One of the objectives of the National Food Plan sponsored by the Costa Rican Chamber of Restaurants (CACORE), the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) and the Government is that people cook and eat traditional Costa Rican dishes. Alejandro Madrigal, Executive Director of CACORE, explained that they will carry out various activities contemplated in the plan, […]
Archives for November 15, 2016
Mexico is asking for Costa Rica’s help to investigate Veracruz former governor
The Mexican Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has requested international legal assistance from Costa Rica to investigate bank accounts, property, companies or persons linked to former governor of Veracruz Javier Duarte. Duarte is involved in a scandalous case of apparent corruption. He is under investigation for crimes of organized delinquency, operations with resources of illicit origin […]
74,343 vehicles already have the “marchamo”
The collection of the car ownership tax (marchamo) began less than 2 weeks ago, and 74,343 vehicle owners have already made the payment of this obligation. According to figures from the collection agency, the National Insurance Institute (INS), at this time the amount paid exceeds ¢ 12.5 billion. The marchamo is composed of several items […]
Most migrants going to the US are from Central America
According to the head of the International Red Cross for Central America, Mexico and Cuba, Juan Pedro Schaerer, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador lead the flow of migrants to the United States, followed by Mexico, Cuba and Haiti. In 2015 more than 400,000 migrants came from those three countries, called the Northern Triangle of Central […]
San Juan de Dios Hospital couldn’t hospitalize 93 people due to collapse in the service
According to Ileana Balmaceda, director of the medical center, San Juan de Dios hospital has been collapsed for about 3 years and due to the demand that they had during the past weekend, the normal collapse also collapsed. It was a situation that exceeded our capacity. At this moment, we have 93 patients who are […]
More than 3-meter high waves are expected in the Pacific
The National Emergency Commission (CNE) said that as of November 14th, the country will have the second highest tide of the year on the national coasts. The CNE received a report from Omar Lizano, Coordinator of the Oceanographic Information Module (MIO) of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), that indicates that the phenomenon is produced […]