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An Uber driver was attacked by taxi drivers

September 26, 2016 by Staff News Writer

About 60 taxi drivers cornered an Uber driver at Esparza, Puntarenas in order to attack him. Last Saturday afternoon, taxi drivers chased him to block the route he was driving, as confirmed by Carlos Hidalgo, a representative from the Public Security Department. Uber driver crashed due to the persecution against him. A few minutes later […]

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Nicaraguans protested in front of their Embassy

September 26, 2016 by Staff News Writer

“Stop dictatorship, we don’t accept the electoral fraud!” Under these premises, a group of at least 30 Nicaraguans protested in front of their Embassy. Protesters are asking the Nicaraguan community in Costa Rica to not vote on November 6th. Let’s not vote, let’s not go out, so that, this election won’t be legitimized. If we vote, they […]

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Turrialba volcano erupted again

September 26, 2016 by Staff News Writer

At about 9:00 pm on Sunday, Turrialba volcano erupted again. It lasted until midnight. Eliecer Duarte, volcanologist at the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) declared that the volcanic activity started at 9:10 pm and it is unknown the ash colum’s height. However, the eruption had a great magnitude. Authorities determined that the […]

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CCSS approved 3,4 billion colones for 2017

September 26, 2016 by Staff News Writer

The Board of Directors from the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) approved a 3.4 billion colones budget for 2017. the CCSS allocated 2.1 billion colones for Health Insurance, 1.1 billion colones for the Disability, Old Age and Death Department (IVM) and 149,667 million colones for the Non-Contributory Pension Department. In addition, more than 145 […]

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A Costa Rican woman at NASA

September 26, 2016 by Staff News Writer

The road to success is not easy. Sandra Cauffman is from Hatillo and she is conquering the stars. She had a difficult childhood and adolescence, attacked by poverty and domestic violence. Nevertheless, this electrical engineer was able to overcome all problems: she used her skills and talents to get ahead and nowadays she is the current […]

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Costa Rica is the largest user of renewable sources in electricity generation

September 26, 2016 by Staff News Writer

Renewables 2016-Global Status Report was published in July by French organization Ren21. It stated that Costa Rica is the country with the largest use of renewable sources in its energy matrix. The study analyzed 2014-2015 data collected by local, electric power institutions and placed Costa Rica over 131 countries from five continents. The five countries with […]

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