Q COSTARICA — high taxes added to the cost of airfare were the main reason why the low-cost airline Volaris suspended intraregional flights between Central American nations, including four flights that operated in Costa Rica. This was confirmed by ...

Q COSTARICA — Guanacaste Airport in Liberia (LIR) and the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) announced the arrival of the first charter flight from Poland, marking a new milestone in national air connectivity. Starting in October, Rainbow Tours wi...

Q COSTARICA — After clarifying that a person’s self-identification as a domestic or wild animal does not imply any biological transformation that justifies veterinary intervention, the Colegio de Médicos Veterinarios (College of Veterinary P...

Q COSTARICA — One day after Rodrigo Chaves announced a new presidential veto, opposition members of the Legislative Assembly approved the bill on the execution of sentences in its second debate. The law passed Thursday night in second and final deb...

Q24N (The Guardian) Felix Valdés García was just nine when the revolutionaries came to destroy his family’s trees, a symbol of a sweeping change that would ripple through Cuba for decades. In the late 1960s, as Cuba’s communist regime launched ...

Q COSTARICA — Yesterday, Wednesday, 18 February, the dollar exchange rate reached its lowest value in the Mercado de Monedas Extranjeras (Monex) — Foreign Exchange Market, since 2005, according to the Central Bank. The U.S. dollar surpassed the r...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica could once again hold a referendum similar to the one in 2007, when Costa Ricans voted to join the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Laura Fernández, Costa Rica’s president-elect, confirmed in an exc...

RICO’s Q—This week, the US dollar is at a very low point against the Costa Rican Colón, trading around ¢470–¢485. This is a translated and adapted excerpt from economist Oswald Céspedes Torres’s opinion piece, “Estas son las ví...

Q COSTARICA — The therian trend continues to generate reactions worldwide, and Costa Rica is no exception: one Costa Rican business has already taken a proactive measure across all its locations. Perro Café, a pet supply store, announced on its so...

Q COSTARICA — Legislators have approved reforms to the Ley de Tránsito (Traffic Law) and the Código Penal (Penal Code) aimed at cracking down on drivers under the influence of illicit drugs. The legislation, passed in the second and final debate,...