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Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:53:20 +0000
Chinese Pirate Ships Threaten Argentine Waters
Q REPORTS – The threat of Chinese pirates in South America continues. Alarms are now being raised in Argentina, whereas in Chile, authorities have opted to deploy naval and air units to monitor its waters. Approximately 200 ships flying the fla...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:32:00 +0000
Incredible: Venezuela returns to wood stoves due to lack of gas
TODAY VENEZUELA – The wood stove that Jesús Cova and his wife Luisa Cortez used to make soups on weekends with friends is now the only thing they have to cook due to the lack of cooking gas, an increasingly widespread evil in Venezuela, where ther...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:44:32 +0000
Painful New Year: Five dead in the early hours of 2021 in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – In the first 10 hours of the new year, Costa Rica registered five deaths, most of them in traffic accidents. This was confirmed by the Red Cross headquarters, which detailed that the first fatal event occurred at 12:09 am on Januar...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 14:53:22 +0000
End-of-year celebrations threaten to trigger COVID-19 infections and saturate hospitals
QCOSTARICA – January and February will be critical months for medical services in Costa Rica, with an increased risk of collapse in hospital services for patients than ever before during this health crisis. Experts in infectology, epidemiology,...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 14:10:58 +0000
What will Cuba’s new single currency mean for the island?
Q REPORTS – The Cuban government formally ended its dual currency system on Friday, January 1, devaluing its peso for the first time since the 1959 revolution that swept the late Fidel Castro to power. The government has set the exchange rate a...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:10:23 +0000
Plan your return from vacation: Route 27 will enable reversible lane this Sunday afternoon
QCOSTARICA – The Ruta 27 (San Jose – Caldera) will have reversible lanes to San Jose between the Pozón and Ciudad Colón interchanges, during Sunday afternoon. The concessionaire, Globalvia, indicated that they will use this measure with...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:28:00 +0000
Nicaragua gvt promotes massive events fueling the second wave of contagion
TODAY NICARAGUA – While the world tightens restrictions again to stop the second wave of Covid-19 contagion, which has already killed almost two million people and at a time when fear grows for a more contagious strain of the virus, in Nicaragua th...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:09:00 +0000
Reviewing the Year of the Pandemic in Nicaragua
TODAY NICARAGUA – 2020 was marked above all by Covid-19. It became one of those years that will forever mark a before and after, all over the world. Some 80 million Covid infections have now been documented worldwide, and 1.7 million deaths. In Ni...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:35:31 +0000
Police take almost 30 minutes to respond to a call
QCOSTARICA – The response of the police to a call from La Sabana or some other nearby town in the Mata Redonda district lasts 27 minutes and 57 seconds. If the emergency call is issued from Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, the response takes more than a...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:55:01 +0000
San José is the province with the greatest decrease in murders for 2020
QCOSTARICA – Randall Picado, police director of the Fuerza Publica (National Police), confirmed that San José registered 21 fewer homicides compared to 2019. According to Picado, in 2019, there were 173 homicides in the province of San José, ...



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