Q COSTA RICA — The caricature published today by CRHoy.com perfectly captures how our former President and current Minister of Finance and Chief of Staff, Rodrigo Chaves, operates. Rodrigo Chaves played it safe with the judicial budget while in the...

Q COSTA RICA — IKEA hasn’t started operations in Costa Rica yet, despite some surprise on social media after the company announced its first three planned locations in Costa Rica. But don’t count on seeing those iconic giant stores. The fir...

RICO’s Q — This is a post from the Costa Rica Pura Vida Lifestyle Facebook page about Americans living in Costa Rica, titled “How to Spot an Expat Who’s Not Happy Being Here.” “You can usually spot them. They’re the expa...

Q COSTA RICA — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck at 1:37 a.m. this Monday, August 24, according to a preliminary report from the Red Sismológica Nacional (RSN) — National Seismological Network. Two minutes later, at 1:39 a.m., the second tremor ...

Q TECH — We still read the internet with an assumption inherited from another era: that behind every page there is a person who wrote it. That assumption has just been refuted by a measurement. The Pew Research Center, the leading research center f...

Q REPORTS — Peru once again looked to the ground with unease on Thursday when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Ayacucho region, reigniting a question that resonates throughout South America: why are large earthquakes such a recurring part of it...

Q COSTA RICA — Laura Fernández announced the cancellation of the meeting scheduled for this Friday with the heads of the Legislative Assembly and the Supreme Court, after the Chief Justice, Orlando Aguirre Gómez, on Thursday, publicly announced t...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica’s ruling party, Partido Pueblo Soberano (PPSO), refused to issue a public condemnation from the Legislative Assembly of statements made by Justice and Peace Minister Gabriel Aguilar, in which he revealed that he has ...

Q24N  — Cameras, drones, and robot dogs are the key elements of China’s surveillance center in Nicaragua that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo will inaugurate this Saturday, August 22, 2026, in Managua. The surveillance ...

Q COSTA RICA — The government of Laura Fernández announced it signed a collaboration agreement with Google to incorporate technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in areas such as education, health, and security, as part of the digital tr...