Archives for October 2016

While some Red Cross members were saving a 25-year-old patient’s life in Tirrases of Curridabat, thieves took the opportunity to steal instruments from the ambulance. The unfortunate incident occurred between Friday night and early Saturday. According to the official report, criminals took the medical equipment and rescuers’ personal belongings. It is not the first time that […]

From Monday, Costa Rica hosts the VI Annual Conference on Freedom Online, aimed at facilitating access to public data over the Internet. The event will last until Tuesday, with the participation of 30 member governments of the Freedom Online Coalition, which “seek freedom on the Internet, respect for privacy and online data transparency”. Manuel González, […]

The Nicaraguan opposition hopes that the rapprochement between President Daniel Ortega’s government and the OAS helps to suspend the elections of November 6th, considered to be a fraud. By achieving this, they could organize new elections in 2017 with transparent and pluralist guarantees. The opposition wants the election process to be free, transparent, with new […]

A native woman died for not receiving timely care. She was very ill and reached a medical center 12 hours too late. But this was the fastest her community could her out of the mountains in Boyei. Other natives set up a stretcher and carried Isel Payán on foot through mud trails to a place […]

Turrialba volcano keeps emanating ash and it is reaching almost a thousand meters high. Eliecer Duarte, expert from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) declared that this is the state of the volcano at the moment, but that they cannot determine when it started because their seismographs are damaged. He affirmed that […]