Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica and Panama have been embroiled in a tariff and phytosanitary dispute since 2019, centered on Panama’s blockade of imports of Costa Rican agricultural products, primarily dairy and meat. This disagreement escalated las...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s economic growth is not necessarily reflected in household income or consumption. While the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.7% at the end of 2025, a trend that continued in the first quarter of 2026, with a ra...

Q COSTARICA — “A prison is not a hotel,”  the Minister of Justice, Gabriel Aguilar, told inmates in the high-security wing of the Centro de Atención Institucional (CAI) Terrazas of the La Reforma prison, who continued a hunger strike on Monda...

RICO’s Q — It’s been a few days since I received the following message on my cellular phone. Mine was from the Dirección General de la Policía de Transito (traffic police). Several friends received, on the same Friday, a similar messa...

Q COSTARICA — The Supreme Court of Justice on Monday revoked the appointment of Randall Zúñiga as the director of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), after determining that he committed a very serious offense. “The decision is b...