RICO’s Q — In my follow-up article, “President Fernámdez owes an apology for misleading us,” I give you another example of how Rodrigo Chaves and Laura Fernández keep on deceiving some people. The former president and now curren...

Q COSTARICA — Claudia Dobles, former First Lady and legislator from the Agenda Ciudadana (Citizen Agenda) party, called for the dismissal of Rodrigo Chaves as head of the Ministry of the Presidency due to the insecurity plaguing Crucitas. In contro...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica closed May 2026 with a new all-time record for air arrivals, receiving 1,390,842 international tourists, a 9.4% increase compared to the previous year, according to data from the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT)—C...

Q COSTARICA — If you thought Costa Rica was already well-known in Europe, the numbers confirm that its popularity continues to grow: four renowned Spanish media outlets recently recommended it as a tourist destination. The articles appeared in the ...

Q24N — On Sunday, June 21, Colombians elected Abelardo De la Espriella as their new president in a runoff election, abandoning the left-wing leadership represented by Iván Cepeda and Gustavo Petro. The candidate from the Defensores de la Patria (D...

RICO’s Q (Opinion) Riddle me this. Just two days after President Laura Fernández rolled out her security package, including the new “Ley de Cero Ocio en las Cárceles” (Zero Leisure Time Law in Prisons), to allow prison work, the M...

Q COSTARICA — The U.S. State Department chose not to back recent remarks from Costa Rican President Laura Fernández, who claimed that Nicaraguans have “the form of government they have chosen.” Instead, the department reaffirmed its st...

Q24N — Historic, Europe abandons diplomacy and goes for the total suffocation of Nicaragua’s Ortega-Murillo regime: international criminal trial and the end of free trade. Reports say that Europe has grown tired of lukewarm diplomacy and ster...

Q COSTARICA — The national weather service, Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), forecasts that the El Niño phenomenon will maintain strong intensity during the coming months and will reach a very strong category between October of this year a...

Q COSTARICA — The Administrative Court has put a stop to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) — Costa Rican Social Security Fund, charging retroactive payments to self-employed workers (Trabajadores independientes in Spanish). The rulin...