to drive and obtaining a license by selling driving courses promoted on social media. Agents from the Specialized Section against Scams an...

RICO’s Q — “I don’t have proof, but I have no doubts either.” With that admission, former Costa Rican union leader and legislator Óscar Campos released a video addressed to Attorney General Carlo Díaz, publicly urging the Attorney Gen...

Q COSTA RICA — Weeks before the abrupt dismissal of Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar, the then-minister had already distanced himself from the Minister of the Presidency and Finance, Rodrigo Chaves. This became evident in an interview Tovar gave to El...

Q COSTA RICA — Former Costa Rican foreign minister Manuel Tovar posted the biblical verse “Conocerán la verdad, y la verdad los hará libres” (You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free) on X several days after President Laura Fe...

RICO’s Q —There has been much talk this past week about the dismissal of Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar. The big question on many people’s minds is: what was the real reason for his firing? No one buys the lie that he was dismissed becau...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rican President Laura Fernández began her first official tour of Puntarenas province on Monday with a series of infrastructure announcements for Quepos and other Central Pacific communities. A highlight is the modernization of...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica used its address to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly to openly advocate for Rebeca Grynspan’s candidacy for the organization’s Secretary-Generalship and to raise concerns regarding the politi...

I’ve lived abroad for many years now. In all that time, it never once occurred to me that leaving the U.S. meant I got to check out of its politics too. But I keep running into fellow Americans overseas who see it differently — people who’ve de...

Costa Rica’s digital economy has created opportunities for entrepreneurs to build businesses around highly specialized markets. Instead of competing with large general-purpose e-commerce platforms, niche businesses can focus on a specific audie...