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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:11:31 +0000
A complex political campaign awaits Costa Rica towards 2022
Political parties may raise ¢19.7 billion colones (US32 million dollars) per campaign. Cracks appear in the solid Costa Rican democracy.

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:07:46 +0000
Costa Rica studies entering the green hydrogen market
QCOSTARICA – Green hydrogen could be an economic opportunity for Costa Rica, while studying the possibility of entering this market, through the energy division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the largest source of development fin...

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:55:55 +0000
Export of services stagnated in 2020, after 10 years of sustained growth
QCOSTARICA – The value of services sector exports, excluding tourism, stagnated last year, after experiencing a 99% increase between 2010 and 2019. This is revealed by a recount of figures requested from the Costa Rican Coalition of Development...

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:46:39 +0000
Britain tightens COVID-19 travel restrictions: 2 tests, quarantine and prison threat
Q TRAVEL – The British Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica confirmed that passengers arriving from countries where worrying coronavirus variants are spreading to pay for 10 days of quarantine in hotels, while rule-breakers will face heavy fines or ...

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:02:49 +0000
20 French tourists tested positive for covid-19 in Costa Rica; six are hospitalized
QCOSTARICA – Twenty French tourists who entered Costa Rica in a group tested positive for covid-19 in our country. Six of them remain hospitalized. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Health this Tuesday afternoon, reported La Nacion. “We d...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:43:12 +0000
Protests and blockades will be back next Monday
QCOSTARICA – Following several months of calm, the Movimiento Rescate Nacional (National Rescue Movement) announced that they will again take to the streets in protest and with blockaded on February 15, in opposition to the agreement the countr...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:34:42 +0000
11 Months later, more than a million students return to the classroom
QCOSTARICA – On Monday, February 8, the 2021 school year began. The Ministerio de Education Publica (MEP) – summoned 1.2 million students of all grades to return to the classroom, after classes were suspended in 2020, 11 months ago, when ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:02:10 +0000
Quarantine in the United States is only a recommendation; in Canada mandatory
Q COSTA RICA TRAVEL – Since last January 26, the United States Government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requires proof of negative COVID-19 test or recovery from COVID-19 for all air passengers arriving in the U.S. Th...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:49:31 +0000
Resident of Isla Caballo: “I didn’t buy supplies because my daughter doesn’t have a teacher, we don’t know anything about the classes.”
QCOSTARICA – Today, Monday, February 8, is the return to school for children across the country. For the average family, it is an exciting time, for others like in Isla Caballo, it’s not so simple. In the weeks and days before the start o...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:08:27 +0000
3 out of 4 women missing in Costa Rica are minors
QCOSTARICA – In 2020 there were more than 900 reports of missing women in Costa Rica. Three out of every four reports were of minors, according to statistical data from the Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ). The data, requested by La Na...



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